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Adye Douglas, Premier of Tasmania, was elected Chair of the Board and Alexander Morton was reelected curator and secretary [5] with an annual salary of £200. [4] In 1889 a new wing was opened by R Hamilton to extend the museum. In 1890 Betsey Island, then Franklin Island, was granted to the Trustees of the Museum. [6]
Tasmania from space. Tasmania (/ t æ z ˈ m eɪ n i ə /; palawa kani: lutruwita [14]) is an island state of Australia. [15] It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait.
A Woolley photo, Rocking Stone on Mt. Wellington. Another wet-plate image, "The Old Theological Institute" was taken around the 1860s in Hobart Town, and can be found in the Archives Office of Tasmania. A woodcut made from his picture "Government House, Hobart Town" appeared in the Illustrated Melbourne Post in 1864. [2]
The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens are known to be supportive of the local community, including hosting an exhibition in February 2011 of photos created by students at OAK Community Services. [5] In early 2011 the Gardens played host to Power Plant, a sound and light show that came straight from a sell out season in Hong Kong.
The Hobart Zoo (also known as Beaumaris Zoo) was an old-fashioned zoological garden located on the Queen's Domain in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.The Zoo site is very close to the site of the Tasmanian Governor's House, and the Botanical Gardens.
[5]: 192 The best known are Kakadu, Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) and the Great Barrier Reef. The Tasmanian Wilderness is probably the best known of the rest. [6] Tasmania is approximately 296 km (184 mi) north to south and 315 km (196 mi) east to west, [7]: 6 and about 300 km (190 mi) south of mainland Australia. Around 30 per cent of ...
In 1920, Cato, still convalescing, returned to Tasmania, where he operated his own portrait-studio in Hobart, and there married Mary Boote Pearce (d.1970) on 24 December 1921. He was President of the Tasmanian Photographers' Association in 1923. [4] In 1926 their son John was born and in 1927 they moved to Melbourne. [5]
The Images is a 0.53 ha group of rocky islets and reefs, part of the Actaeon Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia at the southern entrance to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the mainland. It is a conservation area. [1]