Garden Island, New South Wales
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Garden Island is an inner-city locality of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located to the north-east of the Sydney central business district, north of the suburb of Potts Point.
Garden Island is the site of Fleet Base East. The base is officially known to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as HMAS Kuttabul, after the converted ferry HMAS Kuttabul which was sunk near Garden Island in Sydney Harbour by a Japanese midget submarine in May 1942. Garden Island is the principal east coast naval base of the RAN, and home port to many of the RAN's major ships.
[edit] History
Garden Island was originally an island in Sydney Harbour, but extension of the base and the construction of a dry dock in the channel between the island and the mainland have resulted in its connection to the mainland shore at Potts Point. The wharves of the naval base now stretch the length of the eastern side of Woolloomooloo Bay, from the suburb of Woolloomooloo to the end of the original island.
[edit] External links
- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
- Island's tourism birth a date with history SMH
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