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  2. Tyerelore Culture

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tyerelore.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Tyerelore Culture. The Maynard family of Cape Barren Island, 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/6677). Palawa communities in Tasmania today are a result of the meeting of Aboriginal Tasmanians with the first Europeans in the region of Tasmania. Europeans began to

  3. Cataraqui

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cataraqui.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cataraqui. Grave of 245 bodies from the Cataraqui disaster, sketched by Bishop Nixon in 1845 (ALMFA, SLT). Cataraqui, full-rigged ship of 802 tons, was wrecked on the south-west coast of King Island on 4 August 1845 with the loss of 400 lives, the

  4. Frederick

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Frederick.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Frederick. Frederick, brig of about 121 tons, was built at Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour using convict labour. In January 1834 ten convicts seized the vessel as she was preparing to sail for Hobart. The incomplete brig sprang a leak in gales and

  5. Deloraine

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Deloraine.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Deloraine. Undated postcard of Deloraine (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Deloraine, a town situated on the banks of the Meander River and lying at the foothills of the Great Western Tiers, was named after Sir William Deloraine from the poem 'Lay of the

  6. Devonport

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Devonport.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Devonport. Holiday mood at Devonport, (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Devonport originally comprised two small townships which were set aside as reserves in 1850 – Torquay on the east and Formby on the western side of the Mersey River. The river was

  7. Geeveston

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Geeveston.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Geeveston. Undated postcard of Geeveston (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). In 1849 William Geeves settled the site of Geeveston. The early years proved a struggle, dense bush a barrier to settlement. The construction of the Speedwell timber mill in 1871

  8. Glenorchy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Glenorchy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Glenorchy. 'Glenorchy from Elwick', c 1878 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Glenorchy is located in the undulating plains which form a narrow band between the River Derwent and the Mount Wellington range, from the southern New Town Rivulet to the

  9. Huonville

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Huonville.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Huonville. Undated postcard of Huonville, showing the bridge, hotel, and orchards in the background (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Despite its closeness to Hobart, Huonville was not permanently settled until 1839 when Thomas and William Walton took up a

  10. Sheffield

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sheffield.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Sheffield. Postcard of Sheffield, with Mount Roland in the background (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Sheffield is a scenic rural town servicing the agriculturally rich Kentish district between Devonport and Cradle Mountain. Surveyor JM Dooley named it

  11. Whitemark

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Whitemark.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Whitemark. Whitemark in 1955 (AOT, PH30/1/1211/7). Whitemark, population 170, is the administrative centre of Flinders Island, largest of the Furneaux Group. It contains the Municipality of Flinders Council Chambers, the Multi-Purpose Centre, post
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