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
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 serving the Sydney suburb of Balmain. It is served by Sydney Ferries Cockatoo Island services operating between Circular Quay and Cockatoo Island, with some peak F3 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
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
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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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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