Tumbalong Park
Riverside urban park of lawns and fountains built over a former nineteenth-century iron wharf.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Tumbalong Park in Sydney opens on Australia Day 1994, as the future King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, is mid-speech on a stage roughly where you're standing, and a twenty-three-year-old protester vaults the fence with a starting pistol in his hand. It then traces the ground beneath your feet back further, to the Eora people who gathered oysters along this shoreline, and the ironworks and wharves that later covered it. Stand near the open lawn as you listen.
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