New South Wales   PHS is located about 25km inland on the south eastern coast of Australia. (150°59'44"East     33°49'15"South) Click on the map for a more detailed view of the Parramatta River area (in the red border).   Incidentally, you can click here for a definitive and historically verifiable image that places PHS 24 km from Sydney by road. Go back one level.

This image based on NASA data from:
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?3906

Australian index at:
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/Countries/Australia/

Credit:	NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Science Team
Satellite:	Terra
Sensor:	MISR
Image Date:	11/7/2000

Description: This image from MISR's nadir-looking camera was acquired on July 11, 2000 (Terra orbit 3009) and shows a 200-kilometer section of the eastern Australian coast, centered around the Sydney metropolitan area. Sydney Harbour is the rugged-shaped inlet toward the northern side of the grey-colored central city area. The areas to the north, west, and south of Sydney are characterized by rugged terrain and extensive forests. Just north of the city the Ku-ring-gai Chase and Brisbane Waters National Parks surround the Hawkesbury River estuary. Further north and separated from the ocean by narrow dunes are a series of lakes, the two largest in this image being Lake Macquarie (at the top) and Tuggerah Lake. West of the metropolitan area, some 65 kilometers inland, are the Blue Mountains. The primary transport corridor for road and rail across the mountains is clearly visible, and just north of it is the steep-sided Grose River valley. In the southern part of the mountains is a series of long valleys filled by Lake Burragorang, a major source of Sydney's water supply. South of Sydney's central area are Botany Bay, Bate Bay, and the Royal National Park. Further south, the forested coastline gives way to the city of Wollongong, the adjacent steel-making complex at Port Kembla, and Lake Illawarra. MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology. © NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Science Team         Australian readers: please excuse American spelling.