Sydney boasts “the finest and most extensive harbour in the universe” – or so the first fleet chief surgeon, John White, rhapsodised in 1790.
Less trumpeted, though, have been the harbour’s islands. Once numbering 14, there are now only eight. Five (Garden, Bennelong, Darling, Glebe and Berry) were connected to the surrounding shores by the European colonisers, while two were joined to form what is now Spectacle Island.
