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The Heritage of Tasmania: Southern Region
Previous Post: Wynstow, Eaglemont .... Next Post: Sleat Bank, Hamilton] The Tasmanian National Trust Heritage list has been 'rescinded' by the State Government, so on these pages I have started to reconstruct it.
 * 1) Southern Region (p.9 - p.14)
 * 2) South-Eastern Region (p.15 onwards)
 * 3) Western Region
 * 4) North West Region
 * 5) North East Region

1. Southern Region of Tasmania

 * 1) Bothwell (earlier page)
 * 2) Brighton (earlier page)
 * 3) Bruny (earlier page)
 * 4) Clarence (earlier page)
 * 5) ** Esperance and Huon Valley **
 * Original 1976 National Trust of Tasmania listed Heritage Buildings (previous page, all 32 properties numbered T1-T32)toc
 * Heritage Listed by the National Trust 1983 (previous page, 10 properties numbered N1-N10)
 * Up to 67 areas are listed on the Australian Heritage Register in 2017
 * These 67 Australian Heritage Registered properties, + about 100 extra Local Heritage properties,
 * Incorporates all 165 properties listed by the Australian Heritage Places Inventory for the Huon valley, grouped by township below:
 * Cygnet (previous page)
 * Dover (previous page)
 * Franklin (previous page)
 * Geeveston: 11 of National Heritage + 5 of Local Heritage
 * Huonville: 2 of National Heritage + 16 of Local Heritage
 * Lower Longley to Lucaston and Glen Huon: 13 of Local Heritage
 * Lune River: 12 of National Heritage and 3 of Local Heritage. + 2 not now listed
 * Port Huon; 6 of Local Heritage
 * Ranelagh; 6 of Local Heritage
 * Southport: 7 of National Heritage + 4 of Local Heritage
 * Cockle Creek: 2 of Local Heritage, + 8 on THR only, + 2 no longer listed
 * another 12 heritage-listed Huon properties not in the above townships
 * Strathgordon National Heritage Areas: 13 of National Heritage

The Huon Trail
The ‘Huon Trail’ begins south of Hobart. It takes you through the Huon Valley, D’Entrecasteaux Channel & Bruny Island – a region of waterways & wilderness; art, craft & heritage; apple blossom and vineyards; farmers, foresters and fishermen. >
 * Follow the Huon Trail stopping at the sign posts along the way. Look for the sea eagle and the hand-carved celery top pine-framed signs at 24 locations in the region.
 * If you want to ride wild rivers, meander through peaceful countryside, climb tall mountains in untamed forests, wander deserted and pristine beaches, sail sheltered waterways, partake of fine food and wines, browse in quaint crafts antiques and art shops or just relax and enjoy the stunning scenery, the friendly locals are waiting to share it with you. Come and visit the Huon Trail.

No trip to Hobart and Southern Tasmania is complete without a drive along the Huon Trail. > > Take in the the fruit growing district of the Huon River valley, Port Huon, Bruny Island and the vast expanse of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.
 * The Huon Valley and the coasts of Port Huon and the D'Entrecasteaux Channel are places of natural beauty, perfect for a relaxing holiday, a short break or even a day trip from Hobart.
 * Rich in maritime and rural heritage and populated friendly creative people, the region is known as much for its gorgeous scenery as it huon pine, apple orchards and boutique wineries and gourmet specialities.
 * By big city standards, the roads are always quiet and there is something different around every corner.
 * The Huon Trail incorporates busy towns and sleepy villages,

serene boutique farms and World Heritage Wilderness areas, accessed by roads that wind through a world of extensive and beautiful valleys and waterways.


 * <span style="color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;">Location: **<span style="color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">South and south-west of Hobart, Tasmania, beside the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Huon Rover and Port Huon.
 * **<span style="color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top;">Length: **<span style="color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Short loop (Hobart - Gordon - Huonville - Hobart) - 132 km; full loop (including Cockle Creek) - 304 km.

Geeveston Area, Huon Valley
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: rgba(0,0,0,0.870588); font-family: arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">Geeveston <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Geeveston is a small Australian town in the south of Tasmania on the Huon River, 62 km south west of Hobart, making it Australia's most southerly administrative centre. [|Wikipedia] Geeveston is nestled in the lower reaches of the scenic Huon Valley. Apple orchards grow in the lush green valleys nearby and during autumn visitors can buy buckets of Pink Lady, Crofton, Red Delicious, Granny Smith and Fuji apples from roadside stalls.
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 * It has a strong apple growing and forestry heritage and today caters for travellers exploring the nearby forests, Hartz Mountains National Park, and Picton and Huon rivers.
 * Surrounded by rolling hills and the nearby mountains of the Hartz Mountains National Park, Geeveston has a range of shops, eateries and local attractions and a main street full of hand-carved timber sculptures of famous locals.

History of Geeveston
In 1849 William Geeves settled the site of Geeveston. The early years proved a struggle, dense bush a barrier to settlement Britain's entry into the European Common Market curtailed apple exports, and in 1991 the Whale Point [|wood-pulp pellet site] closed, but the opening of a branch of the Bendigo Bank, and a major [|tourist] attraction, the Tahune Airwalk (2001), brought new optimism.
 * The construction of the Speedwell [|timber] mill in 1871 and the Huon Timber Company Mill in 1902 provided Geeveston with an industrial base, the Timber Workers Union ensuring that workers were well organised.
 * Following a violent strike in 1921–22 the Company closed its Geeveston mill in 1925 and Geeveston suffered population loss, but the start of banking (1926) and arrival of electricity (1928) assisted slow but steady progress, based on apples and timber.
 * There's also a creative community of artists and makers who sell their wares on the main street and at a regular market.
 * Geeveston is a 1-hr drive (60 km) south of Hobart.
 * The main Hobart to Huonville road was not opened until 1855 and the road to Geeveston and Dover was built abound 1883. Prior to that time the main mode of transport was by sea.
 * Read more: On the Convict Trail: Geeveston

=Geeveston National Heritage= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #a33c23; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11 results found.

===G1. [|Arve Loop Road] Arve Loop Road, Geeveston, TAS, Australia=== The Arve Loop Road is part of a popular interpretive drive for visitors to the southern forests. It was built in the 1950s for logging access. Tourist use started soon after the construction of the road. Forestry Tasmania (Geeveston) estimate that 30,000 people now visit Arve Loop Road annually to witness the effects of logging and regeneration in a working forest. The Arve Road is the main road to get from Geeveston to Tahune AirWalk. It is sealed, but there are small patches of gravel where the road is being repaired, so drive cautiously.
 * This place has been identified and assessed in the context of the Tasmanian Comprehensive Regional Assessment/Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) process. The national estate values identified in this RFA region are described in the Tasmanian national estate report (PLUC 1997) and its accompanying maps.
 * Forestry Tasmania (Geeveston) estimate that 30,000 people now visit Arve Loop Road annually to witness the effects of logging and regeneration in a working forest.
 * <span style="display: inline !important;">It is recommended by Forestry Tasmania (who manages this area) that you are always mindful because the road is primarily used by forestry-related vehicles, and log trucks. Also depending on the time of day, traffic to and from Tahune can be quite busy.
 * Scattered along the Arve Road are many great nature walks and lookouts, and it is an excellent way to start or finish a trip to the Tahune AirWalk; or as a separate day exploring.
 * The Arve Road is great for short walks, and really gives you an insight into the history of the forest with minimal effort. Walks along this road range from a short stroll, to 40 minutes return.
 * The **Look-in Lookout** is probably the best place to start. Further along the track is the **Lookout** itself, which has a map of all the different walks/lookouts along the Arve Road, and also some stories about the history of the surrounding forest from those who have worked in them.
 * The next stop is **Keogh’s Creek**.
 * The **Big Tree Lookout**, and the word big really cannot describe the size of this tree.
 * The **West Creek Lookout**.
 * The **Zig Zag track.** The track has been named ‘the Zig Zag track’ because it does quite that; following an old packhorse trail, through forest which hasn’t been logged. This track is less developed than the others but is still worth the effort. Here the trees have some damage and many are rotting due to strong winds that occurred some years ago.
 * (<span style="background-image: url(">[|Indicative Place] )
 * Read more at Forestry Tasmania

