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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| City | Sydney | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 2.6 km2 (1.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Elevation | 11 m (36 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 9,911 (SAL2021)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2029 | ||||||||||||
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Rose Bay is a harboursideeastern suburb ofSydney, in the state ofNew South Wales, Australia. Rose Bay is located seven kilometres east of theSydney central business district, in thelocal government areas ofMunicipality of Woollahra (on its western side towards the bay) andWaverley Council (east ofOld South Head Road).
Rose Bay has views of both theSydney Opera House and theSydney Harbour Bridge together. Lyne Park abutsSydney Harbour on its west.Shark Island is located in Sydney Harbour, just north of Rose Bay.
The original name of the land now known as Rose Bay is Banarung, Dharag Language. Rose Bay was named after the Right HonourableGeorge Rose, who was joint Secretary to the British Treasury withThomas Steele, after whom Steel(e) Point atNielsen Park was named. The name Rose Bay was used as early as 1788 byCaptain John Hunter.[3]HMASTingira, named after anAboriginal word for 'open sea' was moored in Rose Bay from 1912 to 1927. It was used to train over 3,000 Australian sailors, many for service inWorld War I. There is a small park on the Rose Bay waterfront which commemoratesTingira.[4]
From 1938, seaplane flights to and from London began and terminated in Sydney Harbour on Rose Bay, making it Sydney's first international airport, and what is nowRose Bay Water Airport. On 14 September 1945, nineCatalinaflying boats landed and moored at the Rose Bay wharf, repatriating Australianprisoners of war who were survivors ofJapanese camps. Sydneysiders looked on in silence, aghast at the emaciated state of the returning soldiers.[5]
The Wintergarden Cinema was a landmark building which housed theSydney Film Festival from 1968 to 1973, but which was demolished to make way for exclusive apartments in the late 1980s.[6]
Rose Bay has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
Rose Bay Cottage and also known asSalisbury Court, located in Salisbury Road, was built in 1834 by the important colonial architect,John Verge, for James Holt who, at the time, managed the 'Cooper Estate'. When built, it was the only house on the 'Estate', with the possible exception of Henrietta Villa, Captain Piper's previous home onPoint Piper. The house was built as a single-storey residence of about 225 square metres (2,420 sq ft) with averandah, over a similar sized stone cellar. Adjacent to it was an earlier structure (c. 1820s) which was apparently adopted as a kitchen. The house was significantly enlarged by sympathetic additions between 1837 and 1850 and the kitchen wing was joined to the main house forming a courtyard. By the end of this period the house had more than doubled in size. From 1861 until 1911, the house was usually known as Rose Bay Lodge; it has also been known as Salisbury Court. It was surrounded by extensive gardens embellished by five working fountains fed from a water source above on the slopes of Bellevue Hill which later fedWoollahra House, built in 1883 on Point Piper. One of the fountains still remains. Prominent occupiers of the house includedSir Daniel Cooper,Walter Lamb andJohn Hay – they were all noted businessmen and parliamentarians. In 1911, the property, then of 1.6 hectares (4 acres), was sub-divided and surrounded by other houses. During the next fifty years the old house suffered extensive unsympathetic additions including a second storey over the original Verge cottage which converted the house to twelve flats. It has subsequently been restored according to strict conservation standards and the unsympathetic additions removed. The house is listed on theNew South Wales State Heritage Register.[9]
Fernleigh Castle was built in 1892,[10] incorporating part of a sandstone cottage that dated back to 1874. Aptly named, it resembles a castle with its turrets, castellated towers and square Norman tower. Its sandstone structure contains thirty rooms and a number of stained-glass windows.Fernleigh Castle is on the (now defunct)Register of the National Estate.[10][11]
A fig tree,Ficus superba var. henneana, planted inc. 1827, located in the former castle grounds is listed on theNew South Wales State Heritage Register.[7]
This police station originally started life as the gatekeeper's lodge in the estate ofWoollahra House, a nineteenth-century mansion that has long gone.[10] The surviving building was designed in aVictorian Classical Revival style which is attributed to 'Hilly and Mansfield' and which probably tells us what Woollahra House looked like. It was built in 1871 and features rendered walls punctuated with pilasters. Sympathetically restored, it is now on the (now defunct)Register of the National Estate.[10]
