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Gold Coast, city, Australia

(Encyclopedia)Gold Coast, city, Queensland, E Australia, on the Pacific Ocean. The city, a major resort, stretches for many miles along the coast and extends into New...

Australia

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Australia ôstrālˈyə [key], smallest continent, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. With the island state of Tasmania to the south, the continent makes up th...

Blue Mountains, Australia

(Encyclopedia)Blue Mountains, region of New South Wales, SE Australia. Located W of Sydney, this elevation is actually a plateau forming part of the Great Dividing Range. ...

Sydney, Sir Philip

(Encyclopedia)Sydney, Sir Philip: see Sidney, Sir Philip. ...

North Sydney

(Encyclopedia)North Sydney, town (1991 pop. 7,260), NE Cape Breton Island, N.S., Canada, on the north shore of Sydney Harbour. It was the coal-shipping port for the nearby Sydney Mines and a winter base for the Cap...

Sydney Mines

(Encyclopedia)Sydney Mines, town (1991 pop. 7,551), Cape Breton Island, N.S., Canada, on Sydney Harbour. It is a former coal-mining center, coal having been mined in the area from 1784 to 2001. There are steel mill...

Dobell, Sydney Thompson

(Encyclopedia)Dobell, Sydney Thompson dōbĕlˈ [key], 1824–74, English poet. He is best known for the melodramatic, extravagantly emotional poem Balder (1853). In 1855 he published jointly with Alexander Smith (...

Porter, William Sydney

(Encyclopedia)Porter, William Sydney: see O. Henry. ...

North Australia

(Encyclopedia)North Australia: see Northern Territory, Australia. ...

Central Australia

(Encyclopedia)Central Australia: see Northern Territory, Australia. ...