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Events, festivals, museums, parks, lodging, shopping, sightseeing tours, and more.
Visitor attractions in Sydney :
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Sydney Aquarium
Sydney Aquarium is a public aquarium located in
the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the eastern
(city) side of Darling Harbour to the north of the Pyrmont Bridge.
The aquarium contains a large variety of Australian aquatic life, displaying
more than 650 species comprising more than 6,000 individual fish and other sea
and water creatures from most of Australia's water habitats.
Its key exhibits are a series of underwater, see-through, acrylic glass tunnels
where sharks swim above visitors, and recreation of a Great Barrier Reef coral
environment.
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Artspace Sydney
The Artspace Sydney Visual Arts Centre is a
leading international residency-based contemporary art centre, housed in the
historic Gunnery Building in Woolloomooloo, fronting Sydney Harbour in Sydney,
Australia. Devoted to the development of new ideas and practices in contemporary
art and culture, since the early 1980s, Artspace has been building a critical
context for Australian and international artists, curators and writers.
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Bondi Beach
Bondi Beach (pronounced "BOND-eye", or /'bɒndaɪ/)
is a popular beach and the name of the surrounding suburb in Sydney, Australia.
Bondi Beach is located 7 kilometres east of the Sydney central business
district, in the local government area of Waverley Council, in the Eastern
Suburbs. Bondi, North Bondi and Bondi Junction are neighbouring suburbs.
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Fox Studios Australia
Fox Studios Australia is a major movie studio
located in Sydney, Australia, occupying the site of the former Sydney Showground
at Moore Park. Since opening in May 1998, the studio has been involved in the
production of a number of blockbusters, including The Matrix, Moulin Rouge!,
Mission: Impossible II, Star Wars Episode II, Star Wars Episode III and Superman
Returns.
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Jamberoo Action Park
Jamberoo Action Park is a water park and small
theme park at Jamberoo, New South Wales. Located just over an hour south of
Sydney, the theme park is non-stop entertainment with all the thrills and spills
you can handle.
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Luna Park Sydney
Luna Park Sydney (originally Luna Park Milsons
Point) is a historical amusement park, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Luna Park is located at Milsons Point, on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour.
The heritage-listed park first opened in 1935, although its 70-year history
includes multiple closures, changes of ownership, legal battles, and community
action in both support of and opposition to Luna Park's operation.
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Manly Waterworks
The Manly Waterworks is a water park in Manly,
New South Wales, Australia. It was operated jointly with the now defunct Mt
Druitt Waterworks. The Manly Waterworks features in the movie BMX Bandits
starring Nicole Kidman during which an escape is staged in one of the
waterslides.
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Oceanworld Manly
Oceanworld Manly, or often just Oceanworld, is
a small, multi-level, aquarium in Manly, New South Wales, Australia (near the
entrance to Sydney Harbour). Its three levels hold many different exhibits
including sharks, tropical fish, invertebrates and reptiles.
One of Oceanworld's most famous displays is a 110m shark tunnel through a 5.5
million litre aquarium which holds over 5,000 fish, sharks, stingrays and sea
turtles. The shark species include the critically endangered grey nurse shark,
wobbegongs, Port Jackson sharks and blind sharks.
In addition to the range of marine species, the aquarium is also home to a range
of reptiles and invertebrates such as crocodiles, inland taipans, coastal
taipans, tiger snakes, brown snakes, death adders, lace monitors, and funnel-web
spiders. One display showcases the five most venomous snakes in Australia.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia,
are the largest of three major botanical gardens open to the public in Sydney,
along with the Mount Annan Botanic Garden and the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden.
The park, managed by the same trust as The Domain adjoining it, is free to
access and open every day of the year.
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Star City Casino
Star City Hotel and Casino is located in
Pyrmont, Sydney, and is the second largest Casino in Australia. It Overlooks
Darling Harbour and features two gaming floors, eight bars, seven restaurants,
three hundred and fifty one hotel rooms and one hundred and thirty serviced and
privately owned apartments. It has Sydney's premier theatre, the 2000 seat Lyric
Theatre.
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Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue
performing arts centre on Bennelong Point in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who in 2003
received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour.
The Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close
to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It sits at the north-eastern tip of the Sydney
central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour
(Sydney Cove and Farm Cove), and neighboured by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Contrary to its name, the building houses several separate venues rather than a
single opera theatre, the two main venues, the Opera Theatre and the Concert
Hall, being housed in the two larger shells. The Sydney Opera House is a major
presenting venue for Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre
Company and the Sydney Symphony, as well as hosting many touring productions in
a variety of performance genres, and is a major tourist attraction. It is
administered by the Sydney Opera House Trust, under the New South Wales Ministry
of the Arts.
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Sydney Wildlife World
Sydney Wildlife World is a zoo in the city of
Sydney, Australia officially opened in September 2006. It is located on the
shores of Darling Harbour and is attached to Sydney Aquarium.
The Sydney Wildlife World is unusual for a zoo in that it is entirely enclosed
and air-conditioned. The AUD$45 million development features a one-kilometre
walkway which snakes through 7000 square metres of enclosures. The enclosure
features around 6000 native animals.
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Taronga Zoo
Taronga Zoo is the city zoo of Sydney, New
South Wales, Australia. Officially opened on October 7, 1916, it is located on
the shores of Sydney Harbour in the suburb of Mosman. Taronga Zoo is managed by
the Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales under the trading name "Taronga
Conservation Society" along with Dubbo's Taronga Western Plains Zoo.
Divided into eight zoogeographic regions, Taronga Zoo is home to over 2,600
animals on 21 hectares, making it one of the largest of its kind.
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The Entertainment Quarter
The Entertainment Quarter is an entertainment
precinct in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The Entertainment Quarter
sits beside Fox Studios Australia in the suburb of Moore Park, located 3
kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district and is part of
local government area of the City of Sydney.
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