Description of the attraction
The Australian National Maritime Museum is located on the shores of Darling Bay in Sydney, where you can visit various themed exhibition halls and get acquainted with the history of navigation from Aboriginal times to the present day. Museum galleries include Navigators: Discovering Australia, Passengers: From Exiled Convicts to Refugees from Southeast Asia, Fleet: Guarding Australia, Australia - USA: Bound by Sea and others. Here you can also learn the history of the appearance of the first lighthouses on the continent, for example, the Cape Bowling lighthouse.
On the pier, you can see a real flotilla of ships and boats: here is the Krayt, built in the 1920s and in service with the Special Forces during the Second World War; "Carpentaria" - a floating lighthouse built in 1917; former Royal Australian Navy ships - Submarine Onslow (1968), destroyer Vampire (1956), patrol ship Progress (1968); as well as the merchant ship "James Craig" (1874) and the model of the famous "Endeavor", on which James Cook himself sailed.
Other famous exhibits of the museum: the boat "Spirit of Australia", which holds the world speed record - 511, 11 km / h, and the doubles "Barcelona", which won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona.
Interestingly, a significant part of the museum's exhibits is devoted to the history of whaling in Australia.
