Goat Island
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.- Type: Islet
- Description: rocky island in Sydney Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as: “Goat Island, New South Wales” and “Goat Island, New South Wales, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Darling Harbour and Sydney Observatory.
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.
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.
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Art gallery
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, formerly the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, is located on George Street in The Rocks neighbourhood of Sydney.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Millers Point and The Hungry Mile.
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.
The Hungry Mile
Neighborhood
The Hungry Mile is the name harbourside workers gave to the docklands area of Darling Harbour East, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in the Great Depression.
The Rocks
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
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.
Goat Island
- Categories: island, locality, and landform
- Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.85239° or 33° 51′ 9″ southLongitude
151.19682° or 151° 11′ 49″ eastElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
4RRH45XW+2POpenStreetMap ID
way 397373570OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Urdu—“Goat Island” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Isla Goat”
- Cebuano: “Goat Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جوات”
- Italian: “Goat Island”
- Japanese: “ゴート島”
- Romanian: “Goat island, new south wales”
- Romanian: “Goat Island, New South Wales”
- Romanian: “Goat Island, Sydney”
- Romanian: “Goat Island”
- Slovenian: “Goat Island”
- Spanish: “Goat Island”
- Swedish: “Goat Island”
- Turkish: “Goat Adası”
- Turkish: “Goat Island”
- Urdu: “گوٹ آئی لینڈ (پورٹ جیکسن)”
- Urdu: “گوٹ آئی لینڈ”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Balmain East and McMahons Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sydney Ship Repair & Engineering and Former Barracks Building.
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