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I don't know where that is, but it is definitely not Green Point on Pittwater.

This is Miller's Point (right), possibly taken from Goat Island or Blues Point.

Apart from the regatta, this is a wonderful and unusual view of the 1895 Dawes Point area and the docks before they were redeveloped into the finger wharves of Walsh Bay. Contemporary interactive map - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm3443-sd&rgn=...

beachcomber australia A built-up little spot. I wonder how many of those buildings are still around?

Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons Quite a lot of the buildings in Lower Fort Street and Windmill Street are still there, from that terrace with the seven uneven chimneys south. Almost everything around Walsh Bay and Dawes Point was redeveloped for wharves or the Harbour Bridge. GoogleMapsStreetView - I think the photographer was up the hill behind at McMahons Point, or high up on a ship. See the line-up of the terraces 6th chimney with the Lands Department Tower, neither of which has moved in the last 118 years!

Sailing canoe race? These canoes where the first recorded planning sailboats.

Dale Well spotted, aren't they wonderful looking little craft? Our vessels curator agrees with you, in fact in the Evening News Article, 16 December 1895, the results of a canoe race is mentioned.

Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons The same source gives the prizes for all the races on the day. No wonder the skipper is smiling, he might have won £3 or around $500 today

one of the third class protected cruisers on the Australia Station

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