===G2. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Cracroft Cave System] Geeveston, TAS, Australia=== About 3500ha, 30km west-south-west of Geeveston, comprising the area between the South Cracroft River and the Mount Bobs ridge, extending from the New River to Lake Burgess. Excellent prospects for deep and extensive caves in an area of Ordovician limestone.
 * Location**
 * Relatively inaccessible specific caves are: judds cavern, matchlight cavern.
 * Proposed by the wilderness society in 1984 as part of the proposed western Tasmania National Park.
 * Description**: Suitable as focal point for bush walkers on edge of wilderness area. One days walk from nearest road. Good camping site below Judds Cave. Encompasses the predominately rainforested western slopes of southern end of the South Picton Range and Mt Bobs.
 * [|Registered] on the Register of the National Estate

===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">G3. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Geeveston Community Church and Sunday School] Main Road, Geeveston, TAS, Australia === An 1885 church and an 1853 chapel which are of architectural and historic significance. Colonial Gothic. Large rectangular plan with gable roof, pitched 37 and a half degrees.
 * Timber framed and clad; roof clad with corrugated iron. Windows timber framed with Gothic arched heads.
 * The timber fretwork to barge boards and bell spire is ornate.
 * <span style="background-image: url(">[|Registered] on the Register of the National Estate

===G4. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Hartz Mountains National Park] Geeveston, TAS, Australia=== Hartz Mountains National Park is a window into the south-west wilderness, offering views of remote mountain ranges as far as the southern coast. As well as spectacular views of a landscape which has been shaped by glaciers during past ice ages, > The park was included in [|Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area] in 1989, in recognition of its spectacular natural and cultural values.
 * The park offers a variety of unique features. Waterfalls tumble off the dolerite range that runs through the centre of the park and small glacial lakes dot the plateau.
 * The park contains a wide variety of vegetation from wet eucalypt forest and rainforest through to alpine heath on the exposed mountain tops.
 * Enjoy short strolls out to the glacial lakes in the area, or try the more challenging walks up to the range top. Its highest point,
 * Hartz Peak (1254 m), provides panoramic views into the heart of the southwest.
 * <span style="background-image: url(">[|Registered] on the Register of the National Estate

===G5. [|Hartz Track, Kermandie Falls and Picnic Area] Kermandie River Road, Geeveston, TAS, Australia=== The Hartz Track is a historic route to Hartz Peak from Geeveston. The Hartz Track has been associated with several important phases in Tasmania's development. It was cut to stimulate and facilitate the mineral exploration of central and western Tasmania. The Hartz track is intact to an uncommon extent, in that a number of tracks with a similar history have been upgraded as roads or otherwise substantially altered over time. Hartz Track, Kermandie Kalls and Picnic Area is significant as a forest place of aesthetic value, important to a community for aesthetic characteristics held in high esteem or otherwise valued by the community (Criterion E.1). The Hartz Track is valued for its spectacular mountain peaks, glacial lakes, landforms and tall forests.
 * According to a Parks and Wildlife Service document, the track was constructed in 1896 by the Geeves family, who were well known in the region as explorers, track cutters and prospectors.
 * It then became an access route for the growing recreational use of the Hartz Mountains, at a period when recreational tourism was becoming an important component of Tasmania's economy. (Criterion A4).
 * The track appears to have retained its original alignment, width and formation, especially in the lower sections, and is hence a good example of foot tracks of period. (Criteria B2 & D2)
 * This place is important as a forest place of social value, being highly valued by a community for reasons of religious, spiritual, cultural, educational, or social associations. (Criterion G.1)
 * The Geeveston and Cygnet communities have had a long and continuous association with the Hartz Track, having used it for many years to access the mountains.
 * The Track is a highly valued symbol of the past for local people and the Kermandie Falls is valued as a meeting place by them.
 * <span style="background-image: url(">[|Indicative Place] on the Register of the Naional Estate

===G6. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Harveys Creek Spur Timber Complex], Geeveston, TAS, Australia=== The Harveys Creek Spur Timber Complex is important as an associated complex of elements of past timber getting systems, including the rare remains of timber workers' huts. The Harveys Creek Spur Huts are uncommon surviving and relatively good examples of timber workers huts associated with this major phase of timber harvesting. While such huts must have been common, very few have been identified and of those the Harveys Creek Spur Huts appear to be in better condition and display a higher level of integrity. (Criterion B.2)
 * The timber industry is a major Tasmanian industry and has been operating since the early nineteenth century.
 * The introduction of steam technology from the 1970s led to new technologies, including log haulers and the associated tramways and log haulers. This form of operation included housing or sheltering workers in remote locations. (Criterion A.4, D.2)
 * The area around the huts includes a log landing and tram line which form an associated complex of sites and provides the historic context for the huts. (Criteria A4, B2 and D2). The log hauler sub-complex is a good and intact example of a timber log hauler site, the most intact such site in the Southern Forests (Criteria A.4 and D.2).
 * [|Indicative Place] on the Register of the Naional Estate

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">G7. Mount Bobs, Bobs Knobs & McPartlans Bluff, Geeveston
Bobs Knobs is a ridge in Tasmania and is nearby to Mount Bobs, McPartlans Bluff and Forest Hills. Bobs Knobs is moorland nestled amongst mountains such as The Boomerang (1073m) and Mount Bobs (1106m) in south Tasmania. Bobs Knobs is about 80km southwest of Hobart. At about 873m above sea level, Bobs Knobs is one of the higher localities in Tasmania. It is also one of the southernmost localities in Australia. It offers magnificent views down the lagoon to Precipitous Bluff and across to the rugged skyline of the Arthur Range.
 * Wide open moorland and scrubby ridge walking, mostly Permian and Triassic sedimentary rocks.
 * Mostly open uplands with a little remnant dolerite tops mainly Triassic sandstones and Permian mudstones with some Ordovician limestones to the north in the valley heads.
 * Vegetation varies from moorlands of alpine type with pencil pines near tarns and a variety of high altitude scrub with rainforest in small patches low down. Most of the vegetation within this area is high open moorland.
 * Register of the National Estate Record #11929
 * NOT LISTED on the Tasmanian Heritage Register

===G8. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Peppers Spot Mill Number 5] Peppers Road, Geeveston, TAS, Australia=== The Peppers Spot Mill Number 5 site is a good and relatively intact example of a portable steam sawmill site associated with this major phase of timber harvesting.
 * While such mills have been numerous, the Peppers Spot Mill Number 5 site generally appears to be in better condition and display a higher level of integrity than most other surviving spot mill sites.
 * In particular, the place is the only spot mill in the Southern Forests which retains most of its components. (Criteria A4, B2 and D2)

===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">G9. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Picton River Area] Geeveston, TAS, Australia=== This area includes a river with forests along its banks. The river scenery is good. Huon pines grow along the banks and may be seen from the track. This is one of very few places where the public may see Huon Pines along a river.
 * Description**: This area includes a river with forests along its banks. There are Huon Pines of a variety of sizes along the banks. The river scenery is good.
 * Register of the National EstateRecord #11927.

Geeveston Local Heritage
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G10. Cambridge House 2 School Road, Geeveston
Timber getter Mr Geeves broke new ground in terms of machinery and ideas in Southern Tasmania. Cambridge House has been lovingly restored and exudes the warmth, charm and comfort of the twenty first century in its current guise as a bed & breakfast. Cambridge House is bordered by the Kermandie River where platypus can be seen playing in the river.
 * www.cambridgehouse.com.au/
 * The first steam driven timber mill, the Speedwell Mill, was built in 1874 and was owned and established by John Geeves. It was capable of cutting 40,000 feet of timber per week.
 * Around the same time, Geeves built “Cambridge House” across the road from his sawmill which provided the timber to build the house.
 * The building went on to become the social hub of the growing settlement.

