Sydney now has relatively few foreshore industrial sites compared with earlier times, and this list is mainly of historical interest.
Sites are shown in order of location on the northern foreshore, running generally east to west.
Little Manly Point c. 1945 1967 1999 —1924 A bottle-shaped brick and cement syphon tank still stood in the yard in 1908,[42] and there may have been remnants of the kilns there as late as 1924.
[44] now c.1980 Balls Head Bay (the part of it previously known as Oyster Bay or Cove and Kerosene Bay) Site reused by Peruvian Oil Company (see below) Safety Explosives Co. After coal gas production ceased, during the period 1971–1973, the artist Brett Whitely used the disused coal store building as a studio for creating large artworks.
(East) / Sydney Cove / Sydney Cove (Mort's later Farmers & Graziers) (Ferries) Circular Quay (West) / Sydney Cove The single-storey building was converted, by adding more floors in 1908, to house the Geological & Mining Museum (since closed), by Government Architect, Walter Liberty Vernon.
Ballast Point Iron Cove side Monsanto Chemicals This site also provided the last large vehicle access and wharf for transport to and from nearby Cockatoo Island.
There were originally fourteen islands in Port Jackson, including the Parramatta River.