History of Tasmania
... Hobart in 1876. European arrival Main article: Van Diemens Land The first reported sighting of Tasmania by ... Abel Tasman who named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, after his sponsor, the Governor of ... Indies. The name was later shortened to Van Diemens Land by the British. Captain ...
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Discovery Tasmaniens   (translated from German)
... Governor general of Netherlands east India Anton van Diemen, why it called the island also Van Diemens country. 1798 orbited captain Matthew Flinders the ... coast of the Australian Yorkhalbinsel Mapoom to land, became however of that Aborigines into the ... in the south still another further larger land mass to the earth hemisphere must ...
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Burnie, Tasmania
... for William Burnie - a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company - in the early 1840s. The city ... when George Bass and Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Van Diemen's Land in 1798. As they passed the current ... a volcano'. Bass and Flinders did not land on the coast, and it was ...
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John Helder Wedge
... Australian colonist noted for his surveying in Van Diemen’s Land in the 1820s and early 1830s and ... obtained an appointment as assistant surveyor in Van Diemen’s Land. In 1823 Wedge and his brother sailed in the Heroine for Van Diemen’s Land, with Edward Davy’s oldest ...
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Tasmania
... Const. monarchyWilliam CoxPaul Lennon (ALP) Area - Total - Land - Water 90,758 km� (7 th )68 ... Abel Tasman who named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, after his sponsor, the Governor of ... Indies. The name was later shortened to Van Diemens Land by the British. Captain James Cook ...
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Tasmânia   (translated from Portuguese)
... 1642 , that it called the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, in homage its sponsor, the Governor ... Dutch. The name later was shortened stops Van Diemens Land for the British. The Captain James Cook ... other criminal colonies had been established in Van Diemens Land, including arrests secondary, as ...
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Swan River Colony
... of regulations were worked out for distributing land to settlers on the basis of land grants. Negotiations for a privately run settlement ... had already acquired a large tract of land in New South Wales. The consortium withdrew ... it preference over independent settlers in selecting land, but one member, Thomas Peel, accepted the ... for the seizure and expropriation of their land, in violation of British common law ...
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Tasmanien   (translated from German)
... steilkueste. At all the majority of the land mass lies in contrast to the Australian ... the island is one of the few land masses in the range of the "thundering ... hemisphere and meet here without brakes from land masses (the next is Patagonien) on Tasmanien ... in Tasmanien. Marsupial mammals the dominant factors land organisms are, of those that Beutelwolf (or ... structure considerably coined/shaped. Successively the Australian land mass of the later became Afrika , ...
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List of state leaders in 1824
... Governor of New South Wales (1821-1825) Van Diemen's Land Lieutenant Governor - Colonel William Sorrel , Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1817-1824) Colonel George Arthur, Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemens's Land (1824-1836) Europe ...
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The Voyage of the Beagle
... spent most of this time exploring on land (three years and three months on land; 18 months at sea). The book, also ... primitive state.) At the island of "Buttons Land" on 14 January 1833 they set up ... been on an Atlantic beach when the land sank, burying them in sand which had ... in Australia, the Beagle then visited Hobart, Van Diemens Land, while there Darwin also ...
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