Customs House

Customs House is a memorial in North Sydney Council, New South Wales. Customs House is situated nearby to Scout Place, as well as near Circular Quay railway station.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Darling Harbour and Customs House.

Darling Harbour

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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.

Customs House

Community center

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Customs House is a heritage-listed museum space, visitor attraction, commercial building and performance space located at Circular Quay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Circular Quay railway station

Railway station

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Circular Quay railway station is a heritage-listed elevated railway station that is located on the City Circle line, serving the Circular Quay precinct of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sydney and The Rocks.

Sydney

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

The Rocks

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The Rocks 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.

City Centre

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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.

Customs House

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “The first Collector of Customs was appointed in 1827 and the Department has occupied this site sine 1845. After Federation the collection of customs duties passed from State to Federal control”
Category: historic site
Location: North Sydney Council, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-33.86201° or 33° 51′ 43″ south

Longitude

151.21103° or 151° 12′ 40″ east

Operator

Royal Australian Historical Society

Open location code

4RRH46Q6+5C

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11524296857

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Customs House Library and Scout Place.

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