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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Maurice van Creij, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Darling Harbour and Yurulbin Park.
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.
Yurulbin Park
Park
Photo: Amitch, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Yurulbin Park is a 0.61-hectare public open space located at the end of Yurulbin Point on the Balmain Peninsula in the suburb of Birchgrove in the Inner West Council local government area in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Sydney Observatory
Museum
The Sydney Observatory is a heritage-listed meteorological station, astronomical observatory, function venue, science museum, and education facility located on Observatory Hill at Upper Fort Street, in the inner city Sydney suburb of Millers Point in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
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
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″ southLongitude
151.19021° or 151° 11′ 25″ eastOpen location code
4RRH45XR+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 11513501907OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2207785Wikidata ID
Q4851541
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ballast Point”. Photo: Maurice van Creij, CC BY 3.0.