The name Barangaroo was selected from over
1,600 entries submitted to the NSW Government State-wide naming
competition in 2006.
Barangaroo was a powerful indigenous woman who
played an important role in the early days of colonial Sydney.
Barangaroo was also the wife of Bennelong,
after whom Bennelong Point - the site of the Sydney Opera House -
is named. The name therefore completes an historical bookending
between the eastern and western points of Sydney's CBD.
The name Barangaroo was gazetted in 2007.
