Sydney's Neighbourhoods

Perched at the tip of South Head, Watsons Bay was Sydney's first fishing village and pilot station — and one of its most disaster-stricken coastlines.

Tempe sits on Gadigal and Wangal land along the Cooks River. Its post-colonial history is written in the river — a story of rapid industrialisation and slow ecological collapse.

Before the Harbour Bridge, Milsons Point was a dense residential and industrial suburb. The construction of the bridge erased it almost entirely — but not completely.

The Rocks was the colony's first slum, a sailor's port, a plague quarantine zone, and the birthplace of the union movement — all in the same few streets.