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98 unusual facts about Tasmania


2009 Falken Tasmania Challenge

It contained Rounds 7 and 8 of the series and was held on the weekend of May 29–31 at Symmons Plains Raceway, near Launceston, in northern Tasmania.

Alexander McAulay

Alexander McAulay (1863–1931) was an explorer of Clifford biquaternion theory and was the first professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania.

Allocotoceras

Allocotoceras is an endocerid from the Lower Ordovician (upper Canadian) of Australia (Tasmania), included in the Endoceratidae, based on small, straight or gently curved siphuncles.

Anne Darquier

Anne Darquier (1930–September 1970), a psychiatrist, was the daughter of the French fascist Louis Darquier de Pellepoix and his Tasmanian wife, Myrtle Jones.

Arthur Beck

Born in Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at Launceston Grammar School before becoming a boot importer.

Australian Maritime College Rugby Union Club

Australian Maritime College Rugby Union Football Club is a Rugby Union club in Tasmania.

Australian rules football in Tasmania

The "football" club formed in New Town in 1864 is believed to be the earliest in Tasmania - but disbanded soon after.

Bellerive

Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia, a suburb of the City of Clarence, part of the greater Hobart area

Bellerive, Tasmania

It stretches from Kangaroo Bay where it borders Rosny Park, around the curved shoreline of Bellerive Esplanade to Kangaroo Bluff, then down to Bellerive Beach and east to Second Bluff, where Bellerive borders Howrah.

Blundstone Footwear

The Cuthbertson brothers set about amalgamating their companies' manufacturing operations, retaining the Blundstone name for the company's tannery in South Hobart, and the current factory and headquarters in Moonah.

Brighton Transport Hub

These delays occur in addition to long travel times south of Bridgewater, where the main north/south railway line follows the River Derwent through Hobart's northern suburbs, across 21 level crossings which require slow train speeds to minimize the risk of accidents.

BRM P261

Although Courage failed to make a mark, Irwin finished the season by taking third place in Longford.

Cape Wickham

Cape Wickham is the most northerly point of King Island, Tasmania.

Chaim Rapoport

In 1987 Rapoport and his wife joined the community Kollel in Melbourne, Australia, where, in addition to his post graduate studies, he officiated and lectured in several communities, including the far flung Launceston in Tasmania.

Charles Culley

He died at the Hobart suburb of New Town and was survived by his wife, a daughter and four sons.

City of Glenorchy

The City has three Major commercial areas include Moonah, Glenorchy CBD and Claremont.

Claremont Village

Claremont Village is a small sub-regional shopping centre located on the corner of Main Road and Box Hill Road, in Claremont, Tasmania.

Clive Jenkins

Upon retiring, for a time Clive Jenkins ran a B&B in St Helens, Tasmania, before returning to Britain.

Coal River Valley

The Coal River Valley in located in the City of Clarence, Tasmania and is a primarily agrarian area to the west of the city, located between the townships of Cambridge, and Richmond.

De Havilland Fox Moth

Fox Moth VH-UQM Miss Currie was purchased by Victor Holyman for £1,450 and began operating over the 108-mile route over south-eastern Bass Strait between Launceston, Tasmania and Whitemark on Flinders Island in October 1932.

Diaphone

Low Head Lighthouse in Low Head, Tasmania possesses the only working Type G diaphone (one of the largest models constructed) in the world.

Donald H. Tuck

Tuck was born in Launceston, Tasmania, but his family soon moved to Hobart, where his father was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tasmania.

DOSA Football Club

The Dominic Old Scholars Association Football Club is an Australian Rules Football team currently based in North Hobart Tasmania.

Duke Trophy

By 1951 the AAIRC was formed and had separate associations for Speed Skating in Victoria and New South Wales and even for a short time in Tasmania, which was the venue for the 1952 Australian Championships.

