G'day / Hey
How locals say hello in Sydney
Spring (September–November) or Autumn (March–May)
Australians value informality — don't be too formal. Outdoor culture is huge; beaches are free and public.
On January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip sailed 11 ships into Port Jackson — the finest natural harbour he had ever seen — carrying 1,487 people, more than half of them convicts. The Eora Aboriginal people had lived on these shores for at least 60,000 years. Phillip raised the Union Jack and named the settlement after Thomas Townshend, Lord Sydney. What began as a penal colony became, within a century, one of the most prosperous cities in the Southern Hemisphere.
Sydney Opera House has over 1 million roof tiles and took 14 years to build, finishing in 1973.
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