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08/01/2024

An Ottomon Turk Map of Australia from 1803!

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11/07/2023

18/01/2023

We're back for 2023! Today's group featured guests from Germany, Ireland, Queensland and Western Australia.

We had an interesting discussion about contemporary challenges facing Hobart including the University's CBD move, cable car and our recent traffic woes.

One guest, a Historian from Melbourne, shared fascinating tales of Tasmanian influence in Victoria and Napoleon's fascination with Australia. Did you know Napoleon had a Kangaroo brought back from Australia and kept it in his private residence?

27/12/2022

ON THIS DAY – 27th December
1803 – Convict William Buckley escaped from Sullivan Bay. He lived with the Wautharong Aboriginal people for 32 years. The Australian saying "Buckley's chance" means to have a very slim chance, and was spawned by his amazing story of survival in the bush. He fed on shellfish and berries, and was befriended by the Aborigines of the Wautharong tribe, who believed the big, white stranger to be a reincarnation of their dead tribal chief. He learnt their language and their customs, and was a given a wife, by whom, he said, he had a daughter. He finally came to Van Diemen’s Land in 1835….
When he was found in 1835, he had lost the ability to speak in his mother tongue other than his name and was able to show the initials WB tattooed on his arm. When found Mr. Bateman's party to measure this Goliath, his height was six feet five inches and seven-eights; he measured, round the chest, three feet nine inches ; the calf of his legs, and the thick parts of his arms, are eighteen inches in circumference. his hair and beard spread out as large as a bushel measure - His convict record of the early 1800s say he stood at 6ft 6 inches and the average male at the time stood 5ft 3 inches.
He died 30 January 1856 and was buried in St. George’s burial ground, Albuera Street.
In 1922 it was suggested that the Royal Society should erect a suitable memorial stone to Buckley. "Such a stone," concluded the lecturer, "should not be erected in St. George's, because that place as a cemetery must disappear in the near future. But Buckley's remains might be removed to Cornelian Bay, and a simple but permanent headstone be erected to record the remarkable facts of his life.”
Sadly this suggestion never saw the light of day…
William Buckley (1780-1856), by unknown artist (after Ludwig Becker), c1852
La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria, H30879

10/02/2022

A rare chance to see the jaw dropping Nelson Battery. We highly recommend locals check it out!

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