The Big Dig

The Big Dig is an archaeological site in Sydney, New South Wales. The Big Dig is situated nearby to the hostel Sydney Harbour YHA, as well as near the museum Susannah Place.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Darling Harbour and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

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.

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Art gallery

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The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, formerly the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, is located on George Street in The Rocks neighbourhood of Sydney. Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is situated 200 metres east of The Big Dig.

Susannah Place

Museum

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Susannah Place is a heritage-listed former grocery store and workers' cottages and now historic house museum located at 58–64 Gloucester Street in the inner city Sydney suburb of The Rocks in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Rocks and Millers Point.

The Rocks

Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.

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.

Millers Point

Suburb

Photo: Gobeirne, CC BY 2.5.

Millers Point is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is on the north-western edge of the Sydney central business district, adjacent to The Rocks and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney.

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 Big Dig

Type: Archaeological site
Also known as: “Cumberland / Gloucester Streets Archaeological Site”
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-33.86017° or 33° 51′ 37″ south

Longitude

151.20694° or 151° 12′ 25″ east

Open location code

4RRH46Q4+WQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 444228569

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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