The Rocks
SuburbSuburb located north of Sydney's central business district on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, characterised by a precinct of restored nineteenth-century buildings which are a major tourist attraction.
Names
Aboriginal
Tallawoladah
The Rocks
by Grace Karskens, 2008
Called Tallawoladah by the Cadigal, The Rocks was the convicts' side of town after Europeans arrived, and kept some of its unruly, disreputable air into the twentieth century. Residents' action saved it from destruction in the 1970s, and now a tourist attraction, The Rocks miraculously escaped both high-rise and grid.
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