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  2. Rajah Quilt

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rajah%20quilt.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rajah Quilt. The Rajah Quilt is the only known surviving convict shipboard quilt. Itwas made by female transportees aboard the ship Rajah on the 105-day voyage from England to Hobart Town. The Rajah embarked from Woolwich on 5 April 1841, and 179
  3. St Patrick's College

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/St%20Patricks.htm
    25 Jun 2012: St Patrick's College. St Patrick's College, Launceston, evolved from a threefold Catholic tradition beginning with the opening of Sacred Heart College by the Presentation Sisters in 1873. The Christian Brothers opened St Patrick's College in York
  4. Place

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/J/Jones%20Lloyd.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lloyd Jones. Lloyd Lindsay Jones MBE (1916–2004), aviator, photographer, visionary, adventurer, was a member of 92 and 93 Beaufighter Squadrons during the Second World War. The first aviator to take aerial photographs of the magnificent rugged
  5. George Town

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/George%20Town.htm
    25 Jun 2012: George Town. FR Nixon, 'George Town', 1857 (ALMFA, SLT). George Town was first settled in November 1804 when Paterson's party arrived in the north and established a base at Outer Cove. In 1805 most moved to the western side of the Tamar, and by 1811
  6. Lake Pedder

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Lake%20Pedder.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lake Pedder. George Collingridge and WC Piguenit, 'Lake Pedder', 1888 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Lake Pedder in south-western Tasmania was a beautiful, isolated lake formed about 10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age. The shallow, nine square
  7. Place Names

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Place%20names.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Place Names. An example of an Aboriginal place name: Ringarooma, undated (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Tasmania is blessed with some fascinating descriptive place names like Horrible Hollow Hill, Mouldy Hole, Stinking Creek, Humbug Point, Haunted Bay,
  8. Port Sorell

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Port%20Sorell.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Port Sorell. Louisa Anne Meredith, 'Badger Head, and the Sister Islands, from Poyston, Port Sorell', 1852 (ALMFA, SLT). Port Sorell was the home of the Punnilerpanner band of Tasmanians, with midden sites up to 4000 years old. The Rubicon river
  9. Lyne Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Lyne%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lyne Family. The Lyne family, William, Sarah and five children, arrived in Hobart in 1826, and received a 1500-acre land grant on the east coast, named Apsley (later Apslawn). Gradually their stock of sheep and cattle increased, despite problems
  10. Gale Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Gale%20Family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gale Family. Building the first road to Marrawah (AOT, PH30/1/1552). Aaron and Elizabeth Gale with four adolescent children arrived from Hampshire on the Coromandel in 1853. All obtained short-term positions immediately, and by 1856 were living at
  11. Blythe Star

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Blythe%20Star.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Blythe Star. Blythe Star, steel motor vessel of 321 tons gross, sailed from Hobart for King Island under charter to the Tasmanian Transport Commission on 12 October 1973 but failed to arrive. After the most extensive air and sea search conducted in
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