Amazing Sydney

AMAZING SYDNEY SYDNEY HISTORY RECEIVED 225 IF SYDNEY WAS A PERSON THEY WOULD HAVE 2. YEARS OLD Letters from the Queen SEEN OVER WATCHED 82,000 sunsets COLONISED IN 1788 Olympic games SYDNEY HARBOUR Sydney Harbour capacity 560 BILLION LITRES... . to fill it with a garden hose pipe would take 16,563 YEARS = 4 billion gallons (15.2 billion litres) HARBOUR BRIDGE IT TAKES 80,000 LITRES THAT'S ENOUGH TO FILL 84 OF USHER'S FISH TANKS of paint to cover the Sydney Harbour Bridge. SYDNEY FERRY Every year the Sydney Ferry services travel to the MOON AND BACK 3.5 TIMES*- *Not literally of course! OPERA HOUSE $102m $7m Construction was originally estimated to take 4 years but actually took 14 years to complete. A puppy at the time The original estimated That's like being stung for construction started construction cost of ATM fees over 50 million the Sydney Opera House was $7 million. The final cost was $102 million. would have been times. 78 in dog years when it finished, -SYDNEY (1 VISITORS- titt That's almost every 7,800,000 people visited Sydney in 2012 citizen of New Zealand visiting. twice. MARDI GRAS The Sydney Mardi Gras is the: Team Sydney, the largest float, Attracting over 23,000 visitors to Sydney largest night-time parade in used enough rainbow lycra to stretch the length of 4 olympic swimming pools. the world Sources: www.transportnswgovau/content/sydney-ferries www.ehow.com/tfacts.78803much-garden-hose per-minutehom www.buzafeed.com/tanked/celebrities-wich-amazing-fish-tanks blog businesseventssydney.comau/industry-insiders/12-quirky- and-amazing-facts-about-the-sydney-harbour-bridge/ blog businesseventssydney .com au/access-all-areas/9-fun-and- fascinating-facts-about-the-sydney-opera-house/ www.mardigras org au/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ Parade-release pdf eastcoast car rentals EE 88