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Van Diemen's Land was released in Australian cinemas on 24 September 2009, and was rated MA15+ for "strong violence and coarse language". [9] It received mostly positive reviews, and earned an 80% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews with an average 6.6/10 rating. [10]
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Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration and colonisation of Australia in the 19th century. The island, inhabited by Aborigines, was first encountered by the Dutch ship captained by Abel Tasman in 1642, working under the sponsorship of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
Map of Van Diemen's Land, 1828. Allen took up his first grant of land at Milton, in Glamorgan, near Swansea. [2] In March 1828, in the context of mutual ongoing violence, when he had finished reaping and secured all his crops, and when all hands were away except one boy, some aboriginals came and burnt all the buildings, the stacks of wheat, and nearly everything Allen possessed; the loss ...
Dick Van Dyke has had his family by his side throughout his extraordinary career. The Mary Poppins star was born in 1925 to parents Hazel Victoria and Loren Wayne "Cookie" Van Dyke. Dick became a ...
In 1823, having transferred to the 81st Regiment of Foot and then the 40th Regiment of Foot, he went to Van Diemen's Land in 1824, where he became Governor George Arthur's private secretary. In 1826, he was made clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils , but was recalled to England to take up his military duties in 1829.
"My Three Sons" are now grown-up with children of their own. From 1960 to 1972, Fred MacMurray starred as the widowed dad to three boys: Mike, Robbie and Chip. (And, eventually, the adopted Ernie.)
Chart of Van Diemen's Land produced by Matthew Flinders; it is now called Tasmania. In 1798, Flinders, by then a lieutenant, was given command of the sloop Norfolk with orders "to sail beyond Furneaux's Islands, and, should a strait be found, pass through it, and return by the south end of Van Diemen's Land". Flinders and Bass had, in the ...