I didn’t realize that there were so many swans in Port Phillip. However, I’ve since learned Swan Bay is across the bay on the Bellarine Peninsula opposite, so named by Matthew Flinders for the huge number of black swans he found there. Apparently they continue to frequent the place in...
George Arden, the young editor of thePort Phillip Gazettehad a particularly ‘troubled’ relationship with the resident Judge, John Walpole Willis. You might remember that in September 1841 Arden had been ‘bound over’ against adverse comments about the judge prompted by a letter that he publishe...
Port Phillip Bay; Australia; dredging; waves; currents; wave–current interaction; SCHISM; WWMIII; hydrodynamic modelling1. Introduction Port Phillip Bay is the largest coastal lagoon system located in Victoria, Australia. It was formed about 18,000 years ago during the glacial maxima time due to...
a book which has firmer evidentiary foundations than this one. But I guess that’s part of the challenge of biography: finding the individual person while confronting the dearth of evidence. Even Phillip Bentley admits that perhaps they have not unpacked...
Chapter 1, ‘Beginnings’ explains the construction of London’s Underground. I am amazed that it commenced so early, opening in 1863 -( about twenty years after the opening of the little Port Phillip courthouse shown on the top of my blog!) Privately owned London railway companies linked mos...