Darling Harbour, New South Wales
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Darling Harbour is a locality of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia with a large recreational, pedestrian precinct. It is situated on the western edge of the Sydney central business district. The locality extends northwards from Chinatown, along both sides of Cockle Bay to King Street Wharf on the east, and to the suburb of Pyrmont on the west. Cockle Bay is just one of the waterways that makes up Darling Harbour, which opens north into the much larger Sydney Harbour.
The precinct and its immediate surrounds are administered independently of the local government area of the City of Sydney, by a New South Wales state government statutory authority, the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority.
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[edit] History
Darling Harbour is named after Lieutenant-General Ralph Darling, who was Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1831. It was originally part of the commercial port of Sydney, including the Darling Harbour Railway Goods Yard. During the Great Depression, the eastern part of Darling Harbour became known as The Hungry Mile, a reference to the waterside workers searching for jobs along the wharves. By the mid-to-late 1980s it had become largely derelict and was redeveloped as a pedestrian and tourist precinct as an initiative of then New South Wales Minister for Public Works, Laurie Brereton.
[edit] Attractions
The Darling Harbour precinct is home to a number of major public facilities and attractions, including:
- Sydney Entertainment Centre
- Paddy's Market
- Sydney's Chinese Gardens
- Tumbalong Park
- Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
- Sydney Explorer
- Australian National Maritime Museum (featuring museum ships including HMAS Vampire)
- Star City Casino
- Powerhouse Museum
- Sydney Aquarium
- the IMAX theatre
- a number of hotels.
The Darling Harbour precinct is linked to the CBD by the Sydney Monorail.
[edit] Views of Darling Harbour
 Darling Harbour in 1877. |
 Darling Harbour as a working port in the early 1980s. |
 Darling Harbour and Western Distributor freeway under construction in the early 1980s. |
 Darling Harbour as seen from Sydney Tower. |
 Darling Harbour, with the Pyrmont Bridge in the background. |
 Darling Harbour from the Pyrmont Bridge. |
 Darling Harbour showing the Harbourside complex. |
 Spiral Fountain, Darling Harbour. |
[edit] External links
- History of Darling Harbour from official website.
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
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