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Davidson Whaling Station
Davidson Whaling Station is a heritage-listed former whaling station at Edrom on the far South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1896. The property is owned by the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History Shore-based whaling at Twofold Bay began in 1828 and was undertaken by numerous whaling groups, the main ones being the Imlay brothers, Benjamin Boyd and the Davidson family. Old open boat techniques were in continuous use at Twofold Bay for over 100 years. The Davidson family began whaling around 1860. A tryworks for boiling down the blubber was built inside Kiah Inlet, possibly on the site of an earlier tryworks, where whales could be drawn up on a sandy beach. In 1896 George Davidson built the cottage, Loch Garra, above the tryworks on 17 acres of leasehold land. This land now comprises the majority of the historic site. In 1920 when Davidson applied to co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edrom, New South Wales
Edrom is a locality in the Bega Valley Shire of New South Wales, Australia. Much of the area is within Beowa National Park. At the , Edrom had a population of zero. Heritage listings Edrom has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Davidson Whaling Station Davidson Whaling Station is a heritage-listed former whaling station at Edrom on the far South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1896. The property is owned by the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage. It was ... References {{authority control Localities in New South Wales Bega Valley Shire Whaling stations in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towamba River
The Towamba River is a perennial river which transitions to an open mature wave dominated barrier estuary, located in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Course and features The Towamba River rises near Coolangubra Mountain, below Mount Marshall on the eastern slopes of the South Coast Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, approximately north of Coolangubra Mountain. The river flows generally southeast and then northeast, joined by twelve tributaries including the Mataganah Creek and Wog Wog River. Its mouth, east of Boydtown, is a barrier estuary known as Kiah Inlet, which empties into Nullica Bay, the southern bight of Twofold Bay in the Tasman Sea. The river descends over its course. The catchment area of the river is with a volume of over a surface area of , at an average depth of . At the locality of Kiah, the Princes Highway crosses the Towamba River. The river flows through extensive parts of the South East Forest National Park in its upper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whaling In Australia
Whaling in Australian waters began in 1791 when five of the 11 ships in the Third Fleet (Australia), Third Fleet landed their passengers and freight at Sydney Cove and then left Port Jackson to engage in whaling and seal hunting off the coast of Australia and New Zealand. The two main species hunted by such vessels in the early years were Right whale, right and Sperm whale, sperm whales. humpback whale, Humpback, bowhead and other whale species would later be taken. Whaling went on to be a major maritime industry in Australia providing work for hundreds of ships and thousands of men and contributing export products worth £4.2 million by 1850. Modern whaling using harpoon guns and iron hulled catchers was conducted in the twentieth century from shore-based stations in Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. A government inquiry into the industry in 1978 resulted in a ban on whaling in Australia and a commitment to whale conservation, whale protection. Whale watching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boydtown, New South Wales
Boydtown is a village on Twofold Bay near Eden, on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia. It was the original settlement in the bay, founded by Benjamin Boyd in 1843 to service his properties on the Monaro plains. The remains of whaling stations and the local landmark Boyd's Tower, a stone spotting tower used to look for whales, are all nearby. Boyd imported sandstone from Sydney to construct a lighthouse on south head. He also commissioned inns and churches, housing and store rooms, wharves and stock-yards. When Boyd's finances collapsed, the town was abandoned from the 1840s until the first renovation of the Seahorse Inn in the 1930s. In modern times, Boydtown is the smaller of the two towns in the bay, consisting mainly of housing, tourist caravan parks and the more recently (2006) refurbished Seahorse Inn. See also * Beowa National Park Beowa National Park, formerly Ben Boyd National Park, is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, south of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswald Walters Brierly
Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (19 May 1817 – 14 December 1894), was an English marine painter from an old Cheshire family and he was born at Chester. Life He was the son of Thomas Brierly, a medical doctor and amateur artist, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester on 19 May 1817. After a general grounding in art at the academy of Henry Sass in Bloomsbury, he went to Plymouth to study naval architecture and rigging. He exhibited drawings of two men-of-war at Plymouth, and , at the Royal Academy in 1839. He then spent some time in the study of navigation, and in 1841 started on a voyage to Australia with his friend Benjamin Boyd in the latter's yacht ''Wanderer''. Boyd established himself in New South Wales as a merchant banker, pastoralist, shipowner, whaler and member of parliament. Brierly lived in southern New South Wales in a new settlement named Boydtown where he managed Boyd's whaling operations until 1848. Boyd even went so far as to have a hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
984 - Davidson Whaling Station - SHR Plan No 2937 (5000659b100)
Year 984 ( CMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – German boy-king Otto III (4 years old) is seized by the deposed Henry II, Duke of Bavaria ("the Wrangler"), who has recovered his duchy and claims the regency as a member of the Ottonian Dynasty. But Henry is forced to hand over Otto to his mother, empress consort Theophanu. * King Ramiro III of León loses his throne to Bermudo II (the rival king of Galicia), who also becomes ruler of the entire Kingdom of León (modern-day Spain). Japan * Fall – Emperor En'yū abdicates the throne in favor of his 16-year-old son Kazan after a 15-year reign. En'yū retires and becomes a Buddhist priest. By topic Technology * Qiao Weiyue, a Chinese engineer, innovates the first known use of the double-gated canal pound lock during the Song dynasty, for adjusting different water levels in segments of the Grand Canal in China. Religion * August 20 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
