For serious laps, try the North Sydney Olympic Pool (next to the Sydney Harbour Bridge) or for a lazier affair have a massage at Wylies Bath in Coogee.
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While it is the third time England have lifted the trophy, this win on a gloriously sunny day at the North Sydney Oval is the first time they have done so on foreign soil.
The 120km river reaches the Pacific Ocean at Broken Bay, 50km north of Sydney.
On 4 January, another surfer survived a shark attack in the city of Gosford, north of Sydney.
But the more beaten-track trips north of Sydney, through hippy haven Byron Bay, which has awesome surf breaks.
The attack came one day after a surfer was seriously injured in a shark attack north of Sydney.
While pulling weeds in his son's garden at Palm Beach, north of Sydney, he fell backwards over a cliff, landed on rocks and cut his head.
In the Hunter Valley 150 km (93 miles) north of Sydney, mid-January is harvest time in what has long been recognized as one of Australia's premium wine growing areas.
So after years of planning, Mr Turner left his 90-acre avocado and blueberry farm in Comboyne, north of Sydney, last October and arrived in Varanasi, near Allahabad, with his family.
Every year thousands of spectators gather along Manly's two-mile-long stretch of sand, 30 minutes north of Sydney, to watch teams of young people compete in a series of events known as Beach Carnivals.
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North Carolina native Sydney Wiggins was just 18 years old when he joined the Army in 1942.
But the move will also affect 3, 500 employees from North Carolina to Madrid and Sydney.
Spotlighting the current restaurant trend, Italian, Pilu at Freshwater is a new restaurant a half-hour ferry ride away from downtown on Sydney's north shore, featuring Sardinian cuisine and views onto Freshwater Beach.
Her case is comfortably trumped by the experiences of a young London couple who thought they were on their way to Sydney, Australia, when they had in fact booked tickets to a former mining town in the north-east of Canada, also called Sydney.
Back in 2003, Kathryn North and colleagues at the University of Sydney published a paper in a leading genetics journal about a gene called ACTN3.
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Seldom mentioned in guidebooks and closer to Jakarta than to Sydney, the coast stretches 750 miles north to the tip of the Ningaloo Reef.
"It may be that reducing cholesterol to levels that are consistent with what used to be found in rural china is where we need to head, " says Sydney Smith, a cardiologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a co-author of the new guidelines.
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