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Continue reading →: Shocking Catastrophe! The Explosion of the Little NellOn a crisp and cloudless Wednesday, the 18th of February 1874, the steamer Little Nell embarked on her routine voyage from George Town to Launceston. Little did her passengers know that this day’s journey would be etched into history as a day of catastrophe.
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Continue reading →: Mole Hill Fantasy, TasmaniaMainland Australia has big stuff. The big banana; the big merino; the big prawn. You get the picture. Tasmania though, well, we have little stuff. Miniature villages from Tasmazia to models of early colonial towns such as Hobart and York Town.
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1806 – “Piractical capture of the colonial brig Venus” at Port Dalrymple – crew and convicts seized the vessel and sailed her
away. Charlotte Badger
1828 – A public notice to establish a
newspaper at Launceston “to be called The Launceston Advertiser”, inviting anyone “having a printing press and type” to get in touch. Trove
1922 – After heavy rain, Launceston illuminated the Cliff Grounds at Cataract Gorge so the public could view the flood torrent. The mayor, AW Monds, arranged extra lights along the path. Trove
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