Circular Quay

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QUESTION: Where was the settlement made?
ANSWER: At the head of Sydney Cove on the Tank Stream, where the semi-Circular Quay now stands.
—Questions and answers from Miss Johnson’s Geography with Useful Facts for the Junior Classes in Schools, 1859.


If you like dramatic cityscapes, the approach to and departure from Circular Quay will be for you.

The first shot is more recent, the second one is earlier, but the name 'Circular Quay' a contraction of Miss Johnson's correct name, was around as early as 1836, in a newspaper called The Australian. Very few Sydneysiders can explain now where the name came from, so you can bedazzle them. The design was the work of one Captain Barney.

Once the place where passenger and cargo ships were loaded and unloaded, it has long been the place where harbour ferries loaded and unloaded local passengers.

















If you go away from the harbour, under the Cahill Expressway and the rail line, you will be on Alfred Street, and facing the old Customs House. Walk over and in, because in front of you is the best-ever map of Sydney.

Kids from 5 to 95 love this model of the city from Cicular Quay south, all under tough walk-on glass. Entry is free, and lots of people lie down to get closer. Photos won't do it justice, because the glass is now scratched, but it would be a shame not to walk in and have a look.




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