Mrs Macquarie's Chair
Lady Macquarie's Chair | |
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 Mrs Macquarie's Chair, near the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney | |
  Mrs Macquarie's Chair | |
| Coordinates: 33°51′34.08″S 151°13′19.93″E / 33.8594667°S 151.2222028°E | |
| Location | The Domain, near the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Part of | The Domain |
| Offshore water bodies | Port Jackson |
| Geology | Sydney sandstone |
Mrs Macquarie's Chair (also known as Lady Macquarie's Chair[1]) is an exposed sandstone rock cut into the shape of a bench, on a peninsula in Sydney Harbour. It was hand carved by convicts in 1810, for Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales. The peninsula itself was known to the Gadigal as Yurong Point,[2][3] and is now widely known as Mrs Macquarie's Point, and is part of The Domain, near the Royal Botanic Gardens.[4][5]
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- ^ Irish, Paul; Goward, Tamika. "Yurong Cave and Yurong Midden". Barani: Sydney's Aboriginal History. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
- ^ Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia. (1898), Science of man and journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia, G. Watson, retrieved 3 July 2019
- ^ "Fountains, sculptures and memorials in the Royal Botanic Garden and the Domain". The Royal Botanic Garden & Domain Trust. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
- ^ "Domain Walk". The Royal Botanic Garden & Domain Trust. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.