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  2. Winifred Curtis

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Curtis.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Winifred Curtis. Winifred Mary Curtis AM (1905–2005), botanist and teacher, was born in London and migrated to Tasmania in 1939. She was employed at the University of Tasmania, only the second woman appointed, until her retirement in 1966. Her

  3. Florence and George Perrin

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Perrin.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Florence and George Perrin. Florence (1884–1952) and George Edward (1881–1970) Perrin, enthusiastic bushwalkers, pioneer skiers, photographers, philanthropists, farmers, fund-raisers, war-workers. George was the son of draper Walter Perrin and

  4. Robert Carl Sticht

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sticht.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Robert Carl Sticht. Mount Lyell mine, about 1900 (AOT, PH30/1/4803). Robert Carl Sticht, (1856–1922), mine manager, was born in America and trained as a metallurgist before moving to Tasmania in 1895 to work for the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway

  5. Abel Janszoon Tasman

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tasman.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Abel Janszoon Tasman. F Ottens, 'Anthony van Diemens Land', 1726 (ALMFA, SLT). Abel Janszoon Tasman (c 1603–c 1659), maritime explorer and servant of the Dutch East India Company, was well qualified to command the Heemskerck and Zeehaen which

  6. Fingal

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Fingal.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Fingal. Undated postcard of Fingal (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Fingal, a small rural town lying in the Fingal Valley in north-eastern Tasmania, was named by the surveyor, Roderic O'Connor, about 1824. Prior to European settlement, Aborigines from the

  7. Orford–Triabunna

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Orford.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Orford–Triabunna. Louisa Anne Meredith, 'Prosser's River', 1879 (ALMFA, SLT). Spring Bay was an early whaling port, and settlers arrived by 1830, with land grants given to Captains Vicary and MacLaine near Triabunna, and Walpole at Orford.

  8. Mining

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Mining.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Mining. Undated postcard of the Magnet mine (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Mining began in Tasmania long before the arrival of the first European settlers in 1803, for the Tasmanian Aborigines were engaged in the small-scale mining of flints, salt and

  9. Piners

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Piners.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Piners. A piners' camp near Zeehan, photographed by JW Beattie (AOT, PH30/1/1905). Piners have harvested Huon pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii) since early settlement. An extremely durable rainforest timber unique to Tasmania, it has been highly prized

  10. Lloyd Robson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Robson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lloyd Robson. Geoffrey Stilwell, Lloyd Robson and Shirley Eldershaw at the launch of A History of Tasmania, 1983. (AOT, PH30/1/9400). Leslie Lloyd Robson (1931–90), historian, grew up on the north coast of Tasmania and was educated at Devonport

  11. Electrolytic Zinc Works

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Electrolytic%20zinc%20works.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Electrolytic Zinc Works. The Zinc Works, 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/9067). The Electrolytic Zinc Works were established by the Electrolytic Zinc Company at Risdon beside the Derwent in 1916, due to a number of circumstances: the First World War disrupted the
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