Wonderland City was an amusement park located at Tamarama

Tamarama, New South Wales

Tamarama is a beachside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Tamarama is located 7 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Waverley Council...

, in Sydney

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, Australia

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. It opened on Saturday, 1 December 1906 and closed in 1911. At the time it was the largest open air amusement park in the southern hemisphere

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. The 20 acres (80,937.2 m²) amusement park was operated by theatrical entrepreneur William Anderson

William Anderson (theatre)

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. During its operation the park was dogged by controversy for its attempts to block swimmers from Tamarama Beach. Before being occupied by the amusement park, Tamarama Park was the site of The Royal Aquarium and Pleasure Grounds, commonly called the Bondi Aquarium.