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Orford is a seaside village located on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia, approximately 73 kilometres (45 mi) north-east of the state-capital of Hobart.Situated on Paredarerme pungenna country, [2] and nestled around the mouth of the Prosser River, the village sits on the southern edge of Prosser Bay, with the Mercury Passage stretching out beyond the bay’s waters.
Glamorgan–Spring Bay Council is a local government body in Tasmania, situated on the central east coast of the state. Glamorgan–Spring Bay is classified as a rural local government area and has a population of 4,528, [2] the major towns of the region include Bicheno, Orford and Swansea with Triabunna the principal town.
Tasman is home to three national parks: Abel Tasman National Park (New Zealand's smallest at 225.41 km 2), Nelson Lakes National Park (1,017.53 km 2) and Kahurangi National Park (4,520 km 2). The Maruia Falls, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) southwest of Murchison, were created by the 1929 Murchison earthquake when a slip blocked the original channel.
Triabunna is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Glamorgan–Spring Bay in the South-east LGA region of Tasmania.The locality is about 86 kilometres (53 mi) north-east of the city of Hobart.
Michael John Kent AM, AOTY (1 April 1942–6 December 2018 [1]) was an Australian businessman, sports administrator, diplomat and politician, from Hobart, Tasmania.Kent was the Tasmanian recipient of the Australian of the Year in 2004, and also received the Member of the Order of Australia award in 1998.
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Richmond (Māori: Waimea) is a town and the seat of the Tasman District Council in New Zealand. It lies 13 kilometres (8 mi) south of Nelson in the South Island, close to the southern extremity of Tasman Bay. The town, first settled by Europeans in 1842, [3] was named in 1854 after the town of Richmond on Thames near London. The town has an ...
James Henry Esmond Dorney (17 September 1906 – 25 December 1991) was an Australian architect, known for a series of notable Streamline Moderne apartment blocks in Melbourne in the 1930s, and a series of inventive Modernist houses in Tasmania in the 1950s and 60s, where he has been credited with bringing Modernism to the island state.