Port Jackson, Sydney Harbor consists of (Port Sydney), is a natural harbor of Sydney, Australia. Famous for its beauty, especially as the location of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbor Bridge.ngai Parramatta, west of Petersham to Rose Hill, reported to belong to the Wanegal. Eora people lived on the southern harbor, close to where the first European landing party.
Port discovery by Europeans is credited to Lieutenant James Cook in 1770, although he did not enter it. Cook named the port to the memory of Sir George Jackson. Captain Arthur Phillip established the first coloni in Australia at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson in 1778 which eventually became the city where Sydney. In his first news from the colony for a famous newspaper in England "... we were satisfied with the discovery of the world's best port, where thousands of ships that can sail under the most perfect security ..."