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81 unusual facts about Sydney


1788 in Great Britain

26 January - Eleven ships of First Fleet from Botany Bay led by Arthur Phillip land in what would become Sydney, Australia.

A. T. Anderson

He retired from the military in 1924 and settled in Sydney.

Adam Forster

Adam Forster aka Carl August von Wiarda (5 April 1848 Emden, East Frisia - 11 April 1928 Sydney), was a botanical illustrator and naturalist, who after a lengthy stay in South Africa, eventually emigrated to Australia.

Alan Dargin

He performed on the streets of Sydney, through to performances in front of François Mitterrand and with many symphonies around the world, including the Vienna Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall, as well as many other locations in the United States, Japan, and Europe.

Alex Wodak

Alex Wodak is a physician and the director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, at St Vincent's Hospital, in Sydney, Australia.

Alfalfa House

Alfalfa House Community Food Cooperative Ltd is a not-for-profit food cooperative based in Enmore, Sydney, Australia.

Alfred Spencer Heathcote

There is also a memorial for him at St. James' Anglican Church, Sydney, New South Wales.

Anne Dalgarno

She married Kenneth John Dalgarno, a civil engineer, on 1 July 1937 at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.

Arden Anglican School

The pre-school and primary School are situated in a bushland setting in Beecroft near Beecroft railway station on Wongala Crescent, while the secondary school is located 200 m from Epping railway station, in the suburb of Epping.

Australian Federation Flag

It is still used in Sydney Central Railway Station main hall.

Australian Jewish Historical Society

The NSW chapter maintains extensive archives as well as a research library in Mandelbaum House, a College of the University of Sydney.

Bellevue, Glebe

In 2003 Bellevue came under the jurisdiction of the City of Sydney Council because the suburb of Glebe had been transferred to their control.

It is owned by the City of Sydney Council and listed by the Heritage Council of New South Wales as a property of historical significance.

Bethlehem College, Ashfield

Bethlehem's greatest rival was St. Mary's Cathedral who Bethlehem felt had an unwarranted advantage in that the Carnival marching band was from the Cathedral boys school which often played for St. Mary's.

Blanche Cave

The location has been the site for a number of events, such as, in the early days, annual New Years parties and, much more recently, it was featured as part of the Olympic torch relay for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Brindabella Ranges

Brindabella Valley (in the middle of the range, is 40 km south-west of Canberra and 350 km from Sydney.

CASsat

In 2006, it was being jointly conducted by the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Field Robotics, the University of Technology, Sydney's Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems Group, and the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems.

Datsun Bluebird 910

Earlier in 1983, Fury's Nissan Australia team mate Fred Gibson had driven the Bluebird to its first race victory anywhere in the world when he won two heats and Round 3 of the AMSCAR series at Sydney's Amaroo Park circuit.

Edward William O'Sullivan

He was a most vigorous minister and was responsible for a great development of the tramway system, for the building of many new railways, and for many other public works in connexion with water-supply, roads, rivers, harbours and buildings, including the new Sydney railway station.

Ethel Anderson

She was asked by the rector of St James' Church, Sydney to help decorate the Children's Chapel and designed a mural scheme for it which was executed by the group in 1929.

Express bus service

For example in Sydney, the letters L (as in L90), E (as in E70) and X (as in 610X or X84).

Geoffrey Bardon

Geoffrey Robert Bardon AM (1940, Sydney – 6 May 2003) was an Australian school teacher who was instrumental in creating the Aboriginal art of the Western Desert movement, and in bringing Australian indigenous art to the attention of the world.

George Goyder

In 1848, at the age of 22, Goyder followed his sister and brother-in-law, George Galbraith McLachlan, to Sydney, New South Wales.

Gordon Parker

He is the Founder of the Black Dog Institute, an organization based at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, New South Wales, that focuses on the treatment of mood disorders, in particular clinical depression and bipolar disorder.

Gunning, New South Wales

The town is served by the daily NSW TrainLink XPT service that operates between Sydney Central station and Melbourne Southern Cross Station.

Helen Zerefos

Zerefos is also a tireless charity worker for the Ageing Research Centre at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital.

Heritage College Cooranbong

Heritage College Cooranbong is one of four Christadelphian Heritage Colleges in Australia; the other three are located in Perth, Adelaide and Sydney.

Hillsong Church Kiev

Hillsong Church Kiev (formerly Kiev Christian Life Centre) is the Kiev-based offshoot of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia.

