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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Mrs Macquaries Rd. Maps 1 & 2.
Tel 9231 8111. Tours: Tel 9231
8125. Open Mar & Oct: 7am–
6:30pm; Apr & Sep: 7am–6pm;
May & Aug: 7am–5:30pm; Jun &
Jul: 7am–5pm; Nov–Feb: 7am–
8pm. 7 8 10:30am daily, 1pm
Mon–Fri (not Jan & Feb).
∑ rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au
Transport
@ Sydney Explorer, 200, 441.
g Circular Quay. Martin Place,
Macquarie Wall St James, Circular Quay.
In 1810, work began on
this 290-m- (950-ft-) long
wall intended to separate
the convict domain from
the town’s “respectable
Class of Inhabitants”. Only
a small section remains
standing today.
Choragic Monument (1870)
This replica of the marble monument
of Lysicrates in Athens was sculpted
in sandstone by Walter McGill.
. Australia’s First
European Farm
It is claimed that some Middle
Garden oblong beds follow
the direction of the first fur rows
ploughed in the colony in 1788.
National Herbarium of
New South Wales
More than 1.2 million of the dried
plant specimens stored here
document biological diversity.
The charting of new plants
0 metres 200
provides essential information for
0 yards 200 conservation decision making.
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