Thursday 13th February, 2014. Cockatoo Island, Watson's Bay, Bondi Beach and Walk, Sydney, NSW, Australia After breakfast we caught the bus to Circular Quay where we caught a ferry to Cockatoo Island. Cockatoo Island, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on an island located at the junction of the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers, in Sydney Harbour. At 17.9 hectares (44 acres) it is the largest of several islands that were, in their original state, heavily timbered sandstone knolls. Cockatoo Island rose to 18 metres (59 ft) above sea level and is now cleared of most vegetation. Called Wa-rea-mah by the Indigenous Australians who traditionally inhabited the land prior to European settlement. Between 1839 and 1869, Cockatoo Island operated as a convict penal establishment, primarily as a place of secondary punishment for convicts who had re-offended
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