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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
house speciality and craft shops. GARDEN AND
BOTANIC
THE DOMAIN
CITY
CENTRE
The Tank Stream, the KINGS CROSS AND
DARLINGHURST
colony’s first water supply,
now runs underground Locator Map
See Street Finder, maps 1 & 2
and spills into the quay.

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 Theatres reside
on a pier that took six years
to build, mostly due to the
diver sion of labour and
materials during World War I.
The theatres opened in 1984.

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

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