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Woolloomooloo is a low-lying former docklands, inner-city suburb of Sydney , Australia . It is located between the heights of the Central Business District (CBD) to the west, Potts Point to the east, Darlinghurst to the south and Woolloomooloo Bay to the north. The suburb has been historically a poorer Working Class district of Sydney. This has changed only recently with recent Gentrification of the inner city areas of Sydney. The redevelopment of the waterfront, particularly the construction of the housing development on ''Finger Wharf'', which boasts Russell Crowe as a resident, has caused major change. Areas of Housing Commission housing do still exist in the suburb, however. Woolloomooloo's commerce has historically been dominated by shipping at the Finger Wharf, and by the regular influx of sailors from the Garden Island base of the Royal Australian Navy . The popular night-spot and tourist destination of Kings Cross lies to the southeast in Potts Point. The ''Bay Wharf'' building is, according to the Guinness Book Of World Records , the Largest Wooden Structure In The World . 400 m long and 63 m wide, it was built in 1912 and stands on 3,600 piles. ORIGIN OF NAME The current spelling is actually derived from the name of the first homestead in area, Wolloomooloo House, built by the first landowner John Palmer. There is debate as how Palmer came up with the name with different Aboriginal words being suggested. Anthropolgist J.D. McCarthy wrote in ''NSW Aboriginal Places Names'', in 1946, that Woolloomooloo could derive from either ''Wallamullah'', meaning 'place of plenty', ''Wallabahmullah'', meaning a 'young black kangaroo' or ''Wal-loo-yen-wal-loo'', meaning. In 1852, the traveller Col. G.C. Mundy wrote that the name came from ''Wala-mala'', meaning an Aboriginal burial ground. It has also been suggested that the name means field of blood due to the alleged Aboriginal tribal fights that took place in the area or it is from the pronoucation by Aboriginals of windmill, from the one that existed on Darlinhurst ridge until the 1850's. HISTORY Initially, after the First Fleet 's arrival in Sydney, the area was called Garden Cove or Garden Island Cove after the nearby Small Wooden Island . The first land grant was given to Palmer in 1793 to allow him to run cattle for the fledgling colony. In the 1840's the farm land was subdivided into what is now Woolloomooloo, Darlinghurst and parts of Surry Hills . Expensive houses were built in Elizabeth Bay and a road was needed from Sydney, it was for this reason that William Street was built, dividing the land for the first time. IN POPULAR CULTURE
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