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The Rocks, settled by convicts and
troops in 1788, is one of Sydney’s
oldest neighbourhoods. Rich in THE ROCKS
heritage, many of its old sandstone AND CIRCULAR
QUAY
buildings have been restored and
BOTANIC
house speciality and craft shops. GARDENS AND
THE DOMAIN
CITY
CENTRE
AND KINGS CROSS,
DARLING
DARLINGHURST
The Tank Stream, the HARBOUR AND PADDINGTON
colony’s first water supply,
now runs underground and Locator Map
spills into the quay. See Street Finder, maps 1 & 2
Cahill
Expressway

Circular Quay, originally and more accurately
known as Semi-Circular Quay, was the last and
arguably greatest convict-built structure. Tank
Stream mudflats were filled in to shape the quay,
and sandstone from The Rocks formed the sea wall.

The Wharf Theatre resides on
a pier that took six years to build,
mostly due to the diversion of
labour and materials during
World War I. The theatre was
opened in 1984.

The wharves’ design
The wharves were
completed in 1922. included a rat-proof sea
wall around the port.
This was an urgent
response to the 1900
Imports and exports
to and from the city bubonic plague
were stored in these outbreak, attributed to
wharves until 1977. rats on the wharves.