International Terminal railway station

International railway station, Sydney, Australia (Also known as International Terminal)

Ivor Crapp

In 1914 he travelled to Sydney as the Western Australian representative umpire at the Australian National Football Council Carnival.

James Darcy Freeman

He died on 16 March 1991, St Vincent's Hospital at the age of 83 and is buried in the crypt of St Mary's Cathedral.

Jelly Blubber

In Sydney waters, the Jelly Blubber's large bell is a creamy white or brown colour, but farther north in Australia it is usually blue.

John Allworth Clark

John Allworth Clark died on Tuesday 14 June 1932 at his home, 233 Stanmore Road, Stanmore, Sydney, New South Wales.

John Lazar

Born in Edinburgh, Lazar came to Sydney in 1837 where he worked as an actor and theatre manager.

KIIS

KIIS 106.5, a contemporary Australian radio station that broadcasts to the Greater Sydney area

Laurie Aarons

He was born in Sydney, son of Sam Aarons, a leading member of the Communist Party and a veteran of the Spanish Civil War.

Lee Dong-gun

On 20 March 2008, Lee's 19 year old brother, a student at Sydney University, was fatally stabbed in an incident involving two groups of men beneath the World Tower in Sydney, Australia.

Loyola Senior High School, Mount Druitt

An Ignatian school in the tradition of St Ignatius of Loyola, it is situated in Sydney's Western Suburbs in a seven hectare lightly wooded, landscaped site which received the Sulman Award from the Royal Institute of Architects for its design.

Margaret Flockton

Margaret Lilian Flockton (29 September 1861 Sussex - 12 August 1953 Sydney), was an Australian botanical artist, particularly noted for her illustrating of "The Forest Flora of New South Wales" (some 300 plates), "A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus" (88 plates), and the genus Opuntia, all by the botanist and forester, Joseph Henry Maiden.

Metrosideros excelsa

The pōhutukawa has been introduced to other countries with mild-to-warm climates, including south-eastern Australia, where it is naturalising on coastal cliffs near Sydney.

Michael Bialoguski

He joined the Australian Army, served as an orderly at an army hospital, and was discharged in order to continue his medical studies at the University of Sydney.

Mosman Preparatory School

Mosman Church of England Preparatory School is an all-boys school in Mosman, a suburb of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

Nino, Princess of Mingrelia

Princess Nino's only surviving portrait, produced by an unknown artist during her St. Petersburg years, was purchased in 2010 by the Australian entrepreneur Victor Greenwich Dadianov, a scion of the Dadiani dynasty and Honorary Consul-General of Georgia in Sydney, at one of the auctions of Europe, and was presented by him to the Dadiani Palaces Museum in Zugdidi, Georgia.

Own This Club

It was directed by Silo Collective in Sydney and shows scenes with Marvin walking through Kings Cross station and Green Square while the ACE dance group are dancing behind him.

Pacific Broadcasting Services Fiji

Its Technical Infrastructure and engineering support is based in Sydney, Australia.

Peter Dodds McCormick

He began his involvement with Sydney's St Stephen's Church as a stonemason, working on the now demolished Phillip Street Church (where Martin Place now stands).

Playback Theatre

As an immediate result of a teaching and performing tour by some of the members of the original Playback Theatre Company to Australasia in 1980, companies were founded in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in Australia, and Wellington, New Zealand.

Rhacophorus vampyrus

The first specimen was discovered in 2008 by Jodi Rowley of the Australian Museum at Sydney, Australia, and her student Le Thi Thuy Duong from Ho Chi Minh City University of Science.

SCENE Music Festival

The festival features mostly alternative music and has hosted such groups such as Sydney, Alexisonfire, A Northern Chorus, Billy Talent, Boys Night Out, Cauterize, City and Colour, Ligeia, Crush Luther, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Johnny Truant, Lights, Magneta Lane, Raising the Fawn, The Trews, and The Black Lungs.

SEAGas pipeline

It connects Adelaide's gas supply to Melbourne and Sydney's, thus increasing the security of natural gas supply to Adelaide.

Sémillon

Sémillon is widely grown in Australia, particularly in the Hunter Valley north of Sydney, where for a long time it was known as "Hunter River Riesling".

Shawn Atleo

He holds a Master of Education in Adult Learning and Global Change (MEd) from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.

