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Queen's Park is a park in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 6 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, part of the Centennial Parklands alongside Centennial Park and Moore Park. Queens Park (no apostrophe) is also the name of a small residential suburb to the north of the park. It is in the local government area of Waverley Council. Queen's Park is east of the park and suburb known as Centennial Park, west of Waverley and Charing Cross, south of Bondi Junction and north of Randwick. ==The park== Queen's Park was originally part of the Sydney Common and later the Lachlan Swamps Water Reserve. Today it is a large urban park, part of Centennial Parklands. It was dedicated with Centennial Park in 1888 as part of the centenary celebrations of European settlement in Australia. Numerous playing fields are located on the southern and western flatter sections of the park. It has been used for sports fields since 1938. Moriah College which is just across the road also uses the park for their PDHPE lessons and other schools in Sydney also use the park. The Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust undertook major renovations of Queen's Park in 2009 to improve the quality of the playing fields which are used daily.〔(Heritage NSW )〕 The Trust also completed a major renovation of the popular children's playground in 2009, and developed a shared cycleway to link the eastern suburbs cycle network with Centennial Park, New South Wales. 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「Queens Park, New South Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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