It is a single storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms, timber decorative bargeboards, dormer windows and a verandah with cast iron brackets and timber balustrading.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
 * Read more: On the Convict Trail - Geeveston
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3535

G11. Congregational Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Geeveston

 * Statement of Significance**: The Congregation Cemetery is of cultural heritage significance because it has special meaning for the local community because it is the last resting place of many early settlers of Geeveston, and, in some cases their ancestors.
 * The Congregational Cemetery is of cultural heritage significance because it has the potential to yield historical information about Geeveston and its early settlers.
 * Description**: The cemetery is located on elevated and hilly land. Grave stones appear constructed of various materials including sandstone, and polished stone. Grave surrounds are a mixture of sandstone, cement and brick.
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #7965

G12. Council Chambers Building Church Street, Geeveston
This is a large two storey brick building of red brick walls with painted horizontal bands and keystones. It features a hipped CGI roof with projecting gables over breakfront elements. The entries to the building are set under rendered entablatures set out from the building. ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Warehouse; See more: On the Convict Trail: Geeveson
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #7154

G13. Hemmerton 40 Fourfoot Road, Geeveston
Historic "Hemmerton" "Hemerton" Homestead is positioned magically on 3.416 ha - (8.5acres) of lush green pastureland in one of the Huon Valleys finest townships. Hemmerton is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.
 * A leafy driveway, established trees and cottage gardens.
 * Built by Johann Hohne this historic homestead was constructed in the late 1800's and displays a host of period features including elegant verandahs, bay windows, lofty ceilings, four-panel doors, and romantic fireplaces.
 * Long sash windows combine with original timber flooring and baltic pine ceilings all embracing a sense of warmth and comfort throughout.
 * Description**: This is a weatherboard house with opposing gabled roofs, double hung attic windows and a return verandah. The front projecting gabled roof has a cant bay window with a small skillion roof over.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
 * Sale listing and photographs
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #7146

G14. Hillcrest Main Road, Geeveston
Hillcrest is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a double storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building. Originally built by the Geeves Family in the 1800s, the grand historical residence of Hillcrest is as old as the township itself.
 * Being a residence of prominence in Geeveston for many years, Hillcrest has served many purposes.
 * From humble beginnings as four-room cottage for the timber mill manager, the present day residence was built in the late 1800s as a guest house.
 * Hillcrest has since been used to host local community meetings, such as the inaugural Geeveston CWA, and the staging location for many rescue missions for walkers lost on Hartz Mountain.
 * Since the mid 1900s and continuing on today, Hillcrest is being used a private residence.
 * Sale information and listing, with photographs
 * Description**: It is a double storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof, double hung windows and a lower storey verandah. Windows are double hung.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3536

**G15. Honeywood, 68 O'Hallorans Road, Geeveston** "**Historic Riverfront on 2 Titles**" - Drive down the tree lined driveway into your private, historic riverfront homestead on 2 separate titles. Set amidst picturesque gardens on approx. 7 ha of fertile pastureland, exotic trees, daffodil and bluebell groves" "Over the years the building has been used as an old pub, flour mill, post office and school. 'Bushranger' Martin Cash (1808–1877) is believed to have spent time here also."
 * OHallorans Road** is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the development of the flour milling industry.
 * This building is of historic heritage significance because of its potential to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian mill building."
 * It is a 1 - 2 storey weatherboard building with gabled roof forms, //rubble stone base// and //double hung windows.//" ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * He was a famous Australian bushranger. He was one of the few people who escaped from the prison at Port Arthur, Tasmania. In 1870 he wrote a book (autobiography) about his life. Martin Cash - Wikipedia
 * Sale listing and photographs
 * Old Tasmanian Heritage Register #3537 (no longer listed in 2016)

=Huonville Area= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.870588); display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">Huonville Huonville is a town on the [|Huon River], in the south-east of [|Tasmania], [|Australia]. It is the seat of the [|Huon Valley Council] area and lies 38 km south of [|Hobart] on the [|Huon Highway]. At the [|2006 census], Huonville had a population of 1,806 and at the 2011 census had a population of 1,741. [|Wikipedia] The first Europeans to set eyes on the Huon River were the crew commanded by Admiral [|Bruni d'Entrecasteaux]. The river was named by him in honour of his second in command, Captain [|Huon de Kermadec]. The name is preserved today in many features: the town, the river, the district and so on. The first European settlers were William and Thomas Walton in 1840.
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Huonville was not originally intended as the site of a town. Nearby Ranelagh was laid out as the town of Victoria in colonial days. Huonville grew around the bridge crossing the Huon River and hotels at the bridge. It was officially declared a town in 1891.[|[3]] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Today the Huon Valley is best known as one of Tasmania's primary [|apple] growing areas. Once enormous in its extent, the significance of the industry has declined steadily since the 1950s and today cherries and fish farming are the rising commercial stars of the district.

**Huonville National Heritage**
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===H1. [|Egg Islands Geoheritage Area], Huon Hwy, Franklin, TAS, Australia=== Why "Egg Islands?" - They were an important food source for inhabitants, particularly for swan eggs. The Egg Islands consist of two estuarine islands covering a combined 443 ha.
 * Almost two-thirds of this area is publicly-owned land, known as the Egg Islands Conservation Area, which is managed by the Parks and Wildlife Service.
 * The Tasmanian Land Conservancy, a non-profit, non-government organisation, own and manage just over one-third of the islands in their Egg Islands Reserve, which is held in freehold title.
 * the remaining freehold title is of 25 ha.

The Egg Islands are a small group of low-lying [|estuarine] islands in the tidal lower reaches of the [|Huon River] of south-east [|Tasmania],[|Australia]. They face the town of [|Franklin] which lies on the western bank of the river. Most of the Egg Islands are in a natural or near-natural condition and incorporate significant nature conservation values. Important wetland and rushland vegetation communities occupy much of the southern part of the islands. In addition to this, the northern sections of the islands support rare and endangered Eucalyptus ovataforest and woodland, being the largest remnant in south-east Tasmania.
 * The islands have been identified as a 317 ha [|Important Bird Area] because they support a small population of the [|Australasian bittern], one of the last refuges for this [|endangered] species in the state.
 * [|Swift parrots] occasionally visit the islands which are also home to large numbers of the [|endemic] [|Tasmanian nativehens] and [|yellow wattlebirds].[|[1]]
 * The relatively intact vegetation communities of the islands comprise valuable habitat for a range of fauna, especially waterbirds. There is evidence that the Egg Islands provide habitat for seven threatened or significant bird species, one threatened fish, one threatened amphibian and two threatened invertebrates.

The Egg Islands are a relatively recent landform having been created by the accumulation of fine sediment in the lower reaches of the Huon River.
 * They are considered to be the most important and least disturbed of this class of estuarine depositional landform in Tasmania, and they are still growing with expansion of the mud flats in the south.
 * Even though they are now in a largely natural condition, the Egg Islands cannot be considered an untouched wilderness. Indeed, they have played an important part in the history and development of the Huon Valley.
 * While there is no known evidence of Aboriginal occupation, the islands would almost certainly have provided a food source, principally swan eggs, for the local indigenous people.
 * Since the early days of European settlement the islands were used for various forms of primary production and recreation including stock grazing, orchards, vegetable growing, timber harvesting, duck hunting and greyhound training.
 * Little evidence of this use remains on the islands today, with the most significant heritage feature being a canal across the south island, first built by convicts in 1838.
 * (<span style="background-image: url(">[|Indicative Place] ), Register of the National Estate

===H2. [|Sherwood Hill Conservation Area (part)], Huonville, TAS, Australia=== Sherwood Hill is important as key fauna habitat which is necessary to sustain fauna populations and processes. It contains core habitat areas that are critical to the continuing viability of the Tasmanian fauna as a whole (Criterion A.2).
 * Read more Tasmanian hiking blog page Sherwood Hill Conservation Area "Better scenery than I imagined"

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 * The natural and non-indigenous cultural values were assessed as part of a comprehensive regional assessment of national estate values.
 * This assessment was undertaken jointly by the Commonwealth and Tasmania as part of the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement process, using the best information available at the time.
 * (<span style="background-image: url(">[|Indicative Place] ), Register of the National Estate

Huonville Local Heritage
16 records found

H3. Ferry Inn 31 Cygnet Road, Huonville
The Ferry Inn is of historic heritage significance for its associations with Mr Heller who built the first Huon Bridge. The Ferry Inn is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian domestic building.

