Mrs Macquarie's Chair
Mrs Macquarie's Chair
Lady Macquarie's Chair | |
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Mrs Macquarie's Chair, near the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney | |
| Coordinates: 33°51′34.08″S 151°13′19.93″E / 33.8594667°S 151.2222028°E | |
| Location | The Domain, near the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Part of | The Domain |
| Offshore water bodies | Port Jackson |
| Geology | Sydney sandstone |
Mrs Macquarie's Chair (also known as Lady Macquarie's Chair) is an exposed sandstone rock cut into the shape of a bench, on a peninsula in Sydney Harbour. It was hand carved by convicts in 1810, for Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales. The peninsula itself was known to the Gadigal as Yurong Point, and is now widely known as Mrs Macquarie's Point, and is part of The Domain, near the Royal Botanic Gardens.