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319: 300: 359: 281: 331: 343: 55: 42: 62: 188:, that largely consisted of rocks with a small beach on the western side. The island was located on the tip of the eastern arm of Sydney Cove and was apparently separated from the mainland at high tide. For a brief period in 1788, this relatively isolated protrusion into 249:
In the period from 1818 to 1821, the tidal area between Bennelong Island and the mainland was filled with rocks excavated from the Bennelong Point peninsula. The entire area was leveled to create a low platform and to provide suitable stone for the construction of
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The area at that time was also strewn with discarded oyster shells from many long years of gathering by the local aboriginal women. Those shells were regathered by the newly arrived convict women and burnt to make
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The existence of the original tidal island and its rubble fill were largely forgotten until the late 1950s when both were rediscovered during the excavations related to the construction of the
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for that reason, though those shells only furnished enough lime to make a single building, the two-storey government house.
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In December 1798, a half-moon battery was constructed at the extreme northern end of the Point, mounted with guns from
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Governor Phillip to build a brick hut for him on the point, giving it its name.
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as it was used to confine the few cattle and horses that had been brought from
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Fort Macquarie Tram Depot shortly before demolition in 1958.
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Bennelong Point and Fort Macquarie during the 1920s.
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Headland

Bennelong Point is located in Sydney
Sydney central business district
33°51′24″S 151°12′54″E / 33.8567°S 151.2150°E / -33.8567; 151.2150
Port Jackson
City of Sydney
Australia
Sydney Harbour
Sydney Opera House
Sydney
New South Wales
Gadigal
tidal island
Port Jackson
Cape Town
Arthur Phillip
First Fleet
lime
mortar
Bennelong
interlocutor
New South Wales
Fort Macquarie
Sydney Cove
Sydney Opera House
Fort Macquarie Tram Depot
Bennelong Point and Fort Macquarie c. 1841.
Bennelong Point, Fort Macquarie & the first Sydney Rowing Club shed c. 1873.
Bennelong Point

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