Eastlands Shopping Centre

Eastlands is Tasmania's largest shopping centre, located on the eastern side of the Derwent River, situated in the shopping district of Rosny Park, within the greater area of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Edward J. Wasp

In this position Wasp developed, designed and implemented all slurry pipelines and process projects, including the Savage River iron ore pipeline in Tasmania, the Calaveras limestone pipeline in California, the Waipipi iron pipeline in New Zealand and the Black Mesa coal pipeline in Arizona.

Electoral division of Rumney

The division covers an area of 1,516 km² and includes a number of outer Hobart localities including; Lauderdale, Rokeby, Cambridge, Sorell, Richmond.

Elizabeth Thackery

Betty King is buried in the Methodist Chapel churchyard in Lawitta Road Magra, Tasmania (3 km north of New Norfolk), who died 7 August 1856, aged 89 years.

Emile Dechaineux

Dechaineux was born in Launceston, Tasmania, to a Belgian-born father, Florent Vincent Emile Lucien Dechaineux, and an Australian mother.

Eric Bedser

Despite being called to a Test Trial in 1950, in which Laker took 8 wickets for 2 runs, one of which was scored by Eric, he was never called to play in a Test himself: he played for England only once, in a first-class tour match in Tasmania.

Frederic Villiers

A world cruise followed in which he visited British India where he dined with the Viceroy, Lord Lytton at Simla, travelling on to Sydney, Tasmania, Auckland, Honolulu and San Francisco, and in 1882 was in Egypt to cover the Anglo-Egyptian War; he was present at Battle of Tel-el-Kebir.

Garthorpe, North Lincolnshire

After he was finally captured and sentenced at York Assizes, he was transported to Tasmania, Australia.

Glenorchy Cricket Club

Glenorchy Cricket Club (GCC) also known as the "Magpies" represent Glenorchy in Tasmania's Grade Cricket Competition.

Glenorchy Football Club

New Town changed its name to Glenorchy in 1957 after absorbing the already established club Glenorchy Rovers and relocated its headquarters to KGV Oval at Glenorchy in Hobart's northern suburbs in the same year, playing its first match at the venue on 4 May 1957 against Hobart.

Harish Sharma

He worked as a civil servant and as an insurance agent before departing for Tasmania in 1960, where he received the LL.B. from the University of Tasmania in 1964.

Henri Tebbitt

His pictures for a time were very popular with the public, and examples were acquired for the Brisbane, Hobart, Launceston, Bendigo and Geelong galleries.

Henry Dowling

In 1868 he accepted the secretaryship of the Launceston and Western Railway Company, and held that position until the year 1872, when this, the first of Tasmanian railways, was taken over by the Government.

HMAS Uralba

For the next few years she transported timber between Melbourne and Tasmania.

Hobart Bus Station

Hobart Bus Station is utilised by thousands of commuters every day, bringing city workers into Hobart from outlying suburbs, and the neighbouring cities of Clarence and Glenorchy, as well as nearby Richmond, Cambridge and Kingborough.

Hobart United

Hobart United plays their home games at Pontville Oval in Brighton, Tasmania.

Hydrogen Jukebox

The Australasian premiere was given on April 17, 2003 at the Mount Nelson Theatre (Hobart, Tasmania) by the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, conducted by Douglas Knehans and directed by Robert Jarman.

Invicta Bus Services

In July 1987 Invicta purchased Morse's Bus Service in Devonport, Tasmania.

Jack Badcock

Born in Exton, in the north of Tasmania near Deloraine, Badcock was the second youngest player for Tasmania in first-class cricket, making his debut in 1929-30 at the age of 15.

James Backhouse Walker

"The French in Van Diemen's Land" (Hobart, 1889); "The Settlement of Tasmania, comprising Papers read before the Royal Society of Tasmania" (Hobart, 1890); "The Discovery and Occupation of Port Dalrymple" (Hobart, 1890).

Jon Grunseth

Grunseth now lives in Barnes Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia, where he purchased property in 1997 and founded Lennonville Orchards, a large cherry-growing operation.