There are decorative timber bargeboards to the gable end, a verandah and 12 pane double hung windows to the older section.
 * Description**: It is a 1-2 storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms and sandstone base.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3557

===H4. Former Standard Case Manufacturing Company 137-139 Huon Highway, Huonville=== The Former Standard Case Manufacturing Company is of historic cultural heritage significance for its role in the Tasmanian apple industry. The apple industry has played a highly significant economic and social role in the history of the state, and was an important feature of the imagery and iconography of Tasmania. When fully developed, the industry enompassed a broad range of activities and associated enterprises, including the orchards, packing processes and final export. The Former Standard Case Manufacturing Company is of historic cultural heritage significance as the only known extant apple case making factory in Tasmania, and possibly Australia, retaining a relatively high degree of integrity. These characteristics are found in the external form, construction methods and the detailing, both externally and internally. As a class of place, the factory represents a process that is no longer practiced.
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3563

===H5. Four Winds RA 21 Dowlings Road, Huonville TAS, 7109=== CIRCA 1900 4 BEDROOM HOME A single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building. This lovely home retains most of its original charm and character, including polished floorboards, open fireplaces, high ceilings and quaint gardens. Boasting spectacular rural and valley views, this home captures the sunlight.
 * It is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof, double hung windows flanking a central door and two dormer windows. There is a detached verandah with timber balustrade..
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Sale Listing and Photographs
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3566

===H6. Grove House (Riversdale) Huon Highway, Grove === Founded by Silas Parsons in 1839 as the farm property Grove Estate, 4 miles from Huonville. In the I 840s apple trees were planted by Mr Parsons at Grove near Blackfish Creek. Riversdale is of historic heritage significance for its associations with the Parsons family, who were pioneers of the orchard industry in the Huon and prominent local citizens. Riversdale is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building. Description: Riversdale is a single storey weatherboard building displaying gabled roof forms with decorative timber bargeboards. There is a verandah and double hung windows.
 * Silas George Parsons (1843-1927)
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3548

===H7. House 108 104 Huon Highway, Huonville=== 108 104 Huon Highway is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building. Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof, double hung windows and a verandah with steel posts and cast iron brackets.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3564

===H8. House 145 155 Main Road, Huonville=== This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Federation Queen Anne building. These characteristics are found in the external form, construction methods and the detailing, both externally and internally.
 * Description**: It is a single storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms. There is a cant bay window, timber gable infill and a verandah with timber brackets as well as infill glazing at one end.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Queen Anne
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3562

H9. House 158 Huon Highway, Huonville
158 Huon Highway is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Federation domestic building.

Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms. There are pressed metal panels to the gable ends, decorative timber bargeboards and a bay window. There is a verandah with cast iron brackets.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation domestic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3561

H10. House 5 11 The Esplanade, Huonville
This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building.

Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms, a bay window, and timber decorative bargeboards and finials. There is a verandah with timber brackets.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3556

H11. 'Ewins' House, 2717 Huon Highway, Huonville
Heritage Listed in 1999. This building is of historic heritage significance because of its potential to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Federation domestic building. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">**The Land** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The original land grant was to Eliza Walton, famous as the girl who rowed people across the Huon at a point near Ironstone Creek, in the days when there was no bridge and the road stopped at Huonville. At some stage, though I was never able to discover when, she must have sold the land (again, we don’t know how MUCH land in all) to V.J. Skinner. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">**The house** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> The original house was built in the period between 1896 and 1900; we have not been able to establish the exact year though the Heritage Register lists it as 1900. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">** Builder ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> The desigher/builder of the Skinner house was J. Lomas, a skilled builder who was the inventor of the first apple grading machine, which he successfully marketed in the US and Europe, and an example of which is in the Huon Apple Museum situated on the highway leading into Huonville from Hobart. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Mr Lomas designed and built several of the more prestigious homes in the area, including that which is now <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The house was the first in this part of Southbridge. An early photograph shows it standing in splendid isolation on the hillside — no houses in sight and Scenic Hill still treed and completely devoid of houses. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">**Owners** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In the 1930s the Skinners sold the house to Rance Heron, another local of some standing who had orchards, including some on the land that now fronts onto the Huon Highway, and all of the land below the house down to Coolstore Road. During the 1930s the Herons had further modifications done. These were undertaken by a brother of Joe Kruse (can’t remember his name) but unlike his grandfather he was not a trained or highly-skilled builder, and the workmanship in his extensions is noticeably inferior. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
 * originally 'Skinner' House, shown in B&W (below) in top right corner behind Skinner's Apple drying sheds and dock
 * Description**: It is a single storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms, half-timbered detailing in the gable end, a bay window and enclosed verandah.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation domestic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3554
 * Below are extensive notes from Roderick Ewins. former owner, now a resident of White Ridge, towards Port Arthur. (2016)
 * It was built as his home by V.J. Skinner, a man of some standing who owned various enterprises in the Huon valley, including sawmills, orchards, and a large apple drying works that stood on the bank of the Huon below the house, roughly where Websters now stands.
 * V.J's son the late Jim Skinner was for many years Warden of the Huon Municipality, and there are other descendants still living in the Valley.
 * V.J. also built the house opposite the drive of this house, now called "Walton", for one of his sons, and the small house opposite Scenic Hill Road (2711 Huon Hwy) that adjoins the property. We have been told that was built for someone that worked for Skinner.
 * the Huon Manor restaurant in Short Street (opposite the pub next to the bridge),
 * the Heron homestead in Coolstore Road, and
 * the house designed for his daughter Mrs Joe Kruse, until recently owned by Kerry Rattray, in 155 Main Road Huonville.
 * Renovation and Extensions**
 * It was subsequently extended and modified in three identifiable stages.
 * Initially it was of a modest size, and had a twin-hipped roof, the frame of which is still inside the roof today — they merely extended the sides up to join in the present very high pitch. This was done during the 191?s, at which time the riverview rooms were added. This I was able to deduce from a complete break in the floor-bards, and also the fireplaces in those two rooms were located in what had been river-facing windows (the outlines of which were still visible in the original rooms).
 * The verandah was built at that time and extended around the north/northwest corner. It provided the main entry to the house. All access was still at that time from the river, access being gained up the hill to the sandstone/concrete steps on the west side of the house. One then walked around the verandah and into the front door which is still on the northern end. The road to Franklin had yet to be built, after which the main access to the house was reversed to the south end.
 * Several years after the death of Rance Heron and his wife, in 1972 the house was purchased from their two sons Bill and Don, by Roderick and Beverley Ewins . Rod was an artist and lecturer at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, and Bev Ewins was a librarian and senior administrator with the State Library of Tasmania.
 * Thus in its hundred plus life the house has had only three owners, each for over thirty years. It speaks to the fact that it is a beautiful home to live in, and generations of children have been fortunate to be raised in it.

