7 Unique Facts about Incredible Tasmania
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1. On November 24, 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania. Tasman named it Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, after his sponsor, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. The British shortened the name to Van Diemen’s Land. It was officially renamed Tasmania on January 1, 1856. Until late in the 18th century only the south-east of Van Diemen’s Land was explored. It was not confirmed to be an island until 1798. In the 19th century it was Britain’s prime penal colony with around 75,000 convicts sent there. In all it accounted for 40 per cent of all convicts sent to Australia.
2. Tasmania is an island state of Australia. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 islands. The state has a population of around 519,100 as of June 2016, just over 40% of which resides in the Greater Hobart precinct. Promoted as a natural state, protected areas of Tasmania cover about 42% of the land area of the state, which includes national parks and World Heritage Sites. About 2,500 km south of Tasmania island lies Antarctica, which is nearer than areas in the northern Australian mainland.
3. Hobart is the capital city of Tasmania, located in the south of the Island. And while Tasmania is known to be one of the wettest states in Australia, it may surprise some to know that Hobart is actually the second driest capital city in Australia, second to Adelaide. Most people think that Tasmania is a wet and damp place, yet in Hobart it’s not the case. Hobart receives an average rainfall of 614mm of rain every year, unlike Brisbane which gets 1021mm per year.
4. Five of Tasmania’s convict sites, including Port Arthur, are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The rest are Brickendon and Woolmers Estates, Darlington Probation Station, Cascades Female Factory and Coal Mines Historic Site.
5. The Tasmanian Devil, which is only found in Tasmania, is the largest carnivorous marsupial. Officially listed as an endangered species, new research shows that Tasmanian Devils are developing a resistance to the facial tumour disease that has heavily influenced the decline of the species by more than 80% since first found 20 years ago.
6. Huon pine trees located in Western Tasmania some of the oldest living things on earth. The Huon Pine tree grows very slowly; a 20-meter tree could be thousands of years old. While the oldest individual tree or stem on the site now may be 1000 to 2000 years old, the organism itself has been living there continuously for 10,500 years.
7. Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world, monitored by the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station. The lack of pollution is due to the position of Tasmania in the Southern Ocean, far from other land masses. The Cape Grim station is located in the path of the Roaring Forties, which are strong westerly winds that carry pollution-free air thousands of kilometres across the Southern Ocean.
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Crime Scene (2019) Video artwork by Julie Gough, Tasmania
Julie Gough
Crime Scene, 2019
4K video, 16:9, colour, sound
Duration: 18:31 min
edited by Angus Ashton
Exhibited in CRIME SCENE, group exhibition, Longford Town Hall, Tasmania, March 2019. Supported by 10 Days on the Island Festival. A component of the (ongoing) THE LONGFORD PROJECT, with Noelene Lucas, Liz Day, Anna Gibbs.
CRIME SCENE
Julie Gough
On Saturday 16th July 1825, between 5 and 6 pm, one of my ancestors, Dalrymple Briggs, ran, crying Murder, from a hut located beside what was then termed the Lake River, on what is now Brickendon estate, near Longford.
Dalrymple was about, in her own words, 12 years of age. Little is known of her early life, so these eye witness accounts, stands as key testimony. Now held in the National Library of Australia, Manuscripts section, they are invaluable in any attempt to piece together not only what happened that day, but to contribute to some understanding of her life and frontier times before and after this brutal event.
The accounts recited to the Magistrates, Peter Archer Mulgrave and James Simpson in Launceston on 5th and 8th August by William Brumby, James Thornloe and Dalrymple Briggs are the basis for this video artwork that simply presents their statements overlaid upon footage of the scene of the crime, the crime scene, as it now stands. Thornloe and Brumby are notable for their willingness to testify as witnesses to a crime against an Aboriginal person. Place is also witness, permanent and mute, to this violent event, one of countless enacted against Aboriginal people in colonial Van Diemen’s Land.
