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Glebe Island

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Rocky outcrop bounded by White Bay to the west and north and Johnstons Bay to the east and south and linked to Balmain by causeway in 1840s. It was the site of abattoirs from 1850s to 1912, then levelled and used as wharves.

Johnstons Bay

Bay between Rozelle and Pyrmont first spanned by the Glebe Island Bridge, and later the Anzac Bridge.

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White Bay

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Bay in Sydney Harbour adjacent to Rozelle and Balmain, dominated by the former White Bay Power Station.

Balmain

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Harbourside suburb on a peninsula west of central Sydney, named after the First Fleet assistant surgeon, with a working-class and industrial history. From the 1960s, as industry waned, it became popular with professional and business people who wanted to live close to the city.

Glebe

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Inner-city suburb named for its original status as Anglican church land granted to Richard Johnson, chaplain of the first fleet in 1790. The Glebe Point area became fashionable in the nineteenth century, while the southern part of Glebe became a working class district.