H12. 'Heron' House, Coolstore Road, Huonville
This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building. There are cant bay windows with eave brackets, a bull-nosed verandah with cast iron detailing, as well as dormer and attic windows.
 * The desigher/builder of the Heron house was J. Lomas, a skilled builder (see above)
 * Description**: It is a single storey weatherboard building displaying steeply pitched gabled roof forms with timber decorative bargeboards and finials.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3555

H13. 'Menon' House, 3520 Huon Highway, Huonville
This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey Victorian domestic building.
 * The desigher/builder of the Menon house was J. Lomas, a skilled builder
 * Description**: This is a Victorian Georgian house with an addition of a projecting gable to one side. The projecting gable has a decorative timber fretted barge board and finial. To the side of the projecting gable is a verandah with a door and double hung multi pane windows. The primary roof is hipped and there is a skillion addition to the rear.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3558

H14. 'Munton' House, 3 Shield Street, Huonville
//Description//: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof and a verandah to three sides. There are double hung windows flanking a central door and a skillion roofed rear addition. There appears to be a shingle roof under the iron.


 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3567

H15. Huon Manor 1 Short Street, Huonville
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: Muli,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Set in a federation home built in 1918 on the banks of the Huon River, Huon Manor offers discerning diners meals to remember. Huon Manor is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Federation domestic building.
 * The desigher/builder of the Huon Manor was J. Lomas, a skilled builder
 * Licensed Cafe and Restaurant, Huonville, Phone: (03) 6264 1311
 * Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms, half-timbered detailing and brackets in the gable ends, finials and a bay window.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Queen Anne style
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3560

H16. Huon Municipal Chambers, 40 Huon Highway, Huonville
Statement of Significance: The Huon Municipal Chambers is of historic heritage significance for the important role the council has played in the development of local government administration in the region. Description: It is a double storey brick building with a hipped roof, brick quoins and pilasters and rendered plinth and spandrel panels. There are double hung windows with multi-pane top sashes and a fanlight above the panelled timber front doors.
 * The Huon Municipal Chambers is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a double storey brick Inter-War Georgian Revival local administration building.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Inter-War Georgian Revival
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3565

===H17, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T4, Inlet Farm Huonville (1849) 65 Wilmot RD Huonville Hobart, TAS 7109 === Inlet Farm is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey brick Old Colonial Georgian domestic building.
 * Description**: It is a single storey brick building with hipped and gabled roof forms and a bull-nosed verandah. The base is sandstone. There is a dormer window, timber gable-end panelling, and double hung windows. The carport is a later addition.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Old Colonial Georgian
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/W1-xJ6ZtAL2LkUvAQGk48U33gBsUqpaIFokvuR6LAYz4knF3rvouE2wwz0kuvvtuYWtQZhG1IdG8_oKHuh841mNVICZvafxyIOSFWDYCq8U1pOoSXWkFtfQ1BbLBAbJZY4zLwPWgE9PukQ8pV_78aqMuk0Z6y2WozLig3rbu7ZyF2U-EKviWupvoNa5j5nB3azb6xULhGt_YU3-TP4KXQ002rf7d72X-DWZvBY2wbKypHIOgxO-N00wKbdDwJo5jQhA3uP-RR94iapIZ1L8P4sQSsfYcpaKNy0IywpmAUnjb1tuaEEoZrbbZOQbXhp8k6K1sF5BDL-l9yWO5MY6zDB1emdByIrI3WxNG907PIQ8YsPhA4aJ3c9S1RoLzTk6e2vxydniliVl5ovrPgmIgllWYnW_FMFU5-shdSmNxYM6nw_Stp0J1jWc5bNW1LoMlcEX_wZniuKxN3WjjGSlGh5nZ88M1sls1KW5FQI27MrZDMJQfWhh1Y8O3E5hijELl3U8ChRV-N78KszJv2AymZcDJt-RYYKkr63Vx6P0N6bgP_jXX20HtzVS1DJob-9rMfpEizUzD02VFdg2XmXTGJXNfC2Gakc-qW7LDEVHIfSb2TwNfcQ=w405-h270-no width="429" height="285" caption=" Inlet Farm, on Walton's Inlet." link="@https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/th2oHiqd5A8Pz_tHastZFcbcyjuTtxbU0ip-CJMoJqjWi0p7SkXRl-taeuI10oe9b222J0XpkmDwkhmkL3goDtJYr6iRgF7x9pT4yyubEXuNy2JsF8L5RNTuBsQNQojlXxDczW8Nmb6HqXVWA_ZS8QEvQdEjl8vxKbd64TlfB0ahpud97V0cKaYKcrvgFijhUzKu90zeauc9s3mj9IUvXwc7MIvjWo3ul6fQhZITPez7ci88qq8OrjfdMEaf9iFyZZh5NGw3jK-e7FFSqd2wMj9x9AmIt0oKIMx6RlIG0eJ_9sx6ETmTqsR9fjhmORm13KPYnCz2BHCJXFL3hOgt8LU3k5J-_58hP0CvPKQ1Nyi8yPhnc6MynynVK73Hs63cQmt1SFO0HKKx1BLiYunxOhdYKegH9C1oQX7inzZs9OZZGmBJKXMZdIVOc2FHPAQ77JMmNJoRPsKLf5YsWDlHII5q3sOzj4dNGIx1f2s-mphgbiom6E2Vm4cVEeMn-vwFGVgsIB1Gf6xUoIiYtW-q4GSId2AwjIaLhChsCs36FkLGvOTMBOGk7Vz7ECHkxRWGZhCNgIcXmQVSsVFRKO9ZCiUPD8DO_gzd_yDfeEZbhgN1MqGDyQ=w900-h600-no"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/zoOIqyK9L-7tJpvOnbi7XQuTYIX4V7PJHLXbznp9C0vCQPcqDaZ8zpWgHOYz7B08KLzA8LxWOsEZMpD5BePhvbArc97RreSskN3gG8q3WzcO_nB2-i6t237JlBcCdNtFy92CoFY8UL1d116h36U24T_xZAuVC2X1lu1wuM5YU8aITFKDagWEbvShWEPG1YoCAwmEJBoEPP42l0lUw34ved_LaOiubv0S6WB_z5PKclf9esi9J5O1BWte1XmQajXxrISDoh0H0iKCUZ0cx-VguB7R8PZE0IJFkH4KOPvshICh9cRBSK3KL7NFj8_yfuHHIBi-JP3pPe1FMdbe-c0vUL863-SfEIqKqI9jQRzE3eyTfEhhN6F9EGhkmFdRkHgp-B8goP7drv2vD03D7VMG22BFLBfzCBXWQYvPl-v8RnNfZYXQKxBHwMhp-yuo1xUWI10CIERdZyG6cM7Xn4jojAxPju8V4D0hfII6LOXxI1jFFJOsyK5WPKzCiZC8iMorCd_aBniNcFRoy2ievtN4lA-I8-hPfrohoDoBWVPDfCUgIkkjysqlPayO7RTDihnDglIwhQ59EVChbhx3s4bbzkD57yhWejDTIlL6AosIt2fA-87jnQ=w360-h240-no width="424" height="286" caption=""Inlet Farm, " the original farmhouse. On the banks of the " Huon River " C1847." link="@https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/e4sDoqy_HxeMkFD-XPTJXSo9hO3JnGuW2LaRoxmj5aNuRjgZ0LRI7fUxOyqgKXzWNIUPaCX3-MU_f6eR-bwgmCOQEnEyye5-KGVTEMgOhR3X9btbgA8fPQ9YbRUlU9o1I7Y2_3EfhS3_C3Td10CkrAgUCFfWSIXR2ardZscTOEjobBpErgp7yuZFuN_MqHJIggMzKnnPXUUMZr6ufkWvNtf1hmsf2xAASOtyyrLSiSQicHyHgiSM-hCHSCEnLyEer48UX4wqN8WUlMIxw2buUnm_d8M7q1wGs-3BisjEFG7EL83OxNSar65Tl891X7DuDp88Pg-Iwlxlk86aemiXq8Q2iKYzAzwtIp1EXiHLJiF3xeFvdsfrAyapkAm4mFiMg6P3YDy9uzUkDtND1ahAj9_JEQ8j4tbusXgtkitbwj7_kYLYwKKiTmjP7ndTvkgTf7YG1wjZ4FL9-VA3r4uMOk2SwcSF657tqFlZQmPZGybnKDklWH5UnfEhun678Y8UwENvMddfPodNz1OSj3H6gKgMhyiRDQ3rFEQAkbsspS1o2mmldB_ZPpThfmhyxDwkRa3Jlb4pvufvYzM0uNFElvJo8l78euFGRqCW7hI97we8pppIFw=w900-h600-no"]] ||
 * [[image:http://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/11364414/width/200/height/200/flags/ZC]][[image:http://cdn.backyardchickens.com/b/be/200x200px-ZC-be75d4e9_IMG_5529.jpeg]] || [[image:http://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/11364437/width/200/height/200/flags/ZC]][[image:http://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/11442372/width/200/height/200/flags/ZC]] ||
 * Inlet Farm. 1847; Hop Kiln || Coronation cottage and Old hop sheds ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tasmanian Heritage Registered # 3568

