Convention

Convention is a railway stop in Sydney, New South Wales. Convention is situated nearby to Darling Harbour Woodward Water Feature, as well as near the grassland Cockle Bay Lawn.

Places of Interest Nearby

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. National Maritime Museum is situated 360 metres north of Convention.

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. HMAS Vampire is situated 410 metres northeast of Convention.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pyrmont and Ultimo.

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.

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.

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.

Convention

Type: Railway stop
Categories: transport stop and transportation
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-33.8726° or 33° 52′ 21″ south

Longitude

151.19805° or 151° 11′ 53″ east

Open location code

4RRH45GX+X6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 262241878

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=stop

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