Focuses on the historical importance of the Hobart-Launceston road of Tasmania. First major artery in the settlement of Van Diemen's Land; New South Wales Governor Lachlan Macquarie's trek of the terrain; Construction of the road; Naming of a chain of townships along the way; Launch of a ...
Image: Jim Davidson Australian postcard collection, 1880-1980, National Library of Australia 1895, Launceston, Tasmania Pioneering hydro-electricity Hydro-electricity brought Siemens power generation into the southern hemisphere with the region's first plant installed at Duck Reach near Launceston. Generato...
Cataract Gorge is a piece of wilderness just 15 minutes walk from Launceston city center. Here you’ll find many attractions such as the world’s longest single span chairlift. Day 1 Located at historic Salamanca Place, Salamanca market is a major tourist attraction in Tasmania and attracts thou...
Geographical and historical treatment of Tasmania, including maps and a survey of its people, economy, and government.
Hobart, largest city, chief port, and capital of Tasmania, Australia. Located in the southeastern corner of the state on the west bank of the River Derwent estuary (2 miles [3 km] wide), 12 miles (19 km) above its mouth, the city ranges along steep footh
Despite often venomous public debate between homoeopathic and allopathic physicians, the new movement in Tasmania recorded its greatest achievements within a year: the establishment of the Hobart Homoeopathic Hospital in 1899 and the Launceston Homoeopathic Hospital in 1900, both state-sanctioned and ...
It was a rather indirect route to Melbourne from Port Fairy via Launceston. THE ABORIGINES Three aborigines from Port Fairy arrived in town, via Launceston, on Tuesday evening last, having been forwarded by Capt Fyans, from Port Fairy in charge of a trooper of the Border Police. Their names...
Launcestonedge conditionsThe fifteenth biennial conference of the Australasian urban history/planning history group was convened by the School of Architecture, Environments and Design at the University of Tasmania at Inveresk in Launceston, Tasmania from 5鈥 7 February 2020. The conference was a ...
Andrew Peek, University of Tasmania at Launceston Revised bibliography Bruce Bennett. Western Australian Writing: A Bibliography. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1990. 334 pages. William Schenck, Library of Congress First order of the first order... Richard D. Jordan and Peter Pierce, ...
Hooker抯 Flora Tasmaniae and the Linnean Society of London), and the natural history illustrations of the convict artist William Buelow Gould (18013), held by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery of Launceston (Gould抯 works are also held in most major galleries and libraries of Australia...