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Bruny Island
Bruny Island is a coastal island of Tasmania, Australia, located at the mouths of the Derwent River and Huon River estuaries on Storm Bay on the Tasman Sea, south of Hobart. The island is separated from the mainland by the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. The island and the channel are named after French explorer, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. The island's Aboriginal name is lunawanna-allonah, from which the island settlements of Alonnah and Lunawanna are named. History Bruny Island was inhabited by Aboriginal Tasmanians people. Some people living on the island identify as being of Aboriginal descent. Abel Tasman was the first recorded European to sight the island, in November 1642 but did not determine it was an island. On 11 March 1773, Tobias Furneaux was the first British explorer to reach the island and his ship anchored at Adventure Bay (named after his ship) for four days and the crew ascertained the land was an island. Four years later, on 26 January 1777, James Cook' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunawanna, Tasmania
Lunawanna is a small township on the western side of Bruny Island, Tasmania, facing the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. It is named after part of the Tasmanian Aboriginal name for Bruny Island, Lunawanna-alonnah, a nearby township about to its north being named Alonnah. Lunawanna is in the federal electorate of Franklin, the Tasmanian House of Assembly division of Franklin, and the Tasmanian Legislative Council division of Huon. The Bruny Island local council amalgamated with Kingborough council in 1994 and Lunawanna is located in the Kingborough Council Kingborough Council is a local government body in Tasmania, and one of the five municipalities that constitutes the Greater Hobart Area. Kingborough is classified as an urban local government area and has a population of 37,734, it covers the ... local government area. Mrs Lue Lunawanna (Granddaughter of Eddie Lunawanna) wanted the State Government to name a small region on South Bruny after Mr Lunawanna to remember the Abori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Tasman
Abel Janszoon Tasman (; 160310 October 1659) was a Dutch sea explorer, seafarer and exploration, explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first European to reach New Zealand, which he named ''Staten Landt''. He was also the eponym of Tasmania. Likely born in 1602 or 1603 in Lutjegast, Netherlands, Tasman started his career as a merchant seaman and became a skilled navigator. In 1633, he joined the VOC and sailed to Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia, now Jakarta, Indonesia. He participated in several voyages, including one to Japan. In 1642, Tasman was appointed by the VOC to lead an expedition to explore the uncharted regions of the Southern Pacific Ocean. His mission was to discover new trade routes and to establish trade relations with the native inhabitants. After leaving Batavia, Tasman sailed westward to Mauritius, then south to the Roaring Forties, then eastward, and reached the coast of Tasma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennes Point, Tasmania
Dennes Point is a semi-rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Kingborough in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north-east of the town of Killora. The 2016 census has a population of 49 for the state suburb of Dennes Point. It is also a geographical feature and a small hamlet at the northern tip of Bruny Island. History Dennes Point was gazetted as a locality in 1967. It is named after the Denne family who first settled the area as farmers around the 1830s, although it was known as Kelly's Point up to the 1840s, being named after pioneer shipmaster and harbour pilot James Kelly. Anthony Smith Denne commenced a regular ferry service in 1847 across the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Tinderbox and "Kelly's" Point, although the island is now serviced by a vehicular ferry between Kettering Kettering is a market town, market and industrial town, industrial town in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England, west ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isthmus
An isthmus (; : isthmuses or isthmi) is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated. A tombolo is an isthmus that consists of a spit or bar, and a strait is the sea counterpart of an isthmus, a narrow stretch of sea between two landmasses that connects two larger bodies of water. Isthmus vs land bridge vs peninsula ''Isthmus'' and ''land bridge'' are related terms, with isthmus having a broader meaning. A land bridge is an isthmus connecting Earth's major land masses. The term ''land bridge'' is usually used in biogeology to describe land connections that used to exist between continents at various times and were important for the migration of people and various species of animals and plants, e.g. Beringia and Doggerland. An isthmus is a land connection between two bigger landmasses, while a peninsula is rather a land protrusion that is connected to a bigger landmass on one side only and surrounded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in Compact (newspaper), compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an Website, online site and Mobile app, app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloudy Bay (Tasmania)
Cloudy Bay is located at the southernmost end of Bruny Island in the Australian state of Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ..., inside South Bruny National Park. Shore-based whaling stations operated in the bay in the 1830s. The bay consists of a 5 kilometre long beach which at one end, facilitates surfing and, at the other, a camping location with toilet facilities. located on West side of cloudy bay lagoon sits Jazz island, nment Cloudy Bay is part of the Cloudy Bay Marine Conservation Area, known for its seagrass and shallow sediment microalgae which support diverse marine life. Gallery Image:CloudyBay001.jpg, Looking from the camping location, Cloudy Bay is a quiet and peaceful beach with calm waters and slowly levelling sands. Image:CloudyB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Imlay
