In Tasmania (45 page)

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Authors: Nicholas Shakespeare

oldest human habitation

remoteness

self-government

time

200th anniversary of settlement

Tasmania Museum

‘Tasmaniacs'

Tasmanian cave spider

Tasmanian devil (
Sarcophilus harrisii
)

Tasmanian emus

Tasmanian Government Thylacine Bounty Scheme

Tasmanian Kennel Club

Tasmanian Tiger Research Centre

Tasmanian tiger (
Thylacinus cynocephalus
)

Tasmanian Times

Tasmaniana Library, Hobart

Tatum, Miss (governess)

Taylor, Charles

Taylor, George P.

Teddington

Teddy (Ivy's brother-in-law)

Telegraph Hotel, St Helen's

temperance societies

Temperata Antipodum Nobis Incognita

Terra Australis Incognita

terrorism

Theatre Royal, Hobart

Thingvellir, Iceland

Thomas, Captain Bartholomew

Thompson, Arthur

Thompson, Constance

Thompson, Estelle Merle

Thompson, John Willis

thylacine
see
Tasmanian tiger Tierney, Mike

Tierra del Fuego

Tiger Man

tiger-snakes

Times, The

Timler

Tinderbox, Hobart

Toarra Marra Monah

Todd, Ann

Togari

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Tom Thumb
(a rowing boat)

Tomkinson, Sergeant

Tonbridge School, Kent

Tongerlongetter

Black Line and

burial

death

Flinders Island, on

loss of his forearm

Robinson and

Tongs' butter factory, North Motton

Tongs, Laurie

Toorah
, SS

Total Abstinence societies

Tourism Tasmania

Tragedy Hill, Campbell Town

Tramp, Count

transportation

Travers, Clara

Travers, Matthew

Travers, William

Trawlulwuy nation

Trefoil Island

Triabunna

trial by jury

Trollope, Anthony

Australia and New Zealand

Trollope, Reverend William

Trowenna (Aboriginal name for Tasmania)

True Colonist

Truganini

appearance

death

Last Tasmanian

lives with Mrs Dandridge

shell necklaces

William Lanne and

Turner, Liz

Twain, Mark

Tyreddeme people

 

Ulverstone

Ulverstone Gentlemen's Club

Ulverstone museum

Union Jack

United States

University of Tasmania

Updike, John

 

Vale of Rasselas

Van Diemen, Anthony

Van Diemen's Land
see also
Tasmania

alcohol, always linked with

convicts sent to

French scientific force mapping

independence (1825)

island

name changed to Tasmania (1856)

occupied to prevent French occupation

penal colony

probation system

Van Diemen's Land Company

Venn, Chrissie

Venus
(a brig)

Victoria, Australia

Victoria Cross

Viney, Margaret

 

Wainewright, Thomas

Wales

Walker, George Washington

wallabies

Wallarrange tribe

Ward, John

Ward, Mary Augusta (‘Mrs Humphrey Ward' née Arnold),

Helbeck of Bannidale

Warner Brothers

Warner, Jack

Warren, Bev

Washington, George

wasp, gall-forming

Waterloo Hotel, Hobart

Waterloo Point

wattle

black

silver

Watts, Jobi

Waugh, Alec:
The Loom of Youth

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Webb, Edna

Webb, Murray

Wedding Rehearsal
(film)

Weindorfer, Gustav

Weldborough

Wellington, Duke of

Wells, H.G.

West Devon Agricultural Association

West, John

Western Tiers

Westward Ho!

whales

Whiley, Mr and Mrs Horace

Whitbread, Samuel

White, Edward

White, Patrick:
A Fringe of Leaves

Whitemark, Flinders Island

wilderness

William Potter & Son

Williams, Cecil

Williams, Geoff

Williams, Patrick

Williamson, Christine

Williamson, Henry

Willis, Fred

Wilson's Promontory

Windeward Bound
(a brigantine)

Windschuttle, Keith

The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume 1, Van Diemen's Land
1803-1847

Wineglass Bay

Wolders, Robert

Wombat Glen

wombats

Woodman

Woolnorth, near Cape Grim

Woretermoeteyenner

World Heritage Area

Wrest Point Hotel and Casino, Hobart

Wright, Peter

Wybalenna, Flinders Island

Wynyard

 

Yarde, Devon

York Town

European settlement

Young, Amy (née Kemp; Kemp's daughter)

Young, Lieutenant Wharton Thomas (Kemp's son-in-law)

Ypres

1
Flinders was also the first to give the name Australia to what had previously been New Holland.

2
The response of Kemp's father may have inspired these lines in William Moncrieff's 1830 play,
Van Diemen's Land
: ‘Hence from my doors! I do renounce – disclaim you! The husband of a convict shall be no son of mine!'

3
In an unlikely story passed on by his daughter, Kemp instantly announced to his wife: ‘My dear, the Colonel is sending in his papers and I am buying his commission.'
‘Very well, my dear, if you want to be Colonel of the Regiment do so, but you will have to choose between the regiment and me. Much as I love you, I will not face three months more of seasickness on the way home for any man on earth.'
‘Very well, dear, then I will give up the regiment.'

4
In Tasmania, it remains a badge of honour to drink like a fish. Stocky batsman David Boon is still believed to hold the record for consuming 52 cans of beer on a flight to London in 1989.

5
Among the plumbers and glaziers who worked on the extension at Mount Vernon was possibly James Woodcock Graves, a former composer from Wigton who one evening in 1824 had sat down and written impromptu the first five verses of ‘D'ye ken John Peel'. In 1842, he was detained for apparent insanity at an asylum in New Norfolk.

6
In the 1420s, Chinese eunuch admirals accurately mapped south-west and north Australia. The first Briton to reach mainland Australia was William Dampier in January 1688, north of Broome.

7
Meredith's eldest son, also George, after violently quarrelling with his father, went to live on Kangaroo Island with an Aboriginal girl, Sal. He was killed by a jealous Aborigine.

8
While they were camped in Elizabeth Street, Kemp's friend the artist John Glover took some sketches and used them in various paintings.

9
North Motton's most famous son is A.W. Knight, an engineer of surpassing ability, who in a paper before his death remarked on the oddity of ‘
North
Motton' in the absence of any other ‘Motton'. The name possibly derived from one William Walter Motton who settled thereabouts in 1854.

10
Part of the reclaimed land on the Hobart wharf is made up of millions of apricot stones from the jam factory.

11
GBS said of him that Edward was his favourite uncle as he never met him.

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