Darling Harbour

Darling Harbour is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. There is a large recreation area with many hotels, restaurants, shopping centers, theaters, museums and entertainment centers, which is proved in large part as a pedestrian zone.

Darling Harbour is located just west of the center of Sydney on both sides of Cockle Bay. It stretches from Chinatown to the south up to the level of Darling Point in the Pyrmont Bay to the east and the dock, King Street Wharf in the west. The Cockle Bay is just one of the numerous bays that belong to the much larger bay Darling Harbour.

History

Darling Harbour was named after Ralph Darling, who was from 1825 to 1831 Governor of New South Wales. Originally Darling Harbour was part of the commercial port of Sydney with ship berths, numerous warehouses, loading facilities, factories and private rail connection.

During the Great Depression in the 1930s, acquired the northern part of Darling Harbour and Millers Point ansgrenzende district, which is known as Barangaroo today, sad notoriety as The Hungry Mile. This goes back to the many port workers, who sought in the area for jobs. In memory of this time in 2009 a part of the Hickson Road was officially renamed the Hungry Mile.

In the 1960s, the area around Darling Harbour began to degenerate. Many docks and warehouses were no longer used and fell into disrepair. Since this eyesore was produced in the cityscape near the city center and could be seen from the offices in the skyscrapers, the desire came on after a redesign and new use of port facilities.

At the beginning of the 1980s the docks were demolished and started reconfiguring and the redevelopment of the neighborhood. The first sections were completed in the late 1980s. The completion of all facilities and buildings in the further phases lasted until the late 1990s.

Since 2007, working on the redesign of the northern border district of Barangaroo, similar to Darling Harbour will be transformed from a port district in a business and recreation area near the city center of Sydney.

Overlooking Darling Harbour, 1900

Darling Harbour during the renovation in the 1980s

View from Centrepoint Tower Darling Harbour during the redesign

Today

Darling Harbour is one of the largest recreational and leisure district of Sydney, which is very popular with locals and tourists. In Darling Harbour there are numerous attractions in the city. These include the Harbourside shopping Centre, the Sydney Entertainment Centre, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, the Sydney Aquarium, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney Wildlife World and the LG IMAX cinema, which has the largest screen in the world.

By June 2013, Darling Harbour Sydney Monorail was by that flew around the harbor basin, connected to the city center of Sydney. Five of the eight stations of the monorails were on the grounds of Darling Harbour.

Another important connection to the public transport system is linked by ferry from Sydney, which operate a jetty at the northern end of Darling Harbour. From there, with links to Circular Quay, an important transport hub of Sydney, as well as other suburbs of the city.

Gallery

Australian National Maritime Museum

Harbourside Shopping Centre

Views of the Harbourside Shopping Centre of the Pyrmont Bridge

Cockle Bay Wharf at Darling Harbour

Darling Harbour

Darling Harbour at night

View from Harbourside on Cockle Bay and Sydney