Bennelong Point
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Bennelong Point is a headland and former island on the shores of Sydney Harbour that is the location of the Sydney Opera House. It forms the eastern flank of Sydney Cove, and has played an important r
Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point and Fort Macquarie c. 1841.
Bennelong Point, Fort Macquarie & the first Sydney Rowing Club shed c. 1873.
Bennelong Point and Fort Macquarie during the 1920s.
Fort Macquarie
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Fort Macquarie was a square castellated battlement fort built in 1798 at Bennelong Point, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on the site where the Sydney Opera House now stands. It was demolished in
Bennelong Point
…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 Fort Macquarie. While the fort was being built, a large portion of the rocky escarpment at Bennelong Point was also cut away to allow a road to be built around the…
Fort Macquarie, 1858-1859, William Hetzer.
Fort Macquarie and Sydney Cove, 1836
Fort Macquarie, Sydney, ca. 1885, (attrib.) Joseph Bischoff