Bay darling harbour in Sydney is located at the Australian national Maritime Museum, where you can visit different themed exhibition halls and get acquainted with the history of seafaring from the aboriginal times to the present day. Among the Museum's galleries – "the Navigators: the discovery of Australia", "Passengers: from exiled convicts to refugees from Southeast Asia", "Fleet: watch Australia", "Australia - United States: associated sea" and others. Here you can learn about the history of the first on the continent beacons, for example, the lighthouse on Cape Bowling.

On the pier you can see the real fleet, consisting of ships and boats: here are the "krait", built in the 1920-ies and were in service special forces during the Second World war; "Carpentaria" - built in 1917, the floating beacon; former ships of the Royal Australian Navy submarine "Onslow" (1968), the destroyer "Vampire" (1956), patrol ship "Progress" (1968); and merchant ship "James Craig" (1874) and the layout of the famous "Endeavour", which sailed himself James cook.

Other famous exhibits of the Museum: the boat "Spirit of Australia", which holds the world speed record – 511, 11 km/h, and a steam room deuce Barcelona, won a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona.

Interestingly, a significant part of the exhibits of the Museum devoted to the history of whaling in Australia.