Six o'clock swill

They raided hotels in Liverpool before travelling by train to Sydney, where one soldier was shot dead in a riot at Central Railway station.

Skopos market insight

SKOPOS Market Insight is a global market research agency and communications research company with offices based in London, Cologne, Berlin, Paris, Johannesburg and Sydney.

Smooth toadlet

Sydney is the collision point of the 3 species, however around Sydney there is only Smooth Toadlets, just north of Sydney there are Dusky Toadlet and just south of Sydney there are Tyler's Toadlets, the Smooth Toadlet occurs throughout much of the Tyler's Toadlet and Dusky Toadlets range.

Sound of Hope

There is the Chinese side, known as The Sound of Hope Radio Network, and the Western side which is led by the English language SOH Network, headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

South Australia–Victoria border dispute

In November 1846 the Colonial Secretary's Office directed surveyor Henry Wade to proceed from Sydney to the disputed territory to define a "Boundary for Police Purposes".

St Leo's Catholic College

St Leo's Catholic College is a secondary Catholic college in the North Shore suburb of Wahroonga in Sydney, Australia.

St Scholastica's College

St Scholastica's College was founded by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 1878, on a site in Pitt Street where Sydney's Central Railway Station now stands.

St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

Initially conceived as a branch of the Sydney institution of the same name the hospital was intended to be a charitable institution, which was hoped would help bolster Melbourne's minimal health care.

Striped rocket frog

The striped rocket frog, Litoria nasuta, or in its native range known as the rocket frog, occurs mostly in coastal areas from northern Western Australia to around Gosford in New South Wales at its southernmost point, with a disjunct population occurring further south at the Sydney suburb of Avalon.

Sydney City

City of Sydney, the municipal council responsible for central Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Nova Scotia, a community in Canada formerly a city (1904–1995)

Sydney Deamer

He had a distinguished career in civilian life as a journalist in England and Australia and as a newspaper editor for the Sydney Daily Telegraph under the new proprietor Sir Frank Packer between 1936 and 1939.

Ted Theodore

Theodore was elected to the House of Representatives for the seat of Dalley in Sydney at a by-election in 1927.

Teen Queens

All three formed the group in 1990 with the intention of getting a TV program off the ground about a girl group in 1960s Sydney.

The Eight Lancashire Lads

Brothers Richard, Eric and Clem White went to Sydney, Australia in the 1910s and formed theatre companies including Edgley and Dawe.

The Million Dollar Hotel

In an October 2000 press conference in Sydney, before the Australian release of the film, Mel Gibson said, "I thought it was as boring as a dog's ass."

The Rodney

In Nov. 1895, Rodney lost her figurehead in a gale in the English Channel, while en route from Gravesend to Sydney.

Tyler's toadlet

It has a solid distribution south of Jervis Bay Territory and there are some populations between Jervis Bay and Sydney, there are records for this species north of Sydney, however similarities with other Uperoleia frogs may have led to mis-identification.

Walter Marks

As a result of an inheritance in 1912, he was able to partly finance the building of his chambers, the twelve-storey Culwulla Chambers in Castlereagh Street, Sydney, the tallest building in central Sydney until after World War II.

Waterfall railway station

For the railway station in Sydney, NSW, Australia, see Waterfall railway station, Sydney

Way to Go!

The actual filming location was a decayed ballroom in a derelict building adjacent to Sydney's Central Railway Station.

White woman of Gippsland

There were two women aboard, the wife of the Captain and a woman sailing to Sydney to join her fiancé, Mr Frazer.

White-footed rabbit-rat

The white-footed rabbit-rat (Conilurus albipes) is an extinct species of rodent, which was originally found in woodlands from Adelaide to Sydney, but became restricted to south-eastern Australia.

Whitechapel Bell Foundry

Many churches across the world have bells cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, including: Armenian Church, Chennai; St Dunstan's, Mayfield; St Dunstan's, Stepney; St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside; St. Michael's Church, Charleston; St Stephen's Anglican Church, Newtown and St Philip's Church.

William Dexter

His wife came out from England at the end of 1854, and in March 1855 they together opened a gallery of arts and school of design in Bathurst Street, Sydney.

William Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson spent much of the 1890s in Sydney and Western Australia, working as an expert in mining.

William Romaine Govett

He was appointed assistant surveyor in the Surveyor-General's Department of New South Wales on 10 July 1827 and reached Sydney in December 1828.

