Rozelle is located 4 kilometres west of the CBD, it sits between the suburbs of Balmain to the north-east and Lilyfield to the south-west, Iron Cove is on the north-west border whilst Rozelle Bay, White Bay and Johnstons Bay make up the south-east border. These three bays surround the container port of Glebe Island which has been attached to the shoreline as part of the extensive reclamation of Rozelle Bay and White Bay which had begun in the 1890s.[