Mrs Macquarie's Chair, Sydney
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Mrs Macquarie's Chair is a piece of sandstone rock that has been cut to form a bench. It is located on a peninsula in Sydney Harbour. The peninsula itself is called Mrs Macquarie's Point, and it is located at the end of Mrs Macquarie's Road.
The namesake for the chair, the peninsula and the road is Lady Elizabeth Macquarie, wife of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. According to popular belief, Mrs Macquarie loves to to sit on the rock and watch for ships from England sailing into the harbour.
The peninsula sits between the Garden Island peninsula to the east and Bennelong Point (where the Sydney Opera House is located) to the west. The chair faces north-east towards Fort Denison and the Pacific Ocean. Looking to the northwest, however, one gets the best view of Sydney Harbour, with the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Granted those famous icons were not around when Mrs Macquarie sat there.
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