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Port Jackson is the formal name for the great natural harbour at the heart of Sydney, the deep, branching inlet more widely known simply as Sydney Harbour. Carved by a drowned river valley and fed by the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers, it stretches inland from the Pacific between the sandstone cliffs of North and South Head and takes in the bays, coves and headlands that frame the modern city. The harbour was named by James Cook in 1770 as he sailed past, though he did not enter it; it was Art...