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Mrs Macquarie’s Chair

Mrs Macquarie's Chair is an exposed sandstone rock cut into the shape of a bench, on a peninsula in . It was hand carved by convicts in 1810, for Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: sandstone rock in Sydney Harbour
  • Also known as: “Mrs Maquarie’s chair”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Government House and Australian Securities Exchange.

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is the heritage-listed vice-regal residence of the governor of New South Wales. It is located on Conservatorium Road in the , adjacent to the , and is situated south of the , overlooking . is situated 700 metres west of Mrs Macquarie’s Chair.

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Ltd is an Australian public company that operates Australia's primary securities exchange, the . is situated 1½ km southwest of Mrs Macquarie’s Chair.

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, also known as the Eye, Westfield Tower and formerly albeit still commonly as Centrepoint Tower, is an observation and that is the tallest structure in , , , as well as the second-tallest observation tower in the Southern Hemisphere. is situated 1½ km southwest of Mrs Macquarie’s Chair.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sydney and The Rocks.

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is the Harbour City, and is the oldest and most cosmopolitan city in with an enviable reputation as one of the world's most beautiful and livable cities.

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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.

Suburb
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is a harbourside, inner-city suburb of , New South Wales, Australia, 1.5 kilometres east of the , in the local government area of the .

Mrs Macquarie’s Chair

Latitude
-33.85971° or 33° 51′ 35″ south
Longitude
151.22257° or 151° 13′ 21″ east
Open location code
4RRH46RF+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13887214
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­bench
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6618741
Wiki­data ID
Q14934922
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Mrs Macquarie’s Chair” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كرسي السيدة ماكواري”
  • Arabic: “كرسي السيدة ماكوري”
  • Cebuano: “Mrs Maquarie’s chair”
  • Chinese: “麥格理夫人椅”
  • Chinese: “麦考利夫人座椅”
  • German: “Mrs Macquarie’s Chair”
  • Korean: “매쿼리 부인의 의자”
  • Korean: “맥쿼리 부인의 의자”
  • Malay: “Mrs Macquarie’s Chair”
  • Swedish: “Mrs Maquarie’s chair”
  • Urdu: “مسز میکوری چیئر”

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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 “Mrs Macquarie’s Chair”. Photo: Mitch Ames, CC BY-SA 3.0.