Joseph Gould

Gould was captured and sentenced to be exiled to Van Diemen's Land but his sentence was reduced to 9 months in prison.

Lampton Avenue, Hobart

The Road Starts at Goodwood, Tasmania and continues through the traffic lights intersection on the Brooker Highway.

Lauderdale, Tasmania

The town is situated on the eastern side of a thin Isthmus that connects the South Arm peninsula to the mainland.

Leader Dynamics Series T2 MK5

Leader Dynamics was subsequently sold off to a businessman who formed his own company, Australian Automatic Arms, and started to make the Leader rifles in Tasmania.

Levenhookia dubia

L. Rodway, author of a 1903 assessment of the Tasmanian flora, suggested this species could be found near Brighton, on Mount Field, and on the Bass Strait Islands, but these records are dubious and are not trusted.

Lottie Lyell

The travelling theatre company took Lyell on tour for the show and she performed across Australia, including Tasmania, and New Zealand.

Louth v Diprose

Solicitor Louis Donald Diprose (the plaintiff/respondent) was infatuated with Carol Mary Louth (the defendant/appellant), whom he had met in Launceston, Tasmania in 1981.

Lyons, Australian Capital Territory

The Deakin acid Volcanics can be observed in cuttings along Tuggeranong Parkway, and Devonport Street.

Mabel Miller

Dame Mabel Miller died on 30 December 1978, in a New Town, Tasmania nursing home, aged 72, from undisclosed causes, and was cremated.

Matthias Ungemach

He won another world title with the German eight in 1990 in Tasmania (Australia).

Mcgees Bridge

The Premier of Tasmania, Jim Bacon was present at the official opening ceremony which was also attended by the Minister for Infrastructure, Jim Cox, the Mayor of Sorell, Carmel Torenius, and members of Rod McGee's family.

The bridge provides a vital link between Hobart and two of Tasmania's principal tourist attractions - Port Arthur Historic Site on the Tasman Peninsula and the picturesque East Coast via the Tasman Highway.

Mersey Community Hospital

The Mersey Hospital, at Latrobe near Devonport in Tasmania is a campus of the North West Regional Hospital, the main healthcare facility for the North Western region of Tasmania, Australia.

Monmouth Land District

It includes the parts of Greater Hobart which are located to the east of the Derwent, such as Rosny Park and Bridgewater.

Mutants Down Under

Tasmania is the bastion of technologically advanced civilization, while the mainland is largely under the sway of the aboriginal Dreamtime philosophy.

New Town Eagles

Newtown Eagles Football Club is a soccer club which represents New Town in the Tasmanian Southern Premier League.

Oatlands Railway

The Oatlands Railway was a short branch of the Main Line from Launceston to Hobart in Tasmania, which was built to give rail access to the town of Oatlands.

Old Government Buildings, Wellington

All structural framing is Tasmanian hardwood (now augmented with pinus radiata), while weatherboards, flooring and finishing timbers are kauri.

Peter Bakowski

He has been writer-in-residence at the B.R. Whiting Library in Rome; the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris; the University of Macau; Soochow University, Jiangsu Province, China; the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre in Greenmount, Western Australia; the Hobart Writer’s Cottage in Battery Point, Tasmania; the Arthur Boyd Estate of “Bundanon” near Nowra, New South Wales; the Broken Hill Poetry Festival, New South Wales.

Polar city

High-population-density cities, to be built near the Arctic Rim and in Antarctica, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Patagonia, with sustainable energy and transportation infrastructure, will require substantial nearby agriculture.

Premiers of the Australian states

Currently South Australia, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory are the three states and territories that are run by Labor governments.

Victoria gained full responsible parliamentary government in 1855, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania in 1856, Queensland in 1859 and Western Australia (owing to its much smaller population) in 1890.

Prince of Wales Bay

Like its neighbouring suburb, Derwent Park, Prince of Wales Bay is home to light industry, and contains few houses.

Provideo

Provideo was exported to become a breeding stallion in Tasmania.