Dalrymple Briggs was the daughter of Woretemoeteyenner, a Trawlwoolway woman from Tebrikunna, Cape Portland, north east Lutruwita (Tasmania). Sometime in the 1790s, as a teenager Woretemoeteyenner came into the hands of the Bedfordshire emigrant, George Briggs, who entered Bass Strait sealing grounds at that time, for that trade. Dalrymple was one of more than 5 children born to Woretemoeteyenner and Briggs.
Said, in her obituary, to have been born on little Kangaroo Island near Flinders Island, around 1810, “Dalrymple, a native girl” was baptized by Reverend Robert Knopwood on 18 March 1814 at Port Dalrymple. Exactly three years earlier on 18 March 1811, Knopwood married Bridget Riley to Jacob Mountgarrett, and baptized two “native boys” of VDL, Charles Mountgarrett Launceston, and William Lyttleton Quamby. The whereabouts of these boys since is unknown.
Dalrymple outlived all but one of her known siblings, John Briggs, who relocated to Victoria in the 1850s. “List of children with settlers, 1827” records Mary Briggs, aged 8, living with William Bray (of indifferent character) and Eliza Briggs aged 11, living with William Jones (of good character. (TAHO CSO 1/122a). Eliza died, age: 20, in the benevolent Asylum, Launceston on 11 July 1837, and Mary, born 1817, died at age 22 years on 31 July 1839. Their lives were also overshadowed by extreme violence inflicted upon them
Dalrymple survived being shot by Jacob Mountgarrett, who with his wife Bridget, have been misconstrued in many 20th century accounts as her kindly adoptive parents. This account reveals the reality of their relationship with Dalrymple, and likely other Aboriginal children in their “care”. William Brumby swore, about Mountgarrett, in his statement of 5 August 1825: “I asked him why he shot the black Girl, he replied why cannot I correct my black servant without you interfering”.
Dalrymple also survived to raise, with Thomas Johnson, 13 children born between 1826 and 1854. In 1841 Dalrymple miraculously successfully petitioned the Colonial Government to return her mother home from exile in horrendous conditions at Wybalenna, the Aboriginal internment camp on Flinders Island. Woretemoeteyenner lived her remaining 7 years with her daughter, son in law, and grandchildren. My ancestor Charlotte was born in Perth and baptized in Longford. With her parents and siblings she moved west to the district of Latrobe, where our extended family remain.
Nearly 200 Tasmanian Aboriginal children lived with colonists over the first 40 years post British invasion of this island, irrevocably changing its future and our Aboriginal demographics. Their lives are little known, most perished young, or otherwise ‘disappear’. Perpetually missing, they are spectres, not to be overlooked or erased. To remain haunted is to remember, and I keep seeking them, these hidden figures of history.
With thanks to my family and forebears, to William and James Brumby and James Thornloe (1825), and to Richard and Louise Archer (2019).
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Sealasash at Woolmers Estate
Sealasash working on World Heritage listed Woolmers Estate at Longford in Tasmania. Sealasash installed their draught sealing window renewal system on two large wooden double hung sash windows in the dining room of the historic property. Some contents of the room had to be removed for the duration of the work due to their historical value. The project was overseen by expert heritage architect Joanna Lyngcoln.
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Chesfield Church, Near Gravely
Chesfield church, near Graveley, is one of several ruined medieval churches in the county. The ruins here date from the early 14th century, but documentary evidence indicates that a church dedicated to St Etheldreda existed by 1216, and it was almost certainly founded even earlier. In 1445 Chesfield parish was united with Graveley, and a licence to demolish the church was eventually granted in 1750. The simple rectangular nave and chancel, and a small later chapel at the south-east corner survive and the entire site has recently been cleared and consolidated after many years of neglect.
Take the B197 from Stevenage to Graveley, turn right at the garage into Church Lane and follow this for about 1¼ miles to the church. The site is on the north side of the road near Chesfield Park. It is on private property, but it can be easily viewed from the public highway, grid reference TL 2474 2792.
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Airport: Mangalore Airport
Date: May 22nd 2010.
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