Sydney Cricket Ground
A stadium in Moore Park that has hosted Test cricket since the 19th century and is home to the New South Wales cricket team and the Sydney Swans. Its old green-roofed members' and ladies' stands still sit among the modern ones.
- Where
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- -33.8917, 151.2247
Get the Sydney Cricket Ground stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Sydney Cricket Ground. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your New South Wales volume with your photos and a note.
Near Sydney Cricket Ground
Australian Museum 2.2 km
The oldest museum in Australia, founded in the 1820s as the Colonial Museum and housed in a sandstone building facing Hyde Park. Its natural history and First Nations collections run from dinosaurs and minerals to Pacific cultures.
Hyde Park 2.4 km
The oldest public parkland in Australia, 16 hectares on the eastern edge of the city centre. An avenue of fig trees runs between the Archibald Fountain at the north end and the Art Deco Anzac Memorial at the south.
St Mary's Cathedral 2.5 km
The seat of Sydney's Catholic archbishop, a Gothic Revival church in honey-coloured sandstone facing Hyde Park. It is a minor basilica dedicated to Our Lady, Help of Christians, patroness of Australia.
Art Gallery of New South Wales 2.7 km
Sydney's leading public gallery, founded in 1872 and set in The Domain behind a classical sandstone front. A second, modern building opened beside it in 2022, and the collection spans Australian, Aboriginal, Asian and European art.
Hyde Park Barracks 2.7 km
A brick compound on Macquarie Street built in 1817 to 1819 to house convict men and boys, designed by the convict architect Francis Greenway. It later served as an asylum and courts, and is now a museum of the convict era and part of a World Heritage listing.
Queen Victoria Building 2.7 km
A Romanesque Revival market hall that fills a whole city block on George Street, built between 1893 and 1898 to designs by George McRae. Under its copper domes and stained glass it is now a shopping arcade, 190 metres long.
Sydney Tower 2.8 km
A slim mast topped by a golden turret, the tallest structure in Sydney and one of the tallest observation towers in the Southern Hemisphere. From the observation deck the view runs from the harbour to the Blue Mountains on a clear day.
Darling Harbour 3.2 km
A harbour inlet on the western edge of the city centre, rebuilt for the bicentenary in 1988 as a pedestrian waterfront. Around its promenades sit the aquarium, the maritime museum, restaurants and the convention centre.
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Questions
Where is Sydney Cricket Ground?
Sydney Cricket Ground is in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Australian Museum (2.2 km), Hyde Park (2.4 km), St Mary's Cathedral (2.5 km).
How do I get the Sydney Cricket Ground stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Sydney Cricket Ground and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your New South Wales volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Sydney Cricket Ground before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your New South Wales volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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