Dawes Point
SuburbHarbourside suburb at the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, adjacent to The Rocks and just north of Sydney's central business district.
Names
Alternate
Ta-ra
Alternate
Maskelyne Point
Dawes Point
by Shirley Fitzgerald, 2008
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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