Fort Denison
Fort Denison, part of the Sydney Harbour National Park, is a heritage-listed former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island located north-east of the Royal Botanic Garden and approximately 1 kilometre east of the Opera House in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: heritage-listed former penal site and defensive facility in Sydney Harbour, Australia
- Also known as: “Muddawahnyuh” and “Muttweai (Aboriginal name for Rocky Island)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Denison and Mrs Macquarie’s Chair.
Fort Denison
Lighthouse
Photo: Benyoch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Denison Light, also known as Pinchgut Light, is an active lighthouse located on top of a Martello Tower at Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island on Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
Mrs Macquarie’s Chair
Photo: Mitch Ames, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mrs Macquarie's Chair is an exposed sandstone rock cut into the shape of a bench, on a peninsula in Sydney Harbour. It was hand carved by convicts in 1810, for Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales.
Government House
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Government House is the heritage-listed vice-regal residence of the governor of New South Wales. It is located on Conservatorium Road in the Sydney central business district, adjacent to the Royal Botanic Garden, and is situated south of the Sydney Opera House, overlooking Sydney Harbour.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirribilli and Sydney.
Kirribilli
Suburb
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Kirribilli is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, Australia. One of the city's most established and affluent neighbourhoods, it is located three kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area administered by North Sydney Council, and sits on Sydney Harbour. Kirribilli House is one of the two official residences of the Prime Minister of Australia.
Sydney
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Sydney is the Harbour City, and is the oldest and most cosmopolitan city in Australia with an enviable reputation as one of the world's most beautiful and livable cities.
The Rocks
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The Rocks is sandstone buildings, history, laneways, culture and Australiana by day, and a busy pub scene by night. It is the historical precinct of central Sydney immediately to the north of the City centre on the western side of Sydney Cove, and where the First Fleet set up their first convict settlement.
Fort Denison
- Categories: military museum, sea fort, Martello tower, and landform
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Fort Denison” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fort Denison”
- Chinese: “丹尼森堡”
- Dutch: “Fort Denison”
- French: “fort Denison”
- French: “Fort Denison”
- Hausa: “Fort Denison”
- Italian: “Fort Denison”
- Italian: “Pinchgut”
- Japanese: “デニソン砦”
- Japanese: “フォート・デニソン”
- Korean: “데니슨 성채”
- Korean: “데니슨성채”
- Korean: “시드니 데니슨 성채”
- Korean: “시드니 데니슨성채”
- Korean: “시드니 포트 데니슨”
- Korean: “시드니 포트데니슨”
- Korean: “포트 데니슨”
- Korean: “포트데니슨”
- Slovenian: “Fort Denison”
- Swedish: “Fort Denison”
- Turkish: “Fort Denison”
- Urdu: “فورٹ ڈینسن”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mrs. Macquaries Chair and Mrs Macquarie’s Point / Yurong.
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