Blackwattle Bay

Blackwattle Bay is a bay located to the south–east of Glebe Island and east of Rozelle Bay on Sydney Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia. The bay was named in 1788 after the black wattle tree found at the bay, which was used for housing construction.

Blackwattle Bay
Blackwattle Bay Pontoon, Glebe
Blackwattle Bay
Location	Sydney Harbour, New South Wales
Coordinates	33°52′21″S 151°11′20″E
Part of	Sydney Harbour
Primary outflows	Johnstons Bay
Basin countries	Australia
Settlements	Glebe

When first used, the bay was a swampy inlet fed by a creek that ran from its eastern end. Industrial use by tanners and slaughter houses caused the area to be fouled by noxious fumes and there were many complaints by the residents.

An embankment with a bridge was built across the swamp to provide access from Glebe to Pyrmont, being known as Bridge Road.^[1][2] The area to the southeast of the road was filled in becoming Wentworth Park. A coal unloader and other facilities were built on the northwest side of the road and the by now also features the Sydney Fish Market on its northeast side.

See also

• Blackwattle Bay ferry service
• Blackwattle Bay coal wharves and depots
• Sydney Fish Market
• Wentworth Park

References

1. "Pymont Bridge-road". The Evening News. No. 5373. New South Wales, Australia. 5 August 1884. p. 3. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "The Sydney Morning Herald". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. LXXIV, no. 11, 930. New South Wales, Australia. 14 August 1876. p. 4. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

Gallery

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  Bellevue House at waterside end of Leichhardt Street, Glebe, which includes a cafe and restaurant
• 
  Bellevue House, Leichhardt Street Glebe at Blackwattle Bay Park
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  Blackwattle Bay view from end of Cook Street, Glebe Point, across to Sydney Fish Market and Sydney CBD
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  Walter Burley Griffin historic, now re-purposed, incinerator in Sheehy Street
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  View of ANZAC Bridge from dragon boat on Blackwattle Bay
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  Blackwattle Bay, marina area

External links

• "The Boathouse on Blackwattle Bay".
• "Sydney Fish Market".
• Blackwattle Bay entry at dictionary of Sydney
  • Part of Chippendale's grant, 1838. Cadastral drawing showing Cooper's Dam and Black Wattle Swamp.
  • Birds eye view of general wharfage scheme west of Dawes Point as it will appear when completed, Sydney Harbour Trust, 1913.