SYDNEY 2000
In
the year 2000 the olympic games will be held in sydney which is the capital
of nsw in Australia. Sydney
is the oldest and largest Australian city; situated on the southern shore
of Port Jackson on the east coast of Australia.
Sydney is named after Thomas Townshend, 1st
Viscount Sydney, who was the British Home Secretary at the time of the
settlement's foundation.Sydney is a beautiful
city despite the incongruity of modern skyscrapers in the central business
district with the colonial public buildings and handsome terraces.
Sydney Harbour Bridge, completed in 1932,
was at that time the largest single-arch bridge in the world. The
curve of the arch stands 135 m above sea level and the 49-m wide deck carries
dual railway tracks, an eight-lane highway, a bicycle track, and a pedestrian
footpath. The bridge, linking north Sydney
with the southern and eastern suburbs, became a symbol of the harbourside
city but its iconic significance was, if not eclipsed, certainly equalled
with the opening of the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point in 1973,
now one of the most recognizable edifices in the world.
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