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The modern history of the Australian city of Hobart (formerly 'Hobart Town', or 'Hobarton') in Tasmania dates to its foundation as a British colony in 1804. Prior to British settlement, the area had been occupied definitively by the semi-nomadic Mouheneener tribe, a sub-group of the Nuenonne, or South-East tribe. [1]
1860s photograph of Hobart's Campbell Street Gaol and early Hobart. The original portion of the gaol, at first known as the Hobart Town Prisoner's Barracks, was built by convicts in 1821 [1] and accommodated 640 men. As thousands of convicts were arriving each year, the barracks was found to be too small almost immediately, and it was extended ...
Hobart (/ ˈ h oʊ b ɑːr t / ⓘ HOH-bart [6]) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. [7] Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmost capital city in Australia. Despite containing nearly half of Tasmania's population, Hobart is the least-populated ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Hobart CBD, North Hobart: Campbell Street is a street in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
St David's Park occupies the site of Hobart's original burial ground, which dates to the early 1800s when the island was known to Europeans as Van Diemen's Land.The cemetery was the resting place for many of its early settlers and convicts, including founding Lieutenant Governor David Collins, who played a key role in the British colonisation of Lutruwita. [3]
The history of Tasmania begins at the end of the Last Glacial Period (approximately 12,000 years ago) when it is believed that the island was joined to the Australian mainland. Little is known of the human history of the island until the British colonisation of Tasmania in the 19th century.
Queen's Battery in 1908, showing the excellent view of the entrances of the Derwent River. The Hobart coastal defences are a network of now defunct coastal batteries, some of which are inter-linked with tunnels, that were designed and built by British colonial authorities in the nineteenth century to protect the city of Hobart, Tasmania, from attack by enemy warships.
The Royal Society granted the Royal Botanical Gardens, Hobart to the state government at the same time, and they became known as the Tasmanian Museum and Botanical Gardens in that year. [5] 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 £ ...