Anderson Park is an urban recreation park located in the

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suburb of ,

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, Australia. The park is located on the shore of the bay in

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from which the suburb is named. Anderson Park is built on land reclaimed from the bay in the 1890s, and was dedicated on 8 October 1899. It was originally called Warringa Park, but was renamed in 1926 in honor of William Anderson who was the Mayor of the local municipality of North Sydney from 1914 to 1918. A floodlit sports field is available for cricket; various codes of football; volleyball; and other activities. There are pathways, sandstone flagging, a depression-era concrete wall and a small beach. The main path through the park is lined with Hill's weeping figs.

Significant events

On 17 July 1934, thousands gathered in Anderson Park to watch as

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and Captain Patrick Gordon Taylor took off from there in their single-engined

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for a promotional flight over Sydney. Originally, they had planned to take off from the middle of Macquarie Street in Sydney, but when the local council denied permission, they transported their aeroplane by barge to Neutral Bay. The Altair had recently been shipped from America on the deck games court of the SS ''Mariposa'', and had the word "

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" painted on the side, though this had to be covered with brown paper due to Australian law prohibiting the use of this word for commercial purposes. The aeroplane was hastily renamed the '' Lady Southern Cross''.

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