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Endeavour Bridge | |
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 Endeavour Bridge, looking south-east | |
| Coordinates | 33°56′50″S151°10′04″E / 33.947098°S 151.167884°E /-33.947098; 151.167884 |
| Carries | General Holmes Drive |
| Crosses | Cooks River |
| Locale | Mascot,Bayside Council,Sydney,New South Wales, Australia |
| Begins | Mascot |
| Ends | Kyeemagh |
| Named for | HMS Endeavour |
| Owner | Transport for NSW |
| Preceded by | M5 East Motorway |
| Characteristics | |
| No. oflanes | 6 |
| History | |
| Opened | May 1951 (1951-05) |
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TheEndeavour Bridge is aroad bridge that carries theGeneral Holmes Drive (A1) across theCooks River, fromMascot toKyeemagh in theBayside Council local government area insouthernSydney,New South Wales, Australia. The bridge is located adjacent to theriver mouth, where the Cooks River empties intoBotany Bay.
The bridge is maintained byTransport for NSW, anagency of theGovernment of New South Wales.
The Endeavour Bridge was opened to traffic in May 1951 as two, two-lane bridges. The road carriesmotor vehicles and agrade-separated pedestrian footpath.
It was built due to the diversion of Cooks River required by the expansion ofKingsford-Smith Airport. The bridges were constructed before the water flow was diverted beneath them.[1]
In 1963 the two bridges were widened by extending their decks into the area between them, resulting in one six-lane bridge. This upgrade was undertaken in conjunction with the upgrade of General Holmes Drive from four to six lanes, which was the first upgrading of a 'county road' as part of the County of Cumberland Planning Scheme.[2][self-published source]
The Endeavour Bridge takes its name fromHMS Endeavour, the ship commanded byJames Cook, an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. Lieutenant Cook and the crew of theEndeavour were the first recorded European expedition to navigate and map the eastern coastline of Australia. They arrived in nearby Botany Bay in 1770.
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