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97 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.

Alfred Kennerley

Alfred Kennerley (1810 – 15 November 1897) was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 4 August 1873 until 20 July 1876.

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.

Anthony Hardy

In 1982 Hardy had been arrested in Tasmania, Australia, where he was working as an engineer, for trying to drown his wife, but the charges were later dropped.

Archibald Fisken

He married Elspeth Anne Cameron on 20 February 1924 at Ross, Tasmania.

Australian Maritime College Rugby Union Club

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

Australian non-residential architectural styles

Their distribution follows closely the establishment and growth of the different colonies of Australia, in that the earliest colonial buildings can be found in New South Wales and Tasmania.

Australian rules football in Tasmania

Between 1996 and 1998 a bid was prepared that involved the construction of a 30,000-capacity stadium in the Hobart showgrounds in Glenorchy, at the cost of $34 million.

Bellerive

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

Bellerive, Tasmania

Following the first settlers, the area expanded rapidly, with roads to the farming districts of Clarence Plains (Rokeby), Coal River (Richmond) and Hollow Tree (Cambridge) soon developing.

Ben Beams

Recruited from Glenorchy, Tasmania he made his AFL debut in Round 5 of the 1999 season against Port Adelaide, and played 11 games for 9 goals in his debut year.

Benjamin Duterrau

A large landscape is in the Beattie collection at Launceston, and he is also represented in the Dixson collection at Sydney.

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.

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.

Centrolepis ciliata

It is found in New Zealand (the North, South, Stewart, Auckland and Campbell Islands) and 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

Senior secondary colleges in the Glenorchy area include St Virgil's College, on the northern side of the city; Montrose Bay High School located at Rosetta; Cosgrove High School, Dominic College and Guilford Young College close to the city center; and Claremont College slightly to the north at Claremont.

Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust

The Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust was established in 1992 by the community of Northern Tasmania to be an independent, non-profit organisation interested in discovering and sharing better treatments of disease.

Clifton Beach, Tasmania

Clifton Beach is a town located approximately 25 km southeast of Hobart on the South Arm Peninsula on the outskirts of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Clive Jenkins

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

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.

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.

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.

Emile Dechaineux

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

Emma Howson

Howson, the niece of diva Emma Albertazzi (also born Emma Howson), was born in Hobart Town, Tasmania, and performed as a child in concerts with her father, Frank (a baritone and conductor) and her brothers.

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.

FitzGerald's Department Stores

FitzGerald's also had substantial stores in Launceston and Burnie (occupying the site of a former theatre), as well as stores in suburban Hobart (Eastlands and Moonah) and a small (600 square metre) store in New Norfolk (occupying a general store built in 1914).

Frederick Whirlpool

Later, after turning down a job offer to join the police, Whirlpool changed his name to Humphrey James and moved to Tasmania.

George Warren Russell

The family emigrated to Tasmania when he was still a child, and then moved again to New Zealand in 1864.

Girt dog of Ennerdale

These creatures, a native of Tasmania (Australasia), were also known to prefer the softer organs of its kills and also had a fondness for drinking blood.

Glenveagh

The network of mainly informal gardens displays a multitude of exotic and delicate plants from as far afield as Chile, Madeira and Tasmania, all sheltered by windbreaks of pine trees and ornamental rhododendrons.

Goodwood Road

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

Henry Dobson

Dobson's political career began on 12 August 1891, when he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly representing the electorate of Brighton.

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.

Henry James Emmett

Following the construction of 'Beauly Lodge' at New Town, he misappropriated fees collected by his office, a board of inquiry ordered repayment but exonerated him from deliberate dishonesty.

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 coastal defences

With the outbreak of World War II, the Department of Defence acquired land near South Arm close to the mouth of the Derwent River on the eastern shore, from a Mr. Courtland Calvert and his sister in September, 1939.

Hobart United

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

Hutton Court

The next owner was Edward Bisdee (1802–1870), a native of Oldmixon near Hutton who had made a fortune in 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.

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 Ryan O'Neill

Nine year old Bruce Colin Wilson was then abducted and his body was found in May 1975 near Risdon Vale.

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.

Jordan River Bridge

The bridge's main function is to carry East Derwent Highway traffic, as well as pedestrians who travel between Bridgewater and Gagebrook.

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.

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.

Kings Meadows High School

Kings Meadows High School is a secondary school located at Kings Meadows, Tasmania serving the Kings Meadows, Youngtown, and Northern Midlands area.

Lauderdale, Tasmania

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

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.

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.

Mary Gilbert

The schooner Enterprize, owned by John Pascoe Fawkner, had brought them and other settlers from Launceston, Tasmania, where she had married James at the age of eighteen.

Matthias Ungemach

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

Mcgees Bridge

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.

The State Government decided in the mid 19th century that if a crossing at Pitt Water could be made, it would considerably reduce the time to reach Sorell.

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.

Montrose Bay High School

Montrose Bay High School is a co-educational comprehensive state high school (Grades 7–10) with two campuses located in Rosetta and Claremont, suburbs of the city of Glenorchy, Tasmania, on the banks of the Derwent River.

Museum of Old and New Art

The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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 Rivulet

The New Town Rivulet flows from its headwaters though the Hobart suburbs of Lenah Valley and New Town to New Town Bay into the River Derwent.

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.

