Places Named After/in Honour of Mrs Macquarie
- Places named after or in honour of Macquarie's wife, Elizabeth (née Campbell; 1778–1835):
- Elizabeth Street, a principal street of Hobart, Tasmania named after Macquarie's wife
- Elizabeth Street, Sydney, one of the principal streets of Sydney, named after Macquarie's wife
- Elizabeth Bay, a bay of Port Jackson and suburb of Sydney
- Mrs Macquarie's Chair, a rock cut into a chair shape on Mrs Macquarie's Point, a peninsula in Port Jackson, at the end of Mrs Macquarie's Road
- Campbelltown, New South Wales, a town founded in 1820, one of a series of settlements south-west of Sydney being established by Macquarie at that time
- Appin, New South Wales, a town founded in 1811, which takes its name from Appin, the Scottish West Highlands town where Elizabeth was born
- Airds, New South Wales, a suburb in south-western Sydney, which takes its name from Elizabeth's Scottish family estate
- Meredith Island off the coast of New South Wales was reportedly named after a friend of Mrs Elizabeth Macquarie
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