Fitzroy Dock and cranes, Cockatoo Island.

            Fitzroy Dock built 1850-1870 is outstanding as the only remaining dry dock built using convict and prisoner labour and it is one of the largest convict-era public works surviving in Sydney. 
The dock was the earliest graving dock commenced in Australia and was one of the largest engineering projects completed in Australia to that time. Convicts excavated 580,000 cubic feet of rock creating 45 foot (14 metre) sandstone cliffs that extended around the site just to prepare the area for the dock, a huge technical achievement in itself.

Cockatoo Island is a convict industrial settlement and pre and post-federation shipbuilding complex. It is important in the course of Australia’s cultural history for its use as a place of convict hard labour, secondary punishment and for public works, and its history and contributions to the nation as a dockyard.

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Taken on: May 20, 2011

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Camera: Canon PowerShot A30, f/8.0, 1/100 sec, 5.4mm (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot A30
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Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	5.4mm
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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