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Admiralty House is the official Sydney residence of the Governor-General of Australia. It is...

Admiralty House is the official Sydney residence of the Governor-General of Australia. It is located in Kirribilli, on the northern foreshore of Sydney Harbour adjacent to Kirribilli House, which is the Sydney residence of the Prime Minister. The large Italianate sandstone mansion at Kirribilli Point, once known as “Wotonga”, has commanding views across Sydney Harbour to the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House. Its name originates in the fact that it served as the residence for the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy’s Australian Squadron. The original house on the site was completed, as a private dwelling, in mid-to-late 1843, by Colonel John George Nathaniel Gibbes, the then Collector of Customs for New South Wales. A portrait of Gibbes, painted in 1808, hangs in the house. Before the arrival of European settlers in Sydney Harbour, the Aboriginal tribe “Cammeraygal” lived along the Kirribilli and Milson's Point foreshores, and in the surrounding bushland. The area was a fertile fishing ground, and thus the name “Kirribilli” is derived from the Aboriginal word "Kiarabilli", which means "good fishing spot". The name “Cammeraygal” is displayed on the North Sydney