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.

Photo: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY-SA 2.5.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Darling Harbour and HMAS Vampire.

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.

HMAS Vampire

Photo: Saberwyn, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

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.

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

Photo: J Bar, CC BY 3.0.

Ultimo is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is adjacent to the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney west of the Darling Harbour area, and is bordered by Pyrmont to the north, the Sydney CBD and Chinatown/Haymarket to the east, Broadway and Chippendale to the south, and Glebe and Wentworth Park to the west.

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″ south

Longitude

151.20051° or 151° 12′ 2″ east

Elevation

10 metres (33 feet)

Open location code

4RRH46H2+C6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11529853967

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

8192853

Wikidata ID

Q5139623

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Satellite Map

Discover Cockle Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

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 Darling Square.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Darling Harbour Marina and Pyrmont Bridge.

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