H18. War Memorial, Heron Street, Huonville
The War Memorial is of historic heritage significance because of its association with the general community as a social and townscape landmark. The War Memorial is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a sandstone Victorian Gothic war memorial. Description: It is a carved sandstone spire with a Gothic arch base set on a circular stepped pedestal.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Gothic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3559

H19. House, 14 Shield Street, Huonville
also numbered as 26 Sale Street, Huonville, letter box '26' is by the side gate on Shield Street, Huonville.

= Lower Longley to Lucaston, Grove and Glen Huon = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.870588); font-family: arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">Glen Huon Local Heritage <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Glen Huon is a small township and surrounding area on the southern side of the Huon River in the south-east of Tasmania, Australia between Huonville and Judbury. At the 2006 census, Glen Huon had a population of 990. [|Wikipedia] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The adjacent suburbs of Grove are Collinsvale, Crab Tree, [|Mountain River], Lachlan, Longley, [|Lower Longley] and Lucaston.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660099; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[[image:https://www.google.com.au/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,yoHhgtgKrc9vfeY1ebN6l1pLkc9GyLSq3OQjQrh7dUB3dbrxFEyoy7-oZ3Dflp9B5eCwo-zcPRLRK6jsfD-7Arav8_iMdxEecTQ_BrVNh2q1-DuKZopQcyNmbQAWJoORdqdQtNjJI8AjADhty9fhfYWFOt9D7OT3uCPxC-wsUt5yqco8OOeudfWY7hvMp4h2ktBeTC9Qn-pEEv9BWY2qk4zcCfaQ5vUR5m9aFK4Ki71JjJpOx9-y4O8hZtcMBXAIetcAnJlhAmk-Rh2PI3SacYHN64QYmA width="387" height="146" caption="Map of Lower Longley" link="https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Lower+Longley+TAS+7109/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0xaa6e784f2b734797:0x403c94dd0de0990?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDtO3jqcLPAhVCmJQKHaDTBwUQ8gEIazAK"]] || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660099; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[[image:https://www.google.com.au/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,4pyoEWshgO9VxkOMobUfLtVKpSmNfjTF2bfgB7P7zVxUqXqb5IA6UnssE_g4LqyddyJRWBWsPKxqTGGi_5EH7uEyBa0lJnEriSZ-iLrCGqEnc8OllZWcgg04BnTKEh8PkwGheUImA1NjyQrZ0S246Mu-IfQSRc4xqdzDdhiTMIvh95UPgV7QmabI1tjAbjg0K2dIzLc5EzG9jAWS-4Xf2aPdxZyZP64qeCS6iQc1SnZpT94x7JHhypr4DIYhMcAtTFT4x4HkabjGgajTE0VOOX0F5bXqPg width="393" height="148" caption="Map of Glen Huon Australia" link="https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Glen+Huon+TAS+7109/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0xaa6e827eed37bdfd:0x403c94dd0de0860?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhhsbPqcLPAhXCNJQKHQG5BAIQ8gEIazAK"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/KVnaRhZYjMmkLf7gAvpRHmaKMcgr2K_TRwL2IDgFRPBkSpZKoLDzjWP_o6EEbxYo-F7xD-5e8yKVR1UyzlTLxGhMvLo2vNPJYie-w7SO_aWE0ul4FnOlIlYaJ6CxAn8wlXpeo0TLGzXjYh2EbT09SXfOc9srnH1_M8iwsi6yipzUyfuMi3obzNpfgTZDD-R--oft4r8UBTNoH0fOumMi0mI_r7RxO5tD-6VPQa3duJwp_h7AlayQK8aPmYYIiEMwypOEE_J1Uviutgq7m2jAqUyjReVvFeCjnJFOSf_IsZ4oV8q1OILjtGYmKtoM9J1RsjXW2EbEmQ8nLbbD41twNMTqVza-HR4DWmMZcS3VzVBB3fCiT8GQTbVLGxfcKytkyA5Kbv82pyYVwmtd5h8f7ZIcTi0KSBZpoMdbh-rkbV2POXYxpUU7y-FLiz6aabYf0vEszukxAuF40XhC8QGDNo7IldRDYTISbw5VfRvUcHQnQ0gpG8uyywZZ3NAoIjp4TI94FsxpCUaNCy_KyzJ99G_FpEzX8s18riyA7oKc_Ga4uxVlExznB29cm_qCqSggMsZq47WXqV_Z2638Fw4zUVktQaH6YQptMTlGtGFy0gmabhfChQ=w259-h194-no width="312" height="239" align="center" caption="Glen Huon Photographs"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Hu8psjOSA1n29NJgryQ0kaxwrOTiiEJfXQBnm0BmmiiBPaIB33ZKU9MxKA588Y9Zxa7mfeMu1bIzA6HVzV3sD7DyWthpL2xYLLjh_OsmwPAI2-ryiHghPDc3NU1Zd38DRXY8YtmPlhFkfWVXPgB9eWhyWv19EeYPslX8YECINLhVRhw4dosHl1fRmrEa-2Ags1Mi_tomiT-slLbDA0NVkJNj9K_SxtwZd-NB3O1w0JCgZPrRlF4cxMbIX7kW8P1ivQRP_kTRG7umnkjwr4X5CH4srrgUqPUSHZT_eAwwsaoA2UgOdXKzTnt1R-P5lA1mYYNKddXRUmUksfSPEgBtR9Im8iUe_ys5zCxWCuAhwD4YX4cagDnYSkz_aKg2fHRQbCuAq14-cFyTJXkru7tOt0b36lcCYIcIMcWLmX0kkpBVvkGVaRME_KDhL_KElbRE2wzw-bXjVmTH3kx2tGkk0aJFENhKo3qNirLyOrO-iUMDxOOoRKwMUKtcgzvLjuOjmBnzN8FhWVZjYXb7jfqhvhWG9lNxdmAPDqc6ACO7LAgizJFruEI99U88nadoqtktNVFlPZX59QhhIjCBC4DcOwQQlnOCzwzwHV7OKO-EISY83Zlmzw=w800-h450-no width="406" height="230" caption="Glen Huon Road, Glen Huon"]] ||
 * **Grove** is a suburb in the [|Huon Valley Council] local government area in [|Tasmania], [|Australia] . [|[1]] The suburb has a postcode of 7109. [|[2]]
 * Lower Longley is a rural locality situated on the borders of the Kingborough and Huon Valley local government areas, which straddles the Huon Highway and is made up primarily of acreage properties.

===L1. House RA 1465 Huon Highway, Lower Longley === This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian 3572 Rustic Gothic domestic building.