Rokeby Bypass

The Rokeby Bypass is a Clarence City Council proposed re-alignment of Rokeby Road that would bypass the Hobart suburb of Rokeby.

Rosa Iceberg

'Blushing Pink Iceberg' - A cultivar originating from Lilia Weatherly's garden in Tasmania in 1994 with white flowers flushed with pale pink.

Rosetta, Tasmania

The suburb is situated between the suburbs of Berriedale and Montrose and is approximately 15 minutes drive from Hobart.

Rosny College

Rosny College is a senior secondary college, located in Rosny, Tasmania.

Royal Hobart Showground

The venue of the Royal Hobart Show has varied over the past 184 years and has included Salamanca Place, Bridgewater, New Town, Tattersalls Park and even the Hobart Town Hall.

Royal Tasmania Regiment

The 12th/40th Battalion, The Royal Tasmania Regiment, is part of 9 Brigade, with Battalion headquarters based at Derwent Barracks, Glenorchy, Alpha Company based in Launceston and Bravo Company at Warrane on Hobart's Eastern Shore.

Samuel Prout

Another member of the family, John Skinner Prout made a career for himself painting and writing books in Tasmania.

Sandfly, Tasmania

The Longley Cricket Club, known as the Longley Bunyips, homeground is Sandfly Oval, located on Sandfly Road and the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Methodist Church of St. Luke's is located in Sandfly, although the Church has not been a congregation meeting place for many years, the Church is still under the care of the Anglican Parish of St Clement's, Kingston.

Saro Windhover

Between January 1933 and February 1934 operated a regular Bass Strait passenger service between Melbourne and Launceston, Tasmania via King Island.

Schooner Rebecca

After leaving a small party at Indented Head, Batman returned to Launceston, Tasmania on Rebecca and announced his treaty to the colony at large.

Sentinelese people

The Sentinelese and other indigenous Andamanese peoples are frequently described as negritos, a term which has been applied to various widely separated peoples in Southeast Asia, such as the Semang of the Malay Peninsula and the Aeta of the Philippines archipelago, as well as to other peoples in Australia including former populations of Tasmania.

Snug

Snug, Tasmania, a small town on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, in the municipality of Kingborough in Tasmania

South Arm Highway

The Highway starts at the Eastern Outlet near Mornington then travels south changing name to Rokeby Road and again to South Arm Road.

Southern Outlet, Hobart

The highway bypasses South Hobart and heads south into the mountainous terrain of Mount Nelson.

Tasmanian casino referendum, 1968

The Tasmanian casino referendum was a one-question referendum held on 14 December 1968, which concerned the granting of Australia's first casino licence to the Federal Group to operate the Wrest Point Hotel Casino in Sandy Bay.

Terence Cowley

Terence John "Terry" Cowley (born 17 July 1928, in Evandale, Tasmania, died 30 January 2012 in Launceston, Tasmania) was a cricket player, who played first-class cricket for Tasmania.

The Nut

The Nut, an old volcanic plug near Stanley, Tasmania, a town on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia

Timmy Mayer

However, Mayer was killed in practice for the final race of the series, at Longford, Tasmania, when he lost control at over 100 MPH and spun and hit a tree next to the course.

Tranmere, Tasmania

The suburb is in the local government area of City of Clarence, and lies in close proximity to Howrah.

Transport in Hobart

Hobart has a narrow gauge railway corridor which starts at the city centre and travels north towards Bridgewater.

Trevallyn Dam

Launceston's outer suburb of Blackstone Heights and part of the Trevallyn State Recreation Area form part of the shore of Lake Trevallyn.

University of Tasmania SC

University play their home games at Olinda Grove Football Ground, in Mount Nelson, Tasmania.

West Adelaide Bearcats

West Adelaide also made Grand Final appearances in 1980 where they lost 88-113 to the St Kilda Saints in Launceston, and in 1983 where they lost 73-75 to the Phil Smyth led Canberra Cannons in Melbourne.