Philosophers Ridge

The Gap the point where the Queenstown to Gormanston road (originally known as the Queenstown to Gormanston Dray Road - now known as the Lyell Highway) passed over the ridge, is the southern most named feature that remains.

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.

Redline Coaches

In 2009 Redline acquired the business of Smith's City to Surf Coaches servicing the Dodges Ferry region.

Roland Warpole Loane

Loane had a land grant at Pittwater and after 1818 purchased several areas in the country, including one at Eastern Marshes in the Oatlands district, and a number of small areas in Hobart, on which he built houses which he let to government officers.

Rosina Palmer

Palmer was the daughter of Jerome Carandini, Marquis of Sarzano and Marie Carandini and was born in Hobart, 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.

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.

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.

Seiichi Sugano

Three of Sugano's students were promoted to 7th dan on his recommendation: Tony Smibert (Tasmania), Robert Botterill (Melbourne) and Hanan Janiv (Canberra).

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.

South Hobart FC

ground = South Hobart Soccer Ground, D'Arcy Street, South Hobart

Tasman Limited

Stopping only for passengers at Derwent Park Junction, several intermittent stops happened in between due to scheduling conflicts on Tasmania's single lines, such as at Parattah in the state's Midlands.

Tasman Outflow

The deepwater current passes at an average depth of 800–1,000 metres from the Pacific Ocean outside Tasmania's southern shores into the Southern Ocean that encircles Antarctica, the vast 'flywheel' that stabilizes global distribution of heat.

Tasmania Police

The Tasmania Police Academy is located in the suburb of Rokeby on Hobart's Eastern Shore.

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.

Tasmanian Transport Museum

In 1979, after the cessation of passenger train services in Tasmania, the Museum purchased and moved the former New Town railway station building to the site in sections, and this was completed in 1980.

The Museum also acquired a railway turntable from Brighton and a signal cabin from the Botanical Gardens railway halt.

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 Aldington Gang

Ransley was sent to work on a farm in Tasmania where his knowledge of farming was a great benefit to him.

The Nut

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

Thomas Austin

After farming near Ouse, Thomas and his brother James crossed Bass Strait in 1837 and settled as pioneer pastoralists in the Western District of the Port Phillip District (now called Victoria).

Transport in Hobart

Since the opening of the Museum of Old and New Art in January 2011, a regular daily ferry operates from Sullivan's Cove to the museum's location in the northern suburb of Berriedale.

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

University of Tasmania SC

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

Walter Gellibrand

Gellibrand was born in Derwent Park, Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania), brother of Thomas and William who both became members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.

Western Line, Tasmania

In March 1876, the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company had completed the construction of a 1,067 mm gauge line from Hobart to Evandale and entered into negotiation with the Government for the construction of a third rail over the broad gauge tracks of the Launceston and Western Railway between Evandale Junction and Launceston.

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.

Xavier Doherty

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.


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.

Bulbine crassa

Coast Lily (Bulbine crassa), also known as the Crassa Island Leek Lily (D.I.Morris & Duretto) is a species described in 2006 which occurs on the Furneaux Group of islands between 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).

Carlton Draught

Carlton Draught is a pale lager which is sold on tap in its home state of Victoria as well as in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, and is one of Australia's most popular selling tap beers.

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.

Cingulina spina

This species' distribution ranges from the northernmost existing specimens located within the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, to as far south as the South West Cape, Tasmania's southernmost point of land and off various coasts situated on the geographical exterior of the largest island in the world, Australia.

Driver Group

Driver Group today operates charters originating in Melbourne and operating to destinations around the country, Great Sights day tours in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide and Gray Line Australia day tours in Melbourne, Perth, Cairns, Adelaide, Darwin, Alice Springs and Tasmania.

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.

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.

Eric Abetz

Abetz studied at Taroona High School, Hobart Matriculation College and the University of Tasmania, earning degrees in law and arts in 1981.

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.

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.

Gametraders

As of May 2013, there are 17 Gametraders stores across Australia in all states except the Northern Territory, Tasmania, and Western Australia.

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.

John Buckland

John Richard Buckland (1819–1874), Australian school teacher and first headmaster of The Hutchins School, Tasmania

John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst

They had one daughter, Georgiana Susan Copley, who married Sir Charles Du Cane, Governor of Tasmania.

John Eardley-Wilmot

Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet (1783–1847), Governor of Tasmania, MP for Warwickshire North 1832–1843

Little Waterhouse Lake

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

Lottie Lyell

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

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.

Methodist Ladies' College

Scotch Oakburn College, Tasmania (Amalgamation of Methodist Ladies' College, Oakburn College and Scotch College)

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.

Regatta Day

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

Rosa Iceberg

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

Rosny College

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

Royce Hart

Aged 17, Hart crossed Bass Strait determined to develop his precocious talent, which was unusual; most Tasmania players played a number of seasons in the local competition before crossing to Victoria as mature age recruits.

Tesla - Lightning in His Hand

Creator and original Artistic Director of Tasmania's 10 Days on the Island Festival, Robyn Archer, commissioned the full opera to open the festival in 2003.

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-fronted Chat

It is endemic to Australia, being found across southern Australia (including Tasmania) from Shark Bay in Western Australia around to the Queensland/New South Wales border.

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.

William Piguenit

He was a participant in the venture to the western part of Tasmania - as found in the book Walk to the West.