===L2. House 1536 Huon Highway, Lower Longley=== This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.
 * Description**: This is a weatherboard house featuring a pair of gable roofs running transversely, with a small projecting gable to the front. All the gable ends have decorative timber barge boards. The building features double hung windows. There are also some outbuildings associated with this site.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic.
 * Description**: This is a weatherboard building with steeply pitched gabled roofs featuring decorative timber barge boards. There is a primary gabled roof and one of the same proportions projecting to the front. The front verandah has been filled in. The windows are multi paned.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3573

L3. Valley Farm, 54 Lucaston Road, Lucaston
This building is of historic heritage significance because its townscape associations are regarded as important to the communitys sense of place. Valley Farm is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a two storey stone Victorian Georgian domestic building.
 * Description**: This is a two storey stone rubble building with a hipped roof and narrow boxed eaves. The building features two pairs of chimneys on both side walls and a single storey verandah on the front facade. There is an outbuilding associated with this site.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3575

L4. House, RA 98 Watsons Road, Glen Huon
The house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.
 * Description**: This is a weatherboard cottage with a central door, flanking double hung windows and hipped roof with narrow boxed eaves.
 * The verandah on the street facade has hipped ends and single posts.
 * The roof features two dormer windows with gabled roofs and small finials. There is a weatherboard skillion addition to the rear.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3545

L5. House, 840 Glen Huon Road, Glen Huon
This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.
 * Description**: This is a weatherboard cottage with a central door, flanking double hung windows and hipped roof with narrow boxed eaves. The verandah on the street facade has hipped ends and single posts. There are two dormer windows with gabled roofs and decorative barge boards.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3541

L6. Uniting Church & Cemetery, RA 794 Glen Huon Road, Glen Huon
This church is of historic heritage significance because of its association with the general community as a religious and townscape landmark. Glen Huon Uniting Church is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Federation Arts and Crafts ecclesiastical building.
 * Description**: This is a timber church with a gabled roof, a separate gabled roofed vestry and a timber tower with the entry vestibule under. The walls are weatherboard and the roof is corrugated iron. A cemetery is attached.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Arts and Crafts
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3543

L7. Crabtree House 130 Crabtree Road, Grove
"Wonderful and enchanting describe Crabtree House. On arrival, one is greeted first by the immaculate gardens then by the wonderful hosts, Garry and Anna." It is a single storey weatherboard building with a gabled roof structure, a front verandah and central gabled portico. There is a bay window and decorative timber bargeboards at the gable ends. media type="custom" key="28699586"
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
 * Gallery of images
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3547
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3571

L8. House 2090 Huon Highway, Grove
This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Federation Queen Anne domestic building.
 * Description**: This is a weatherboard building with a projecting gabled roof with a bracketed weatherboard skirt and a featuring a bay window. There is a verandah to one side and a front door and side lights with a flanking double hung window. There is also a smaller projecting gable on the side at which the return verandah terminates.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Queen Anne
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3571

L9. Wincanton, 35 Mountain River Road, Grove
Wincanton is of historic heritage significance for its associations with the Parsons family, who were pioneers of the orchard industry in the Huon and prominent local citizens.
 * Sold $650,000 in Jun 2013
 * Last Sold $520,000 in Sep 2006
 * Wincanton is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Federation Bungalow domestic building and associated garden.
 * Description**: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a low pitched hipped roof which extends to the full extent of the verandah on three sides. There are triple paned windows cantilevered from the wall forming a semi-bay with bow brackets under. There is also a fountain, stone walls and a mature garden.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Bungalow
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3546

===L10. Hope Valley Farm RA 19 Sawyers Creek Road, Mountain River TAS=== Hope Valley Farm is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Federation domestic building.
 * **Description**: It is a single storey weatherboard building with sandstone base and displaying a gabled roofed front protruding section with a pressed metal gabled infill and cant bay window. There is a verandah to three sides with cast iron brackets and frieze and turned timber balustrades.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation domestic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3552

L11. 'Greendale' 83 Mountain River Road, Mountain River
This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Federation Bungalow domestic building. 'Greendale' is a single storey weatherboard building on a sandstone base.
 * There are hipped and gabled roof forms and a gabled timber portico with decorative timber detailing, gable infill and finial.
 * Sale details and photographs
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Bungalow
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3550

L12. Mayfield, 240 Mountain River Road, Mountain River Huon Valley
Statement of Significance: 240 Mountain River Road is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.
 * Description**: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof and bull-nosed verandah to three sides. There are double hung windows flanking a central door. There is timber detailing on the verandah.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3551

L13. House RA 356 Crabtree Road, Crabtree
This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building. > Sale listing and photographs
 * Description**: This is a single storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms, sandstone base and pressed metal gable ends. There is a bull-nosed verandah with cast iron detailing.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sold $400,000 **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> in Nov 2010
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3549

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<span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.870588); display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">Huon Island <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Huon Island is an island with an area of 47 hectares in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the Partridge Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the mainland. [|Wikipedia] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QasoB69EFNxFCZ2092g-Y56doxw2W7X6UbnUleWUscyGuRFiwfwtY2RPBBy4cyQ5uAkArH542VOtfziN1pjRLCeRnlDSBNjXERySbwd6_wLHxUvqfmcaOklIMXTPsE9r8I03EfubDmvyA2U5IF7Ebm_o6u3ulswJwo355vY8K0Za666qVJk8nF5zE1RYk75Gmdob8-2ceFKzC3XelOY-dqK0vxbG4gih4fYyGv2U8MGBjOMIkbeGVzpggZPUSgQ64k5GGTcpapPmoTAfpb6rbesWjcifC0AMhbbn-XlpUYphUh4K3KB6ekqoeFBjyXLiyiYBiu19hMQ9bwBqyKz3nZouh8Wakupyf3Ozyc8vZmDAKw19UfoY-cbRXiCSZr4j29FxvFkykwbuispd0JqiQwboo5O4R8MLOLZgEiBIM1oChqGEEPqsicPTsaj_Vc-C5aSemuzAPcDvN0ufsQypc2PPIE19vtPQOZZoHQveqMJ-ShfwDyHwJkPRp7nC3ZnO0N1n9gWHiDp49mFuQmcAO2ycinhqZZLnf5FQo2-3oTzeaDZd3wDSiwBBeg7ja243Cb57rMTH62Gatd66e-X9d9SXcXuvEl2BTUHAT1cy8Q3Sh-xb7A=w750-h421-no width="339" height="195" caption="Huon Island"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/C6Be1tfqAOCzYa3ZbBKuh5cat1LEtt7vuSKfL4zQf7KM6mTQDcjhy3295Hk5sRUK_32Vi4sNuI_A6DK6Sg0gyf2tLxjgkA=w408-h306 width="247" height="190" caption="Aerial view of Huon Island"]] ||

H18. Huon Island Probation Out-Station (4 parcels) Huon Island, Huon River
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Huon Island is an island with an area of 47 [|hectares] in south-eastern [|Australia]. It is part of the Partridge Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of [|Tasmania], in the[|D'Entrecasteaux Channel] between [|Bruny Island] and the mainland. The island has a small human population and has been subjected to intensive agricultural activities in the past.

In 1792/93, Bruny d'Entrecasteaux sighted and named **Huon Island** after his second in command; Huon de Kermandec: an island cluster within the D'Entrecasteaux barrier reef in the New Caledonian archipelago, comprising four islets; Huon, Leleizour, Fabre, and Surprise, each about 0.5 mile (1 km) in diameter was named at around this time. In 1802, Captain Nicolas Baudin described Huon Island; a small island at the entrance to the port (Port Cygnet) in these terms: Another, as yet unsourced French explorer described Huon Island as: “.... an isle of tall trees” In 1803, Lieutenant Governor Collins, en route from Hobart to Cygnet in the company of the Reverend Knopwood, noted;
 * Those islets have no permanent human residents but also have a significant bird life.
 * “All its surface was overgrown with vegetation, trees and shrubs, which gave the appearance of a beautiful grove”
 * “I see a beautiful island...in the mouth of the river, an island thickly wooded”

