The Alexandra Canal, a tributary of the Cooks River, is a heritage-listed artificial waterway in southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Alexandra Canal was named after Princess Alexandra, who ma
Alexandra Canal, looking upstream towards the Sydney CBD
Excavation of dugong remains at Shea's Creek in 1896, during construction of the Alexandra Canal. The curator of the Australian Museum, Robert Etheridge, stands centre wearing a top hat. Image: Australian Museum archives
Lifting railway bridge over Alexandra canal (1925). The bridge shown has since been replaced with a fixed span bridge.
The Alexandra Canal in 2010
Tempe, New South Wales
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Tempe is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Tempe is located 9 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of I
Alexandra Canal (New South Wales)
…mi) from the inner Sydney suburb of Alexandria, flowing through the suburbs of St Peters and Mascot, past Sydney's Sydney Airport to the Cooks River at Tempe, which eventually discharges into Botany Bay. The canal is 60 metres (200 ft) wide, increasing to 80 metres (260 ft) at its mouth. and is one of only…
Cooks River at Tempe
Tempe House
Lymerston, built in 1843
Tempe Depot from the Princes Highway in the 1920s