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Rose Bay is home to twoindependent schools:Kambala (1887), anAnglican,day andboarding school for girls fromPre-school to Year 12; andKincoppal – Rose Bay (1882), aCatholic, day and boarding school with aco-educational primary school and girls-onlyhigh school. Kincoppal – Rose Bay was originally Rose Bay Convent but amalgamated with Kincoppal Elizabeth Bay in the late 1970s to become "Kincoppal – Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart". Theprep school campus ofCranbrook School (1918) is also located in the suburb.[12] McAuley Primary School is a Catholic school for Kindergarten to Year 6. It was opened in 1967 on the site that had been a Christian Brothers High School from 1935 to 1966.[13]
Public schools in the suburb areRose Bay Secondary College (2004) and Rose Bay Public School (1891). Rose Bay Secondary College was formed by the amalgamation ofVaucluse High School and Dover Heights High School. Originally these schools were known as Vaucluse Boys High, Dover Heights Boys High and Dover Heights Girls High. The cost of improving the public school facilities at Rose Bay was linked to the sale of the campus atVaucluse. Despite a surge in enrolments and an unmet demand for public high school places in the area, the Vaucluse campus was sold in February 2007 by theGovernment of New South Wales for $30M to become aseniors community development site.[14]
TheConvent of the Sacred Heart overlooks the bay and can be seen from many vantage points around Sydney Harbour. The site was originally occupied by a house called Claremont, which was built in 1852. The convent incorporated this house when it was built in 1888. Designed byJohn Horbury Hunt, the new building was of five storeys in height and made of sandstone that was quarried at the site. It included a Gothic Revival Chapel and is regarded as one of Hunt's most successful creations. It now houses theKincoppal-Rose Bay school for girls. The building has a Federal heritage listing.[15]
TheRose Bay ferry wharf provides access to theWatsons Bay ferry services. There are frequentTransdev John Holland buses to and from the centre of Sydney viaKings Cross as well as other points and out toWatsons Bay and the coast. Seaplane operators offer scenic flights over Sydney itself as well as a number of excursions along the coast as well as some scheduled services to Newcastle with aircraft operating out of the seaplane terminal near Rose Bay ferry terminal.
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In 1902 a reserve named in honour of SirWilliam Lyne was reclaimed from tidal sand flats at Rose Bay. In 1904 harbour baths were built in a design by the architectThomas Tidswell.[16] The baths have since been removed.
Since 1908, Rose Bay has been represented in one of Australia's most popular sporting competitions, theNational Rugby League, by theSydney Roosters, officially known as the Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club.
There are two golf courses located in Rose Bay. Woollahra Golf Club is a public 9-hole course andRoyal Sydney Golf Club is a private 27-hole championship course, not open to the public.
The 3rd Rose Bay Rovers group is an activeRovers group based in the Scouts Hall located in Vickery Avenue, opposite Woollahra Sailing Club.
Rose Bay is home to theWaverley Amateur Radio Society, Australia's longest continuously licensed amateur radio club. The club meets on a regular basis at the Scouts Hall located in Vickery Avenue.
Rose Bay beach (also known locally as Dog Beach) is at the far eastern end of the bay and as the name suggests is a popular beach for dog owners.[17] Despite its popularity, Rose Bay beach is not always safe to swim at due to the pollution issues surrounding the beach.[18]
At the2021 census, there were 9,911 people living in Rose Bay. 54.8% of people in Rose Bay are Australian-born, compared to 66.9% for Australia. Of the immigrants, most are from South Africa (9.3%), then England (5.6%), New Zealand (2.1%), China (2.1%) and Israel (1.7%). Of Rose Bay's population, 29.0% stated they were Jewish, 28.3% said they hadno religion, 17.2% said they were Catholic, 7.7% did not state a religion and 7.7% said they were Anglican. The median weekly household income was $2,539, compared to the Australian median of $1,746.[19]
According to the2016 census, the population of Rose Bay (includingVaucluse) was 10,053.[20]
Data released by Sensis[21] showed that in 2015 theHebrew surnameCohen (i.e. Priest) was Rose Bay's top-ranked surname, followed second by the Anglo surnameSmith, and third the European (mostlyAshkenazi Jewish) surnameKaplan (i.e. Priest). The first and third top-ranking surnames reflecting theJewish population plurality of the suburb.
Rose Bay has been the centre of Sydney's Jewish community, including all over theEastern Suburbs. It is still a strong centre for the Jewish population of Sydney, and has attracted a sizeable number of immigrants fromIsrael,South Africa andRussia.[citation needed]
According to the2021 census, there are 2,758 flats in Rose Bay, or 68.8% of all dwellings, compared to an Australian average of 14.2%. There are also 826 separate houses (20.6%) and 349 semi/terraces (8.7%). Of these, 42.4% are rented, 30.0% are fully owned and 23.8% are being purchased.[19]
Elizabeth Harrower's debut novel,Down in the City, begins in Rose Bay. It depicts the character Esther Prescott, who is transported from a sheltered, genteel life in the harbourside suburb to aKings Cross apartment with her moody, unpredictable husband Stan.
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