Cockatoo Island

Island

Largest island in Sydney Harbour, between Birchgrove and Woolwich.

Names
Alternate
Wareamah

Cockatoo Island

by Patrick Fletcher, 2011

 

Cockatoo Island has changed dramatically from the uninhabited rocky island it was when Europeans arrived. Reshaped, levelled, cleared and used for a range of social and industrial purposes, the island is now a historic landmark, administered by the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, and open to the public.
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