Wodonga railway station

Eventually the NSW system was extended southwards from its originating terminus in Sydney to Albury, but the terminals of the broad and standard gauge systems remained separated by the Murray River and a few miles of its surrounding swampy flatlands and billabongs.

Zhan Shi Chai

Kin Foo, the Chinese wife who accompanied Zhan from China, died in 1871, and Zhan later married Catherine Santley, a Liverpudlian whom he met in Sydney, Australia.


1994 Australian Indoor Championships

The 1994 Australian Indoor Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney in Australia and was part of the Championship Series of the 1994 ATP Tour.

A Divided Heart

A Divided Heart is an Australian film directed by Denny Lawrence, released in 2005, portraying a complex romantic conflict set in wartime Sydney, 1942, involving two sisters and an American army officer.

Battle Scars

When Fiasco was in Australia for Supafest he came to Sebastian's Sydney studio to record the rap.

Belanglo State Forest

The Belanglo State Forest is located south of Berrima in the Southern Highlands, three kilometres west of the Hume Highway between Sydney and Canberra.

Bernard d'Ascoli

In 2000 he was a special guest of the Sydney Olympic festivities, appearing at the Opera House both as recitalist and soloist with the Sydney Symphony.

Brian Tse

While in Sydney, he became influenced by the cartooning style of Michael Leunig, a Melburnian who was (and remains to this day) one of the most popular and critically acclaimed cartoonists in Australia.

CBD Rail Link

CBD Relief Line, a similar proposed rail link in Sydney, Australia

CDS Global

The company employs over 2,500 individuals worldwide, with sites located on three continents; Australia (Sydney), Europe (Market Harborough; Brighton), and North America (Boone, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Harlan, Iowa; Tipton, Iowa; West Des Moines, Iowa; Wilton, Iowa; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Prescott, Arizona; New York City; Markham, Ontario; and Montreal).

Corey Gameiro

On 3 January 2014, Gameiro scored his debut goal for Sydney FC, scoring against Adelaide United with a header from a Nikola Petković free kick.

Cronulla railway station

Cronulla railway station is a railway station on the Sydney Trains network, a short distance from Cronulla Beach of Sydney, Australia, on the Pacific Ocean.

Crowdy

Crowdy Bay National Park is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 271 km northeast of Sydney.

Eban Hyams

Earning a scholarship to attend Terra Sancta College in Sydney, Eban was named captain of his school and was introduced to basketball, eventually being selected to the New South Wales Combined Catholic Colleges (NSW CCC) state tryouts.

Garry Bradbury

Garry Bradbury is an Australian electronic musician active in Sydney's experimental music scene since 1979 where he was an early member of the pioneering post punk / industrial band Severed Heads, from 1981 to 1985, appearing on the albums: Since the Accident, City Slab Horror, Blubberknife and Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live In The Past.

Genesian Theatre

The Genesian Theatre is an amateur theatre company based in Sydney, Australia, named in honour of Saint Genesius.

Gerardo Ribeiro

He serves on the faculty of the Meadowmount School of Music, and in January 2006 was invited to the Australian String Academy Summer School, held in Sydney.

Greg Florimo

Florimo began playing as a junior in the North Sydney district for Willoughby at age seven before playing for McMahons Point, Crows Nest and North Sydney Brothers.

Harry Lourandos

Lourandos was born in Sydney in 1945, to migrant parents from the island of Ithaca in western Greece.

History of Wagga Wagga

The town was the starting point of the "Kangaroo March", one of a series of snowball marches conducted in New South Wales during the war where groups of recruits would march toward Sydney and appeal to men in the towns along the route to join them and enlist in the Australian Imperial Force.

John Busby

In June 1825 Busby made an interesting report on the state of the water-supply of Sydney, and suggested that a supply could be drawn from "the large lagoon in the vicinity of the paper mill" to a reservoir in Hyde Park from which it would be distributed throughout the city by pipes.

Johnny Wardle

Apart from 5 for 79 and 3 for 51 on a flood-soaked pitch at Sydney, he had little to do.

Julia Hargreaves

She finished 24th at the 2011 La Coruna CSI5 Grand Prix held in La Coruna, Spain; finished 13th at the 2011 Wien Stadthalle CSI4 Table A held in Wien Stadthalle, Austria; finished first at the 2011 Sydney Royal CSI1 held in Sydney, Australia; and finished eighth at the 2011 Zuidwolde CSI2 held in Zuidwolde, The Netherlands.

