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Hunters Hill is a suburb on the North Shore in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Hunters Hill is located 9 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Municipality of Hunter's Hill. Hunters Hill is situated on a small peninsula that separates the Lane Cove River and Parramatta River. It can be reached by bus or by ferry. ==History== The area's Aboriginal name is 'Mookaboola' or 'Moocooboola', which means ''meeting of waters''.〔(Point 2 Point ) Accessed 3/7/2009〕 Hunters Hill was named after John Hunter, the second Governor of New South Wales, who was in office between 1795 and 1800.〔''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, p.126, ISBN 0-207-14495-8, page 127〕 The area that is now Hunters Hill was settled in 1835. One of the earliest settlers was Mary Reibey, the first female retailer in Sydney. She built a cottage—later known as Fig Tree House—on land that fronted the Lane Cove River; Reiby Street is named after her. During the 1840s, bushrangers and convicts who had escaped from the penal settlement on Cockatoo Island would take refuge in Hunters Hill. Many of the suburb's early houses were built from the local sandstone. A number were built by Frenchman Didier Numa Joubert (1816–1881), who bought of land from Mary Reiby from 1847 and used seventy stonemasons from Italy to construct solid artistic houses. Hunters Hill was proclaimed as a municipality on 5 January 1861. The first Gladesville Bridge constructed in 1881 linked the area to Drummoyne and the southern side of the Parramatta River.〔(Gladesville Bridge ) Accessed 3/7/2009〕 In the early 20th century, there was an industrial area in Hunters Hill. One of the industries was a radium and uranium refinery operating from 1911 to 1915. The concentrated ore was transported over 1200km from Radium Hill in South Australia, 100km west of Broken Hill. At the time, uranium was considered a byproduct, but very small quantities of radium (which had been discovered in 1898) were very valuable. The refinery could produce about 5 milligrammes of radium bromide from a ton of ore, worth £20 per milligramme in 1912. Several attempts have been made to remediate the site as awareness of radioactive contamination has increased since the refinery closed and is now a residential area. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hunters Hill, New South Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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