Cockle Bay
Cockle Bay is a small bay in inner-city Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the western edge of the Sydney central business district. Cockle Bay is one of the bays in Darling Harbour, which opens into the much larger Sydney Harbour.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Darling Harbour and National Maritime Museum.
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.
National Maritime Museum
Museum
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The Australian National Maritime Museum is a federally operated maritime museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney. After considering the idea of establishing a maritime museum, the federal government announced that a national maritime museum would be constructed at Darling Harbour, tied into the New South Wales state government's redevelopment of the area for the Australian bicentenary in 1988.
HMAS Vampire
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HMAS Vampire was the third of three Australian-built Daring-class destroyers serving in the Royal Australian Navy. One of the first all-welded ships built in Australia, she was constructed at Cockatoo Island Dockyard between 1952 and 1959, and was commissioned into the RAN a day after completion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pyrmont and City Centre.
Pyrmont
Suburb
Photo: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY 3.0.
Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney.
City Centre
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
The Sydney City Centre was where Governor Arthur Phillip first raised the British flag on Australian soil in January 1788, the earliest site of European settlement in Australia.
Ultimo
Suburb
Cockle Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Category: body of water
- Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-33.8714° or 33° 52′ 17″ southLongitude
151.20051° or 151° 12′ 2″ eastElevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
4RRH46H2+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 11529853967OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Cockle Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cockle Bay (luuk sa Awstralya, State of New South Wales, lat -33,87, long 151,20)”
- Cebuano: “Cockle Bay”
- Swedish: “Cockle Bay (vik i Australien, New South Wales, lat -33,87, long 151,20)”
- Swedish: “Cockle Bay, Sydney”
- Turkish: “Cockle Bay”
- Turkish: “Cockle Koyu”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Sydney Wharf and Chinatown.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Darling Harbour Marina and Pyrmont Bridge.
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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 “Cockle Bay”. Photo: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY-SA 2.5.