Alexander Imlay (1794 or 1800? – 31 March 1847) was a Scottish-born pioneer settler in southern New South Wales. Alexander and his brothers George Imlay, George (1794?-1846), and Peter Imlay, Peter (1797–1881) operated in the region as pastoral farming, pastoralists, whaling in Australia, whalers and shipbuilders. A number of things in the area were named after them. These include Imlay Street, the main street in Eden, New South Wales, Eden, the Mount Imlay National Park and Imlay Shire (today part of Bega Valley Shire). Early life One source says Alexander was born in Scotland and baptised in the parish of Methlick, Aberdeen, on 16 January 1794. His death notice records that he was aged 46 in March 1847, meaning he was born around 1800. The source with the earlier date reports that he attended Aberdeen University and qualified as a surgeon in March 1816. In January 1827 he enlisted as a surgeon in the British army. Imlay first arrived at Sydney in December 1829 on the ''Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kelly (Australian Explorer)
James Kelly (1791–1859) was an Australian mariner, explorer and port official. Life James Kelly was born on 24 December 1791 at Parramatta, New South Wales. He was probably the son of James Kelly, a cook in the convict transport ''Queen'', and Catherine Devereaux, a convict transported for life from Dublin in the same ship. Kelly was first apprenticed as a seaman in 1804 and sailed in vessels engaged in the sealing and sandalwood trades as well as making a voyage to India. In 1812, he was chief officer of the full-rigged ship ''Campbell Macquarie'' on a sealing voyage when the ship was wrecked on Macquarie Island. He became the first Australian-born master mariner with voyages in the sealing industry and general trade between Hobart and Sydney. In 1814, he was master of the '' Henrietta Packet'', a schooner owned by Thomas William Birch. carrying passengers and cargo between colonial ports. In December 1815, Kelly left Hobart in command of an expedition to circumnaviga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonial Ship King George
Colonial Ship ''King George'' was the first ship, by virtue of having three masts, built in the colony of Sydney, New South Wales. ''King George'' was described variously as a square-rigged ship and a three-masted schooner, known in America during the later 19th century as a "tern". The confusion is due to her being modeled on the Baltimore-built three-masted schooners that had sail plans which resembled the square-rigged ships. These ships came into use in the later half of the 18th century, and would have been known to James Underwood, the shipyard builder. Their distinctive sail plan feature was in having the extremely large fore and main courses, and only the fore and main topsails, with the mizzen mast rigged with the mainsail and main-topsail in place of the spanker, a plan based on the two-masted Boston pilot schooner that eventually evolved into the famed Baltimore clippers in the 1830s. The fore and staysail booms were omitted to allow stowage of extra whaling boats and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean (ship)
A number of sailing ships have been named ''Ocean''. * was a sloop launched in 1790 at Plymouth. Circa 1792 the Sierra Leone Company purchased her and sailed her in support of their colony. In 1793 the Company sent her on a voyage along the coast to trade for African commodities that she brought back to Freetown for re-export. The Company judged the experiment a success and the next year it sent several more vessels to do the same. The French captured ''Ocean'' in August 1796 and the Royal Navy recaptured her in January 1798. Her subsequent fate is obscure. * was a ship of 243 tons ( bm) built in France in 1793 that the British captured in 1799. She became a whaler for Samuel Enderby & Sons and made some 11 whaling voyages to the Southern Whale Fishery between 1800 and 1824. In 1806 Captain Abraham Bristow discovered the Auckland Islands. * was built at South Shields, England. She performed two voyages as an "extra" ship for the British East India Company (EIC). ''Ocean'' continued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander (1801 Ship Shields)
''Alexander'' was a 301-ton merchant vessel launched at Shields in 1801. She became a whaler and made a voyage to New Zealand and the South Seas whale fisheries for Hurry & Co. She was wrecked while outbound from Liverpool in October 1808. Career ''Alexander'' entered ''Lloyd's Register'' in 1801 with owner Hurry & Co., W. Sharp, master, changing to T.Robson, and trade, London-Baltic. In 1802 her master changed to R. Rhodes and her trade changed to London-South Seas. She was valued at £7,200. Captain Robert Rhodes sailed ''Alexander'' from Britain on 18 January 1802 for the New South Wales fishery. She was at Isle of Mayo on 10 March, and St Iago, both Cape Verde islands, on 18 March. She arrived at Rio de Janeiro on 20 April. There she underwent calefaction. By October she was at Norfolk Island. In March 1803 she was in New Zealand, but by May she was back at Norfolk Island. While ''Alexander'' was at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, a 16-year old Māori named Teina joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bligh
William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was a Vice-admiral (Royal Navy), Royal Navy vice-admiral and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New South Wales from 1806 to 1808. He is best known for his role in the Mutiny on the Bounty, mutiny on HMS ''Bounty'', which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons behind the mutiny continue to be debated. After being set adrift in ''Bounty''s Launch (boat), launch by the mutineers, Bligh and those loyal to him stopped for supplies on Tofua, losing one man to native attacks. Bligh and his men reached Timor alive, after a journey of . On 13 August 1806, Bligh was appointed governor of the British colony of New South Wales, with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps. His actions directed against the trade resulted in the so-called Rum Rebellion, during which Bligh was placed under arrest on 26 January 1808 by the New South Wales Corps and deposed from his c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
