Walsh Bay

Walsh Bay is a bay within Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour, about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) south of the suburb McMahons Point, New South Wales, Australia. It is named after Henry Deane Walsh, Engineer-in-chief of the Sydney Harbour Trust in the early 20th century. Walsh Bay stretches from the Dawes Point (Aboriginal: Tar-ra) in the northeast, to the Millers Point (Aboriginal: Coodyee) in the southwest, and the original shoreline has been altered to include developments now known as Piers 1 to 9. Walsh Bay includes the Walsh Bay Wharves Precinct and the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, a harbour-side area in Sydney that historically was a working port. The wharves were converted to apartments, theatres, restaurants, cafes and a hotel, and in 2015 the area was designated as an arts precinct. Much of the precinct is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register. The bay was first named in 1918 on drawings of a major new "wharfage scheme" to modernise Sydney's docks to handle steamships and motor vehicles. The rejuvenation was planned by Henry Deane Walsh as engineer-in-chief of the Sydney Harbour Trust. Its then-chairman, Robert Rowan Purdon Hickson, lent his name to Hickson Road, the new freight thoroughfare around this headland.

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