Hornsby Aquatic Centre, NSW, Australia
S 33° 42.090 E 151° 05.770
56H E 323560 N 6269313
This has been 'the local swimming pool' as long as I can remember, with a 50 m, 8-lane pool (from living at Wahroonga as a child).
Waymark Code: WMVVMT
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 05/29/2017
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From Wikipedia (Hornsby): (
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"Hornsby Aquatic Centre, which was built in 1962, had reached the end of its safe working life, and was closed on Friday 24 December 2010. It had featured a fifty-metre pool with 8 lanes and a small twelve-metre pool, also with 8 lanes. A new pool was built and opened on 11 August 2014."
From the Hornsby Shire Council website on the Features of the pool: (
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The Hornsby Aquatic and Leisure Centre is a state-of-the-art facility. Some of its key features include:
* Heated eight lane 50 metre outdoor pool for lap swimming and water polo
* Outdoor seating for 500 spectators with a spectacular view of Old Mans Valley
* A heated, ten metre by 25 metre indoor pool for learn-to-swim activities
* A leading edge gymnasium
* A heated leisure pool with zero depth entry leading into a walking zone
* Fun water features for the children in the leisure pool
* A two metre high enclosed water slide for children
* Multi purpose rooms for club activities and dry recreation activities
* Kiosk and café
* Child minding service (Monday, Wednesday & Friday: 9am to 12.30 pm)
* Parking on site for 100 vehicles (further, limited on-street-parking)
* Lifts to all levels of the complex for people with access needs
Revisited/Photographed: Saturday, 9 January, 2016