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4 unusual facts about Macquarie


Lapstone, New South Wales

Lapstone is located 62 kilometres west of Sydney in the local government area of the City of Blue Mountains and is part of the federal electorate of Macquarie.

Macquarie, Australian Capital Territory

Macquarie was gazetted as a division on 22 June 1967 in recognition of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, a former Governor of New South Wales.

National Car Parks

In 2007 National Car Parks Limited was acquired by Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund II.

UCL Law Society

A wide range of other law firms run events as well as professional service firms which in recent years have included KPMG, Macquarie and McKinsey & Company.


Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra

The islands are home to a number of rare plants including a unique genus the Auckland Island Pleurophyllum, and the only subantarctic orchids, Nematoceras dienemum and Nematoceras sulcatum of Macquarie Island.

Awaba

Awaba, New South Wales, a suburb of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, in Australia

Ben Darwin

Whilst he France, Darwin was also in training for his first Iron Man triathlon, which he completed in Port Macquarie in April 2008.

Canberra High School

It is located in the Belconnen suburb of Macquarie and has approximately 600 students ranging from Years 7-10.

City of Lake Macquarie

In excess of 58% of all residents in the City of Lake Macquarie nominated a religious affiliation with Christianity at the 2011 Census, which was slightly higher than the national average of 50.2%.

Clan MacQuarrie

A large portion of the ancient patrimonial property was repurchased by Major General Lachlan Macquarie, long Governor of New South Wales, and from whom Port Macquarie and Macquarie Island in the South Pacific derive their names.

Cruise 1323

Among the Macquarie stars to feature on 5DN in the early years were Australia's first real radio "star", Jack Davey, and Roy Rene and his character "Mo", after whom Australia's entertainment awards, the Mo Awards, are named.

Dora Creek

The merged flows of Dora Creek together with Lake Macquarie reaches the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean at Swansea.

Emanuel Tov

Served as visiting Professor at the Universities of Oxford, Uppsala, Doshisha (Kyoto), Macquarie and Sydney (Australia), Stellenbosch (South Africa), Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), and the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome).

Hadronyche macquariensis

Hadronyche macquariensis, the Port Macquarie funnel-web spider, is a venomous mygalomorph spider, one of a number of Australian funnel-web spiders found in New South Wales.

Henry Fancourt White

White arrived in Port Macquarie in August 1836 and is believed to have established the first vineyard in the Hastings River region of Australia in 1837.

Hobart International Airport

During December 2007, the Tasmanian Government sold the Tasmanian Ports Corporation-owned subsidiary for A$350 million to the Tasmanian Gateway Consortium, a private consortium made up of Macquarie Capital (one of Macquarie Group's infrastructure funds) and Tasmania's public sector superannuation fund, the Retirement Benefits Fund.

Jeff McMullen

He has been awarded three honorary degrees, a Doctorate of Journalism from Central Queensland University a Doctorate of Letters from Newcastle University and a Doctor of Letters from Macquarie University.

Macquarie Fields, New South Wales

Brett Emerton attended Macquarie Fields Public School and Macquarie Fields High School and played for the local soccer club, Gunners United Soccer Club.

Macquarie Shag

The Macquarie Shag is restricted to subantarctic Macquarie Island and the nearby Bishop and Clerk Islets, part of the Macquarie group, 33 km to the south.

Macquarie Street, Sydney

The southern end of Macquarie Street is located at the northern end of Hyde Park, where it meats St James' Road and Prince Alfred Road at Queen's Square, Sydney, to which Phillip Street and King Street also join.

Magdalena Roze

She has also completed a meteorological training course at the Bureau of Meteorology and been invited back to Macquarie University as a Guest Lecturer.

Malcolm Henry Ellis

1942 he was awarded the S. H. Prior prize by the The Bulletin for his John Murtagh Macrossan lectures at the University of Queensland on Macquarie

Mrs Macquarie's Chair

The area around it on Mrs Macquarie's Point is a popular lookout position for the view to the north-west of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Murray River turtle

The specific epithet of the species refers to the turtle's type location: the Macquarie River, it would seem the species was not named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie for whom the river is also named.

During an expedition on the La Coquille, captained by Louis Isidore Duperrey, which visited Sydney, Australia from 17 January - 25 March 1824, they visited Bathurst, and collected the holotype from the Macquarie River.

Neva Carr Glyn

In 1941 they commenced as a husband-and-wife team for the Macquarie network, where they were known as the "sweethearts of radio", playing romantic leads on the Lux Theatre, the premier drama show in the days when radio was king, and the dark-haired imperious Neva was one of the three "Queens of Radio" (with Lyndall Barbour and Thelma Scott).

Neville, New South Wales

Other names previous to Nevile include "No-one swamp" or "Number one Swamp" (the creek that it is on) and Macquarie in reference to Lachlan Macquarie, an early governor of New South Wales and then "Mount Macquarie" which the nearby Mount Macquarie is still called.

Nextgen Networks

The Network was constructed in 2002 and cost around $850 million to construct as a Joint Venture of Leighton Contractors ($140m) and Macquarie Bank using state of the art equipment from suppliers such as Lucent and financed by a consortium including Leighton Holdings, Macquarie Bank, National Australia Bank, Deutsche Bank, UBS Capital and WestLB.

Northern Suburbs

The Northern Suburbs (also known as Central North, Inner Northwest, Macquarie District, Ryde District and Northern District) is the metropolitan area on the northern bank of the Parramatta River in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia east of West Pennant Hills and west of the Lane Cove National Park, south of Hornsby.

Port Macquarie state by-election, 2008

The writ for the Port Macquarie by-election was issued on 29 August, which was also when the rolls closed.

Springwood, New South Wales

In 1815, Governor Lachlan Macquarie and his wife stopped by what Macquarie called a spring.

State Library of New South Wales

Andrew Andersons was the design architect for the Macquarie Street Wing.

Yalda Hakim

Hakim studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Media from 2002 to 2004 at Macquarie University, where she was also a board member of the Macquarie University Union.


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