Goat Island

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Goat Island, west of the Harbour Bridge, has been a shipyard, a quarantine station and a gunpowder depot in its previous lives. Heritage tours are offered twice monthly from Circular Quay, see the national parks website (www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au) for details. Plans to restore the island to Indigenous ownership are underway.

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