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix is a 2006 live album by Sophie B. Hawkins recorded at The Triple Door (Seattle, USA) and The Basement (Sydney, Australia).

Liverpool Street

Liverpool Street, Sydney, an important thoroughfare in the central business district of Sydney, Australia

Mark Scatterday

His other commissions and premiers include works by composers such as Steven Stucky, David Maslanka, Jorge Liderman, Verne Reynolds, Christopher Theofanidis, John Fitz Rogers, David Liptak, Robert Morris, Jeff Tyzik, Joseph Turrin, Kyle Blaha, Jacob Bancks, James Matheson, Steven Burke, Sally Lamb, Sydney Hodkinson, and David Borden.

Max Cullen

He began his career as a painter and sculptor after training at Sydney's National Art School in 1956 and later studied at the Julian Ashton Art School with Brett Whiteley in 1959.

Mount Ritchie

Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1970-71, after A. Ritchie, curator of fossils at the Australian Museum, Sydney, a member of the VUWAE party that discovered important sites of fossil fish in this Skelton Neve area.

Norman Cowans

For these five days, Cowans was the star of English cricket, and had sent the series to Sydney for the deciding Fifth Test, which ended in a draw.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Pel-Air

Pel-Air Aviation Pty Ltd (trading as Pel-Air) is an airline based in Mascot, Sydney, Australia.

Richard Van Gelder

Among his colleagues in the Mammal Department at the AMNH were Karl Koopman, Marie A. Lawrence, Guy Musser, and Sydney Anderson.

Ricky Nixon

The plan was criticised by many Gaelic football officials and players, including Sydney's Tadhg Kennelly.

Ruth Milkman

In 1986, she was a visiting lecturer in American labor history at the University of Warwick in Coventry, United Kingdom, a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil in 1990, a visiting research scholar at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia in 1991, and a visiting research associate at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris in 1993.

Ryde Bridge

The Ryde Bridge, which is in fact two bridges, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that crosses the Parramatta River, linking the suburb of Ryde in Sydney's Northern Suburbs to the suburb of Rhodes in Sydney's Inner West.

Servant Girl Annihilator

William Sydney Porter, better known as the short story writer O. Henry, was living in Austin at the time of the murders.

Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip

Justice John Walpole Willis was appointed the first Resident Judge by Governor George Gipps, largely to provide some measure of peace within the judicial establishment, Willis having been engaged in a number of acrimonious conflicts with his fellow judges in Sydney.

Sydney Boys High School

Also nearby, but not associated with Sydney Boys and Girls High Schools, are Fox Studios Australia, the Sydney Cricket Ground, and the Sydney Football Stadium.

Sydney Devine

Sydney Devine (born Cleland, Lanarkshire 1940) is a Scottish singer whose career began with a television appearance in 1953 at the age of thirteen, developed during eight years touring with the White Heather Group.

TALC

Transport and logistics centre, a national policy and practice research centre based in Sydney, Australia

Television broadcasting in Australia

The CEO of TVS Sydney, Laurie Patton, is the Secretary and represents ACTA on the Federal Government's Digital Switchover Taskforce Industry Advisory Group.

The Screaming Tribesmen

After relocation to Sydney, and a number of line-up changes the band settled on its most successful lineup of Medew, ex-Radio Birdman & The Hitmen guitarist Chris Masuak, bass player Bob Wackley & drummer Warwick Fraser (ex-Feather & Hoi Polloi) who replaced Michael Charles after the recording of the Date With A Vampyre EP.

Thomas Gascoyne

Three days later he competed in the tandem races at Madison Square Garden with his partner Sydney Jenkins.

Thomas New

He was born near Studley, Warwickshire and arrived in Sydney on the Troubadour in June 1843 with his parents Cornelius and Rebecca New and his sister Emily.

TSS Fairstar

On 19 May 1964 the Fairstar left Southampton with a full complement of passengers, mostly migrants, on her maiden voyage to Sydney, Australia, joining older company vessels Fairsky, Fairsea and Castel Felice already operating in the same role.

Weightlifting in India

Karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney, which made her the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.

William Wedge Darke

Darke brought a wooden caravan from Sydney and set up camp with his family near Robert Russell's wood and daub hut on the south side of the Yarra River in what is now central Melbourne.