William Baillieu

Following up on his involvement in the 1905 founding of Zinc Corporation Ltd. at the Broken Hill Ore Deposit in New South Wales, Baillieu worked with W.S. Robinson and Sir Colin Fraser to reorganise the Broken Hill Associated Smelters at Port Pirie and brought about the formation and development of the Electrolytic Zinc Company in Risdon, Tasmania.

Wim Delvoye

However after two years of discussion with David Walsh, Delvoye agreed to construct a custom Cloaca built specifically for the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania.

Wood chopping

The world's first woodchopping championship was held in 1891, at Bell's Parade, Latrobe, Tasmania.

Xavier Doherty

Xavier John Doherty (born 22 November 1982 in Scottsdale, Tasmania) is an Australian cricketer who plays Australian domestic cricket with the Tasmania and for Australia.

He started playing cricket in his home town for the George Town Cricket Club where he debut in the NTCA 1st grade at the age of 12.

Zulya Kamalova

In 1991, Zulya moved to Australia, settling in Hobart, Tasmania, after which she performed extensively both solo and with accompanists.


3UZ

In 1985 the Nilsen family sold 3UZ for $9.2 million to Launceston (Tasmania) media company ENT Ltd., associated with the controversial figure Edmund Rouse.

Australian Football Council

Australian Amateur Football Council, the governing body for the sport of amateur Australian rules football in the states of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania in Australia formed in 1927

Australian heritage law

Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state levels.

Beringia

Other land bridges around the world have emerged and disappeared in the same way; approximately 14,000 years ago, mainland Australia was linked to both New Guinea and Tasmania, the British Isles formed an extension of continental Europe via the dry beds of the English Channel and North Sea, and the dry basin of the South China Sea linked Sumatra, Java and Borneo to the Asian mainland.

Boundary Island

Boundary Islet straddles the border of the Australian states of Victoria and Tasmania

Cape Maria van Diemen

The cape was named by Abel Tasman after the wife of his patron, Anthony van Diemen, Governor General of Batavia (now Jakarta) in January 1643, on the same voyage of discovery during which he named Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

Chappie Dwyer

NSW then quickly dismissed Tasmania for 158, with four wickets each for Ronald Eaton and Frank Jordan, who took a further two and four wickets respectively as Tasmania were dismissed for 102 in the follow-on to hand NSW victory by an innings and 182 runs, the only victory Dwyer was to partake in.

Double-decker tram

Double-deck trams were once popular in some European cities, like Berlin and London, throughout the British Empire countries in the early half of the 20th century including Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania in Australia and in parts of Asia.

Dudley Seddon

He had to wait a year to make his next first-class appearance, which came against Tasmania in 1927/28.

Eastside Lutheran College

Eastside Lutheran College is a small private school in Warrane, an eastern suburb of Hobart, Tasmania.

Emu Bay Railway

(Junction with the North East Dundas Tramway to Montezuma and Williamsford on the southern slopes of Mount Read the first railway in the world to have a working Garratt steam engine - K-1.)

Excitebots: Trick Racing

For example, in Kilimanjaro, there are dinosaur fossils that come to life, Guatemala, the Moai statue heads can breathe fire at times, and in Tasmania, several rock monsters will alter tracks or attack players.

Geology of South Australia

The state of South Australia, which stretches along the coast of the continent and has boundaries with every other state in Australia, with the exception of the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania.

Goodwood Road

Goodwood Road, Tasmania, link road to the Bowen Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania

Howden, Tasmania

Nestled between the majorly-developing township of Kingston and the smaller Margate, it verges on bushland but is only a half-hour drive away from Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania.

Hunter Island Penguin

The Hunter Island Penguin (Tasidyptes hunteri) is an extinct penguin, subfossil remains of which were found in a Holocene Aboriginal midden at Stockyard Site on Hunter Island, in Bass Strait 5 km off the western end of the north coast of Tasmania, Australia.

Jay Weatherill

A conscience vote for a Greens-initiated gay marriage bill was announced by Weatherill in August 2012, following the announcement of Tasmania's planned changes.

