Mrs Macquarie's Chair, Sydney

Mrs Macquarie's Chair, Sydney

Mrs Macquarie's Chair (GPS: -33.85965, 151.22253) is the name of a rock-cut bench at a look-out point to Sydney Harbour. It was cut from a piece of sandstone rock located on a peninsula in Sydney Harbour. Inscribed on the bench are details of the road to this point. The peninsula itself is called Mrs Macquaries 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.

Getting there

Go along Mrs Macquaries Road. Take the Sydney Explorer Bus or 888.

Mrs Macquarie's Chair is on the Map of Sydney, Australia

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