What Came Before
History
TODO — what history in Sydney are actually worth the time.
3 placesMacquarie Street
Hyde Park Barracks
A convict dormitory of 1819 that became an immigration depot and an asylum, and is now the best museum of any of it.
Sydney Harbour
Cockatoo Island
A convict prison and then Australia's biggest shipyard, on an island in the harbour where you can camp overnight.
Millers Point
Barangaroo Reserve
A container terminal turned back into a sandstone headland, named for a Cammeraygal woman who refused to wear English clothes.