HMAS Waterhen
HMAS Waterhen is a Royal Australian Navy base located in Waverton on Sydney's lower north shore, within Sydney Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia. Constructed on the site of a quarry used to expand Garden Island in the 1930s, the location was used during World War II as a boom net maintenance and storage area.- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Military installation
- …is operated by Royal Australian Navy
- …dates from 1962
- Description: Australian naval base
- Address: 51 Balls Head Road
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Waverton railway station and Wollstonecraft railway station.
Waverton railway station
Railway station
Waverton railway station is a heritage-listed suburban… Waverton railway station is situated 460 metres northeast of HMAS Waterhen.
Wollstonecraft railway station
Railway station
Wollstonecraft railway station is a suburban railway… Wollstonecraft railway station is situated 1 km north of HMAS Waterhen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Berry Island and North Sydney.
Berry Island
Locality
Berry Island is a locality in Wollstonecraft on the…
Crows Nest
Suburb
Crows Nest is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
HMAS Waterhen
- Category: naval base
- Location
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Latitude
-33.84071° or 33° 50′ 27″ south
Longitude
151.19382° or 151° 11′ 38″ east
Open location code
4RRH555V+PG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=military
OpenStreetMap feature
military=base
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“HMAS Waterhen” goes by many names.
- French: “base navale de Waterhen”
- French: “Base navale de Waterhen”
- Japanese: “HMAS ウォーターヘン”
- Turkish: “HMAS Waterhen”
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