Kevin Lincoln

In 1990, a survey exhibition of his paintings and drawings was mounted by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, which toured Tasmania and Victoria.

Kingborough Football Club

The Kingborough Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club, based at Kingston, Tasmania and currently playing in the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia.

Little Waterhouse Lake

Little Waterhouse Lake is a freshwater coastal lagoon in the Waterhouse Conservation Area of north-eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Madame Rens

The ship hit rocks and sank off the south-west coast of Bruny Island in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania at 10:00 pm on Friday, 17 July 1835.

Matthew Pascoe

Matthew David Pascoe (born 10 January 1977 in Camperdown, New South Wales, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer who has played for Tasmania and Queensland.

Meadow Argus

The Meadow Argus can be found mainly on the Australian mainland, as well as in Tasmania, Kangaroo Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Tuvalu, Samoa and Cook Islands.

New Town Cricket Club

New Town Cricket Club (NTCC), also known as "The Bucks", is a Grade level cricket club representing New Town in Tasmania's Grade Cricket Competition.

Nick Kruger

Nicholas James Kruger (born 14 August 1983, Paddington, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer who has played First-class cricket for Queensland and List A cricket for Tasmania.

Pixie Jenkins

Born 'Paul Blake Jenkins' in Launceston, Tasmania in 1957, now referred to by his stage name 'Pixie', in an article in The Australian, Pixie was referenced alongside Jimmy Little, Chad Morgan and Slim Dusty as "...an icon of Australia's country music industry".

Prototrichia metallica

Prototrichia metallica has been found in mountainous area of Tasmania, Europe, western North America and South America.

Qantas Flight 1737

In an interview with the Australian Federal Police, David Mark Robinson admitted attempting to hijack the plane which he intended to crash into the Walls of Jerusalem National Park in Tasmania – an action intended to release the Devil from his lair and bring about Armageddon.

Regatta Day

Royal Hobart Regatta, an annual three-day regatta in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

René Maugé de Cely

He was buried on the point named after him by Baudin; Point Maugé on Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast.

Shepherd's beaked whale

There have been five unconfirmed sightings (mostly from New Zealand), as well as a "probable" sighting near Shag Rocks and four confirmed sightings—the first two confirmed sightings occurred in 1985, within a few minutes of each other, off the Tristan da Cunha group (first sighting at 37°18'S, 12°32'W); the third in 2002 near Gough Island (40°19'S, 9°53'W); and the fourth in 2004 south of Tasmania (48°50'S, 150°06'E).

Southern Transport Investment Program

It outlines most prominently an extensive upgrade of the Midland Highway, including the Brighton Bypass, the Bagdad Bypass and the replacement of the Bridgewater Bridge.

Sturmer Pippin

One of the best English keeping apples Sturmer Pippin became widely grown and exported from Tasmania and New Zealand from the 1890s.

Tasmanian Devil: Munching Madness

Players take control of Taz to eat all the food in each of the nine levels - Tasmania, Australia, China, Greece, Switzerland, Amsterdam, Amazon River, Las Vegas and Transylvania.

Trafalgar Building, Hobart

Current corporate tennants are Tasmanian Ports Corporation Pty Ltd (level 13), The Department of Justice (level 14), and CGI (level 15).

Utegate

The following day, Senator Eric Abetz (Liberal, Tasmania) moved that an inquiry into the OzCar scheme be conducted by the Senate Economics Legislation Committee and that, "the Committee should hear evidence from relevant bodies and individuals, including the Department of Treasury, about the operation and management of the proposed OzCar scheme."

West Hallam

Sir Francis Newdegate GCMG KStJ (1862–1936), Lord of the Manor until 1914 was Governor of Tasmania (1917–1920) and of Western Australia (1920–1924).

White-naped Honeyeater

Birds from southwestern Australia have been shown to be a distinct species, the Swan River Honeyeater, and the eastern birds more closely related to the Black-headed Honeyeater of Tasmania.