Blackwattle Bay
Blackwattle Bay is a bay located to the south–east of Glebe Island and east of Rozelle Bay on Sydney Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia. The bay was named in 1788 after the black wattle tree found at the bay, which was used for housing construction.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Sydney Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as: “Black Wattle Swamp Cove” and “Blackwattle Cove”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Darling Harbour and Anzac Bridge.
Darling Harbour
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Darling Harbour is a leisure and entertainment precinct, in central Sydney. It extends to Pyrmont, Ultimo and the business district of Barangaroo, and contains The Star and Pyrmont Bay, including Harris St.
Anzac Bridge
Photo: Gregwmay, Public domain.
The Anzac Bridge is an eight-lane cable-stayed bridge that carries the Western Distributor across Johnstons Bay between Pyrmont and Glebe Island, on the western fringe of the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia.
Sydney Tower
Sydney Tower, also known as the Sydney Tower Eye, Westfield Tower and formerly albeit still commonly as Centrepoint Tower, is an observation and telecommunications tower that is the tallest structure in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, as well as the second-tallest observation tower in the Southern Hemisphere.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pyrmont and Glebe Point.
Pyrmont
Suburb
Photo: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY 3.0.
Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney.
Glebe Point
Neighborhood
Photo: JohnsonL623, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port Jackson, commonly known as Sydney Harbour, is a natural harbour on the east coast of Australia, around which Sydney was built. It consists of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers.
Glebe Island
Neighborhood
Glebe Island was a major port facility in Sydney Harbour and, in association with the adjacent White Bay facility, was the primary receiving venue for imported cars and dry bulk goods in the region until 2008.
Blackwattle Bay
- Categories: bight and body of water
- Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.87231° or 33° 52′ 20″ southLongitude
151.18832° or 151° 11′ 18″ eastOpen location code
4RRH45HQ+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 911567251OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2175393Wikidata ID
Q4923568
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Blackwattle Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Blackwattle Bay”
- Cebuano: “Blackwattle Cove (luuk sa Awstralya)”
- Chinese: “卑力屈度灣”
- Chinese: “黑合歡灣”
- Chinese: “黑荊灣”
- Hebrew: “בלקוואטל ביי”
- Hebrew: “בלקוואטל קוב”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ בלאקוואטל”
- Slovenian: “Blackwattle Bay”
- Swedish: “Blackwattle Bay”
- Swedish: “Blackwattle Cove (vik i Australien)”
- Turkish: “Blackwattle Koyu”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Glebe and The Hill.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Blackwattle Bay Marine and Glebe Rowing Club.
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