Cockatoo Island on Sydney Harbour will host this year’s finale of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour. It’s taken 11 long years but finally, on 17 September 2011, the world’s undisputed number one freestyle motocross (FMX) competition will converge on Australian turf and air space for the climax of the World Tour.

It’s the sixth and final stop for the series that will see globe-trotting Aussie Robbie Maddison, contest the coveted event on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour.

But the world record-holder for the longest jump on two-wheels won’t be short of competition. The planet’s top freestyle motocross riders, including world champion Nate Adams, will be making the journey Down Under to take out the Red Bull X-Fighters crown.

For one day only, Cockatoo Island’s gritty industrial spaces will be taken over by the gravity-defying dirt bike devils, scaling heights of 15-metres in search of that elusive no-handed backflip, with Sydney Harbour as the backdrop.

Tickets for the 2011 Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour finale on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour will be available from 3 July at www.ticketek.com.au/redbullxfighters

Recently added to the World Heritage List as part of 11 convict sites, Cockatoo Island is Sydney’s largest island, located 15 minutes by ferry from Circular Quay. Unique remnants of the island’s history scatter its 18 hectares, including solitary prison cells, hand carved grain silos, a military guardhouse and convict workshops. The island was also an industrial school, a reformatory and one of Australia's biggest shipyards.

For more information visit www.cockatooisland.gov.au