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The Garden Island Naval Precinct is a heritage-listed naval base and defence precinct located at Cowper Wharf Roadway in the inner eastern Sydney neighbourhood of Garden Island, New South Wales, Australia. The precinct was built from 1856. It includes the HMAS Kuttabul naval base, formerly known as HMAS Penguin.
Today, Garden Island forms a major part of the RAN's Fleet Base East. It includes active dockyards (including the Captain Cook Graving Dock), naval wharves and a naval heritage and museum precinct. Approximately half of the major fleet units of the RAN use the wharves as their home port.
Garden Island is on the southern shore of Port Jackson, the proper name for the harbour at Sydney, Australia.It is second promontory east of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.. The Royal Navy used the island from February 1788, just a month after Australia's colonisation by the First Fleet, as a garden for provisioning first HMS Sirius and later the fleet based in the port.
HMAS Kuttabul is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base located in Potts Point in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Kuttabul provides administrative, training, logistics and accommodation support to naval personnel assigned to the various facilities that form Fleet Base East, the main operational navy base on the east coast of Australia.
Garden Island – the largest historic naval area on Sydney Harbour, with use going back to the founding of the colony in 1788. Greatly expanded during World War II, it now comprises major dockyard facilities run by a civilian operator, the naval wharves used by major fleet units of the RAN, various training facilities under the control of HMAS ...
Naval facility Purpose State/Territory Location Period Notes Fleet Base East: Fleet base, depot, dockyard New South Wales: Sydney: 1788–present: Includes HMAS Kuttabul, HMAS Waterhen, Garden Island dockyard & berthing facilities Fleet Base West (HMAS Stirling) Fleet base, depot Western Australia: Garden Island: 1978–present
Garden Island ferry wharf is located on the southern side of Sydney Harbour. It serves the Royal Australian Navy's Heritage Centre, Garden Island. The wharf is no longer serviced by public or private ferries and is not open to the public. Fences prevent access from the wharf to the Garden Island Defence Precinct.
The US Navy worked with the Royal Australian Navy, Fleet Base East, that had its own base in Sydney, HMAS Kuttabul Naval Base) at Potts Point, Garden Island Naval Precinct at Garden Island and HMAS Waterhen Naval Base-HMAS Penguin Naval Base) at North Shore. [5] [6] The other large US Naval Advance Bases in Australia were at Naval Base Brisbane ...