Brash and beautiful, Sydney sits nestled in the sandstone cliffs
overlooking Sydney Harbor, basking in its role as a gateway for
travelers, a mecca of culture and a playground for tourists and its
5 million residents alike. Host to the 2000 Summer Olympic Games,
the city is feverishly sprucing up, renovating its infrastructure
and repairing its image as a rough-and-tumble town.
In some ways, though, the city delights in its "bad-boy" heritage.
Though the region was populated for 100,000 years by the Aborigines,
captain Arthur Phillips sailed his First Fleet into Sydney Cove in
1788, bearing nearly 1,000 exiled convicts from British prisons.
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