Rookwood Cemetery
Rookwood Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery in Rookwood, Sydney, Australia. It is the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere and is the world's largest remaining operating cemetery from the Victorian era.
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Sydney, Australia
- Also known as: “New South Wales Garden of Remembrance”, “Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Trust”, “Rookwood General Cemetery”, and “Rookwood Necropolis”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cemetery Station No. 2 railway station and Cemetery Station No. 1 railway station.
Cemetery Station No. 2 railway station
Station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Cemetery Station No. 1 railway station
Ruins
Photo: John Dalton, Public domain.Cemetery Station No. 3 railway station
Station
Cemetery Station No. 3 was a railway station on Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery railway line. It served the Rookwood Cemetery. Cemetery Station No. 3 railway station is situated 460 metres southwest of Rookwood Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Strathfield and Auburn.
North Strathfield
Suburb
North Strathfield is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Strathfield is located 15 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay. North Strathfield is situated 3½ km northeast of Rookwood Cemetery.
Auburn
Suburb
Auburn is a Western Sydney suburb in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Auburn is located 16 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is in the local government area of Cumberland City Council, having previously been the administrative centre of Auburn Council. Auburn is situated 3½ km northwest of Rookwood Cemetery.
South West
Southwestern Sydney is a large residential area to the south and west of Sydney, including the centres of Cabramatta and Liverpool. The district also covers the Canterbury-Bankstown area, but not the Macarthur suburbs.
Rookwood Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Cumberland, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-33.87523° or 33° 52′ 31″ south
Longitude
151.05588° or 151° 3′ 21″ east
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Inception
1868
Open location code
4RRH43F4+W9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Rookwood Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Могілкі Роквуд”
- Belarusian: “могілкі Руквуд”
- Belarusian: “Роквуд”
- Belarusian: “Руквуд (могілкі)”
- Belarusian: “Руквуд”
- Belarusian: “Руквудзкія могілкі”
- Chinese: “六福墳場”
- Chinese: “洛克伍德墓園”
- Danish: “Rookwood Necropolis”
- Dutch: “Rookwood Cemetery”
- Estonian: “Rookwoodi kalmistu”
- French: “cimetière de Rookwood”
- French: “Cimetière de Rookwood”
- Hausa: “Kabari na Rookwood”
- Italian: “cimitero di Rookwood”
- Italian: “Cimitero di Rookwood”
- Japanese: “ルックウッド・セメタリー”
- Polish: “cmentarz Rookwood w Sydney”
- Polish: “cmentarz Rookwood”
- Russian: “Руквуд”
- Russian: “Руквудское кладбище”
- Spanish: “Cementerio Rookwood”
- Swedish: “Rookwood Necropolis”
- Ukrainian: “Кладовище Руквуд”
- Ukrainian: “Руквуд”
- Ukrainian: “Руквудський Цвинтар”
- Ukrainian: “Цвинтар «Руквуд»”
- Ukrainian: “Цвинтар Руквуд”
- Welsh: “Rookwood Necropolis”
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