Bondi Junction is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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11 Facts About Bondi Junction
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Bondi Junction is a largely commercial area which has undergone many changes since the late 20th century.
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Bondi Junction Beach is a neighbouring suburb to the east with a world-famous beach.
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Bondi Junction is an Aboriginal word meaning water breaking over rocks.
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Bondi Junction railway station is an underground station that is the eastern terminus of the Eastern Suburbs railway line on the Sydney Trains network.
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In 1976, with construction of the railway underway and the NSW Government resolving to actually complete the project as far as Bondi Junction, construction was begun on an elevated freeway-standard bypass of Bondi Junction.
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Nonetheless, the popularity of the railway was manifest and Bondi Junction interchange became the largest suburban bus terminus in Australia.
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Westfield Bondi Junction is a major mid to upmarket shopping centre opposite Bondi Junction railway station on the corner of Grosvenor and Oxford Street.
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Bondi Junction is Sydney's fifth largest business district behind the CBD itself, North Sydney, Parramatta and Chatswood.
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Bondi Junction is represented in one of the most popular sporting competitions across Australia, the National Rugby League competition, by the local team the Sydney Roosters, officially the Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club .
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The Bondi Junction is known colloquially to residents in the area as "the home of the Roosters".
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