Mrs Macquarie’s Chair
Mrs Macquarie's Chair is an exposed sandstone rock cut into the shape of a bench, on a peninsula in Sydney Harbour. It was hand carved by convicts in 1810, for Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales.
- Tourist attraction
- …lies at an elevation of 18 metres (59 feet)
- …is also known as “Mrs Maquarie’s chair”
- Description: sandstone rock in Sydney Harbour
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Mrs Macquarie’s Chair
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Latitude
-33.85971° or 33° 51′ 35″ south
Longitude
151.22257° or 151° 13′ 21″ east
Open location code
4RRH46RF+42
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity = bench
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historic = memorial
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tourism = attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Mrs Macquarie’s Chair” goes by many names.
كرسي السيدة ماكواريArabic
كرسي السيدة ماكوريArabic
Mrs Maquarie’s chairCebuano
麥格理夫人椅Chinese
麦考利夫人座椅Chinese
매쿼리 부인의 의자Korean
맥쿼리 부인의 의자Korean
Mrs Macquarie’s ChairMalay
Mrs Maquarie’s chairSwedish
مسز میکوری چیئرUrdu
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