Hunters Hill is situated on a small peninsula that separates the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers.

She built a cottage—later known as Fig Tree House—on land that fronted the Lane Cove River; Reiby Street is named after her.

During the 1840s, bushrangers and convicts who had escaped from the penal settlement on Cockatoo Island would take refuge in Hunters Hill.

A number were built by Frenchman Didier Numa Joubert (1816–1881), who bought 200 acres (81 ha) of land from Mary Reiby from 1847 and used seventy stonemasons from Italy to construct solid artistic houses.

The first Gladesville Bridge constructed in 1881 linked the area to Drummoyne and the southern side of the Parramatta River.

[6] The area is now residential, Nelson Parade, and demands to remove it saw a plan developed to transport it to an old quarry area besides Badgerys Creek that was licensed to receive low level radioactive waste; however all such planning ceased as Badgerys Creek International Airport was decided upon to proceed.

This approach had strong community support and would resolve a long-standing issue that the private sector created.

In the later stages of the project the waste material from the site was taken to a facility in Western Australia after it was granted a license to operate in 2023.

[1] The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization supervised the excavation and packing of the contaminated material into sealed bags and containers before it was transported for disposal.

[1] According to the Australian Taxation Office statistics, the postcode of 2110 (Hunters Hill & Woolwich) had an average taxable income of $215,456 making it the 9th wealthiest suburb in Australia.

[23] North Sydney is one of only two original divisions in New South Wales, along with Wentworth, which have never been held by the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

Huntleys Point provides access to the Parramatta River ferry services which run between Circular Quay and Parramatta[25] while Woolwich provides access to the Cockatoo Island ferry services which run between Circular Quay and Cockatoo Island.

Hunters Hill is the site of the AAGPS Catholic boys' secondary school, St Joseph's College.

Villa Maria is also the headquarters of the Marist Fathers in Australia;[27] from the 1860s, it was the centre of their extensive missionary work in the Pacific.

It has had as members State and Interstate Champions, and an Australian entrant at the 1924 Wimbledon Championship, Alan Watt, who reached the fourth round of competition.