Ballast Point

Ballast Point is a 2.6-hectare urban park located in Birchgrove at the tip of the Balmain Peninsula in the Inner West Council local government area in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Photo: Maurice van Creij, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Darling Harbour and Goat Island.

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.

Goat Island

Islet

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Goat Island is a heritage-listed island located in Port Jackson, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located northwest of the Sydney central business district, Goat Island is about 300m wide in a north–south direction and 180m long in an east–west direction; and covers an area of 5.4 hectares.

Balmain ferry wharf

Pier

Photo: BL2002, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Balmain ferry wharf is located on Sydney Harbour in the Sydney suburb of Balmain. It is served by Sydney Ferries Cockatoo Island services operating between Circular Quay and Cockatoo Island, with some peak Parramatta River services operating to Chiswick.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Berry Island and Harbour Islands.

Berry Island

Locality

Berry Island is a locality in Wollstonecraft on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was originally one of Sydney's Harbour Islands, but it is now connected to the mainland by a constructed isthmus.

Harbour Islands

Photo: Coekon, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Harbour Islands are Sydney's best kept secret. There are several in the harbour that you can visit to explore, for a picnic, or just to take in the history and the view.

Millers Point

Suburb

Photo: Gobeirne, CC BY 2.5.

Millers Point is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is on the north-western edge of the Sydney central business district, adjacent to The Rocks and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney.

Ballast Point

Type: Cape
Description: point in Australia
Categories: point and landform
Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-33.85195° or 33° 51′ 7″ south

Longitude

151.19021° or 151° 11′ 25″ east

Open location code

4RRH45XR+63

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11513501907

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=cape

GeoNames ID

2207785

Wikidata ID

Q4851541

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Ballast Point” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Ballast Point (punta)”
Cebuano: “Ballast Point”
Swedish: “Ballast Point (udde)”
Swedish: “Ballast Point”
Turkish: “Ballast Point”
Turkish: “Ballast Yarımadası”

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Balmain East and Birchgrove.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Ballast Point Park and Balmain Wharf, Yeend St.

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