Dover Heights is a cliffside

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, in the state of

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. Dover Heights is 9 kilometres east of the

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. Its postcode is 2030, shared with

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and

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Location

Dover Heights Coastal Reserves To The City

CSIRO Radio Astronomy Plaque Rodney Reserve

Dover Heights - Cliffs to Portland Street Looking South

Dover Heights borders

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to its north,

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to its south and Rose Bay to its west and has the

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to its east. Dover Heights is a mainly residential suburb. Many of the suburb's properties have views of

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. Some properties have both harbour and ocean views. Dudley Page Reserve has panoramic views over Sydney Harbour and is a popular site for sunsets and picnics. The Dover Heights Coastal Reserves are part of the Bondi to Watsons Bay Cliff Walk and have stunning ocean views. The Dover Heights Coastal Reserves are formed by the contiguous Weonga Reserve, Rodney Reserve and Raleigh Reserve. The suburb is considered to be the most affluent within the Waverley Local Government Area, and amongst the most affluent suburbs in Australia. This is reflected in property prices – like nearby suburbs Vaucluse and Bellevue Hill, median house prices are above A$6.4 million. The ATO's 2014–2015 taxation statistics listed Dover Height's postcode, 2030 as the second richest in Australia with an average taxable income of $185,684. Dover Heights shares the 2030 postcode with the neighbouring suburbs of Rose Bay North, Vaucluse & Watsons Bay.

History

Dover Heights is believed to have been named for its cliffs along the Pacific Ocean which resembled those found at

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. The first mention of Dover Heights appeared in municipal records in 1886. The area was first used for market gardens. In 1830, land in the area was owned by Daniel Cooper (1785–1853), a partner in the firm Cooper and Levey, who owned the Waterloo Stores. The retailing emporium was located on the corner of George Street and Market Street in the city, on the site that was later occupied by Gowings Brothers retailers until 2006. The Dover Heights area was subdivided in 1913.

Population

At the , there were 4,044 residents in Dover Heights. 55.7% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were South Africa 14.3% and England 3.3%. 76.6% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Russian 3.3% and Mandarin 2.9%. The most common responses for religion were Judaism 49.9%, No Religion 19.5% and Catholic 11.1%. According to the demographic community profile of id.com.au created from the 2016 census, Dover Heights is the suburb with the highest Jewish population by percent in Australia. The median weekly household income was $3,877 and 61.2% of households had a weekly income of more than $3,000. Housing costs were high in Dover Heights with the median monthly mortgage payment being $4,333.

Architecture

With both cliff top and city views, Dover Heights has a number of homes of architectural interest which have received awards
The Butterfly House
– 197 Military Road, Dover Heights - designed by award-winning architect Ed Lippmann
Moebius House
– 129 Military Road, Dover Heights - designed by architect Tony Owen

– 10 Wentworth Street, Dover Heights - designed by architect Peter Stutchbury Winner of the

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by the

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in 2015
The Cliff House
– 8 Wentworth Street, Dover Heights
The Wave Dover Heights
– 185 /185A Military Road – designed by architects Paul Brough & Andre Baroukh Winner of the 2015 Master Builders Association Award of Australia – National Medium Density – 2 to 5 Dwellings Winner of the 2015 Master Builders Association NSW Award For Town House / Villas / Dual Occupancy Over $1,000,000 The_Butterfly_House

The Holman House – 20 Hunter Street, Dover Heights Winner of the

by the

in 2005 Other properties of architectural note: 1 George Street – Dover Heights 21 Hunter Street – Dover Heights 57 Eastern Ave, Dover Heights 12 Douglas Parade, Dover Heights

Radio Astronomy

During the

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, Rodney Reserve, at the Dover Heights clifftop, was used by the

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for coastal defence

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. The

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further used the site for pioneering experimentation in

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related to galactic radio emissions, with a team including

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first observing solar emissions in 1945

The site primarily made use of

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s

The first radio source they identified with something that could be seen was in the constellation Taurus, and named Taurus A, which is in fact the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant (the remains of an exploding star) first reported by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054.

References

*''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia

External links

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