Dawes Point

Headland or Point

Headland on the western side of Sydney Cove.

Names
Alternate
Tar-Ra

Dawes Point

by Shirley Fitzgerald, 2008

 

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Known to its Cadigal traditional owners as Ta-Ra, the land that became Dawes Point was Sydney's first observatory and weather station, run by William Dawes. It was fortified to a Greenway design and remained government land. In 1925 part of the fort was demolished for the Sydney Harbour Bridge and most of the land became Dawes Point Park.
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