This street lamp is located at Darling Island, in the inner city suburb of Pyrmont. Darling Island was levelled and joined to the mainland with hewn rock in the late 1840s when it became home to shipbuilding yards, The building on the right is a former wharf warehouse which was redeveloped in the 2000s into an apartment building with spectacular views of Sydney Harbour. Barangaroo and the Sydney skyline including Sydney Tower.
This sunset view across Sydney Harbour towards the Garden Island dockyard is from Yarranabbe Park, in the eastern suburb of Darling Point. The Sydney Harbour Bridge and a couple of sails of the Sydney Opera House provide a silhouetted backdrop.
Rocky Point Island is a rocky outcrop off Balmoral Beach, in the north shore suburb of Mosman. A small bridge links the island with The Esplanade in Hunter Park.
is located in Sydney Harbour, at the junction of Darling Harbour and close to the suburb of Balmain East. The island has been has served as a sandstone quarry, convict stockade, explosives store, police station, fire station, boatyard and film set. This view is from Ballast Point at Birchgrove. The Sydney Harbour Bridge can be seen in the background, behind the island. It was known as Memill by indigenous people and there is considerable debate about how the name was derived. One interpretation is that early settlers thought, if viewed from the air, it may appear to look like a goat.