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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
  12. Brier Holme

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Brier%20Holme.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Brier Holme. Oscar Larsen, the sole survivor (AOT, PH30/1/4129). Brier Holme, iron barque 921 tons, sailed from London for Hobart on 21 July 1904, but failed to arrive. In January 1905 wreckage from the vessel was found near Port Davey on the west
  13. Sydney Cove

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sydney%20Cove.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Sydney Cove. Sydney Cove, a merchant ship, was wrecked at Preservation Island, in the Furneaux Group, on 9 February 1797, while carrying a speculative cargo from Calcutta to Port Jackson, New South Wales. In the aftermath of the wreck, including
  14. Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study (CDAH) | Menzies…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/menzies/research/prevention-health-services-wellbeing/childhood-determinants-of-adult-health-study
    3 Sep 2024: Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study (CDAH). Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study (CDAH). The CDAH study is a cohort study with follow-up of 8,498 children who participated in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey
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    Heat stress during strawberry fruit ripening | Tasmanian Institute of …

    https://www.utas.edu.au/tia/research/research-projects/project/horticulture/heat-stress-during-strawberry-fruit-ripening
    31 Oct 2024: Heat stress during strawberry fruit ripening. Heat stress during strawberry fruit ripening. Project details. Status: Current. Project team. Lead:. Team:. Funding and partners. Funding:. Hort Innovation - Frontiers. ‘Sustainably growing
  16. Killiecrankie Diamond

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Killiecrankie%20Diamond.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Killiecrankie Diamond. Killiecrankie Bay, 1955 (AOT, PH30/1/1211/3). Killiecrankie Diamond is a misnomer for gem-quality topaz pebbles found at Killiecrankie Bay, Flinders Island. The topaz from this site was probably one of the earliest gems or
  17. Environmental History

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Environmental%20history.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Environmental History. AS Murray, 'Huon Belle', 1900 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Differing attitudes to land use, largely a product of individual experience, contemporary ideology and political-economic conditions, have been central to Tasmanian
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    Optimising Active Learning

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/information-and-communication-technology/optimising-active-learning
    24 May 2024: Optimising Active Learning. Optimising Active Learning for Efficient Data Annotation. Optimising Active Learning. Degree type. PhD. Closing date. 1 October 2024. Campus. Hobart. Citizenship requirement. Domestic / International. About the research
  19. Cape Grim Massacre

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cape%20Grim%20Massacre.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cape Grim Massacre. The massacre took place just north of the present day Cape Grim, adjacent to two small islands called the Doughboys. It was a result of violence initiated by the Van Diemen's Land Company. In December 1827, Aborigines were killed
  20. Study of Economics

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Study%20of%20Economics.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Study of Economics. The distant spectator will take Tasmanian economics to be an ox-bow lake of the great stream of economic thought. The truer observer would compare it to an ephemeral river, episodically spilling fast and strong into the main
  21. Hobart Gas Company

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Hobart%20Gas%20Company.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Hobart Gas Company. Gas lighting in Macquarie Street, Hobart, 1878 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). The Hobart Gas Company was formed in 1854 to establish a gasworks to lighten the city streets. Technological apparatus and skilled workers were imported
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