Australia experienced the full evolution of the British penal process and thus reflects all the themes underlying the world's story of convict transportation. The **probation system** was a theme within this process, but a story unique to Tasmania. The Huon Island probation out-station is of historic cultural heritage significance because of its association with the life and work of people and groups of people that were important in Tasmania's history, specifically, Tasmanias Governors of State, Sir Eardley-Wilmot and Captain William Denison.
 * Huon Island offers a tangible reminder to the probation period, and in turn demonstrates a role in the human occupation and evolution of the State, such as early settlement patterns and aspects of the regions social, economic and political history.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ufSkgXXJNbI6BFfhGdiCoFHc75IRp_vjtncEdJvNXxEZdEOQINTBl8SPu2MAiWtgya7UH2xKzIRoqXHunyX8jFe7Lt8B4Aj2HKZFqE0vWk5qH8NqheaR9YDXe2ZpA-CJIdr6ig-KqHKon_-64ofyuEUghH6XXtruSMmmJ25jecl-yzZVUzHW62znFR1S_X2QNn9J_1_onFHdzpdhL_K0-i8XelGeBPVwc_3PI59_pqgiF2_nGkZAFnvpwSgKf-tacz665XpT1E5yJDHg5WMpfHuOiPkIeFpz0Blhi2OQbzD8WRUUqy8BD_sGlWqP2TpNp7BmTMLwe0VHs5gzQBhxKjfrHsHLn_eLQrMTsWXRuKS6tXQGR5TIkC0aS9xZh8NOtIYcZmYK7ag18HnC9jUWLpSUrZXkCWty7wAcKTAkAg8vukzcGx97jFDEZFGCsme900KNWczdIRRVQZ1g6dZFRRVWD9iX3Xr3t89DCHhLSRvi3yH5uftX5uBlgc5wX2kmhY4fVkK3KdFRlGKZ6K0ZyRs00f_v-ZsjdYqrgkGrhiMDlvpen--QS2pxaJOW7DvX_916aR_PYglpOfns3D8Tv5Zb4EW0y6P4FS8uoPSFp8ZJkndCAw=w800-h600-no width="458" height="345" align="left" caption="The remains of the Huon Island convict probation out-station"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Jo9kOmRlSg0iZnoK6sP-hglMOqsVtx-yK2A0RlNxST6oNw-jFSLnSTDWiPOXtydh_WfF2cJh_f6LkJFj3ZGj9bxqxHeJjGKqmuktyUXhIssQ5VOWNM57BwEb4jGG6pJo4FVCjvV2uXahN-wm94XPjziMF5RphNpmD-T4dVQknn1qWlMLRLBE1DxgZoPhtV6kIShnDqdKiwiUvFuXMISzxJN2rxH-Wtpw6BqmmH-leS8nb4LumgFJqDfM57ZsDenuVb9QLOXGx3ltx0ynyCpCYdi23gpXJL4NGYtfVXFNV00uNag_zJKNEy_l5JhDorEDKL3yPRi8Nx-x9l1beZw7ue94JPsOLofkGaq0I3HWleqpRpuFhWS1VQ2uIxDtJtmH3ElLjXXuMkcOfvf28ApoJu4ITUPr7Mu0oMCSsXj6y3FvJnQDg72J07afqaHrnUCRJFbeGd3EgZC8kDVpI5Xt2lsCL7b1S9zZ6vw1-qzxOsei8ptdt-r9iFJT1e61AmkCmg_HOkWGsy__B7jzzxczqaKs6PrXV-6mhE9uWbsVwk2qsfct_fTJz_Pnh1T8iKjekIWhkob5y4w6H3iGJdwCL1q8emGK9WLOpiX_aPzUOpZDesujvg=w800-h600-no width="458" height="347" caption="Convict Probation Station Remains on Huon Island"]] ||
 * The failure of probation was largely responsible for the downfall of Lt-Governor Eardley-Wilmot, and it turned the majority of colonists into implacable opponents of transportation itself.
 * More than eighty probation stations operated in various locations, for varying periods, throughout the settled districts. Often hastily and poorly built, few remain, and most of those in ruins.
 * Remains of the Huon Island probation out-station are of historic heritage significance because they have the potential to yield valuable information of an archaeological nature that may contribute to a greater understanding of Tasmanias convict past.
 * Description**: The remains of the Huon Island out-station are reported as consisting of a dwelling, cell foundations, well and fences (Huon Valley News 23 November 1996, p 15).
 * While this particular property has no built remains from the convict period it was part of the convict landscape and thus has the potential for subsurface features.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ek8CBW-2XlI7-DDntnZ6MjxSHK-bdoQFlkmDA3wbm1AArdyuGX71nDlwB6Ey3Dt2dvBuRcce3chL2WP5jtOH0o29IszInpxCJKzT1YO4jN-Qkp08dxeGZSYE-o_hO3bYwBW07paMeqQYki7RA9MAnxBfUyQ73vZNRnmj6oy7GeDOrDVEIRYf0FwLUlXHJR6FlSG2DvL3q5BZSb6vvhhu0TYBZcpOp2dsf_f6_LoEbYRJi1E8FC4MO0npt3FXdGpdlaRSQ8qRjLxZILMwW-aM2BYi0VYRNn9t2VP5JvlXnpN2RK3oV2hI61Dwgixgr-rRlk3dEMXdPJQu2SE3A6WLNSJ64eVhMtvS-ht2XFO_h8c5nvzcQtooTk7NjxcGcf-7cNeuLE_hJRUkvz5PfRSqLe3TzeC2ajF1XIScRnMveM1sIi9tLAXh1Aab_du-2Th6OdACMWp8hRgHUIx0Lt44sOosvMXfHchG_eIB8WGwxbz-a0rA-uCTVD1B8abCYZgOepH5FBSAQMq6h2CCBdkSp74VCLt5tEXfAtOaGSB-CxiKHetqldm9Yt1oONpBVgPD9tfWXEpwd8eSAWYZd4jmyV7T3rIC3Eq4blq2aIYpwjWTKqNL2w=w800-h600-no width="470" height="354" caption="The remains of the Huon Island out-station"]] || [[image:http://static.domain.com.au/domainblog/uploads/2016/04/16141500/2_go6lli.jpg width="627" height="355" caption="Only three families currently live on Huon Island and the sale will be the first to buyers outside of their friends and family."]] ||

"Slice of Huon Island up for sale
the latest Tasmanian island on the market" (2016)
 * Only three families have tightly held properties on Huon island for years and the sale would be the first to buyers outside of their family and friends. “It’s a lovely community that you’d be buying into, they are all there to help,” Mr Purson said.
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #10238

 **Lune River Area** The most popular fossicking area in southern Tasmania is Lune River, which produces mostly lapidary material. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Fossicking in the area yields petrified fern (commonly, but incorrectly, described as manfern), agate, petrified wood and jasper. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.870588); display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">Lune River, Tasmania Lune River is a town in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia located near the mouth of a river of the same name. [|Wikipedia] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
 * River materials include agate, carnelian, onyx and sardonyx, jasper, petrified wood and petrified fern. Occasionally agate geodes have vughs with clear quartz crystals inside, rarely citrine or amethyst.
 * The materials are concentrated in an underground gravel layer of variable depth. In some places around Lune River you can see the material strewn on the surface, especially after logging. In other places the gravel layer is meters below the ground.
 * The petrified fern is highly prized in lapidary circles and this is one of the few sources of the material known within Tasmania.
 * The material is derived from the weathering of some Jurassic basalt and sedimentary rocks and is geologically unique in Tasmania, and therefore of geological significance.
 * see Boris and Chrystine’s fantastic collection of Tasmanian minerals at Lunaris Gemstones, 175 Lune River Road.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hfCdxkO4kzJdob90pi8MU__UBRcSYD8soF34AmQS5gufkc7dOjc_W_JksI2IeCz1tfx1ZBU4ON9zbT0VG-CMK1tykiEqU4KVBuK7sBeu02qP7QFGJpyVWHekEsZEzu3wELoTyyfLCJ3_LtSUg8m368w5_7yU7qswLF0dDtg5YtDvoQ6q7CsvlZ-sIgF2a55BqozocHnxkE77GtnbKQ0eiw9WZicjI7YQTiQde-XNy70KMGH0wPQE_u0PlVyq_ZJRJK8hdPpaftiHV7vMoFcYwoX0naGRdDQO5grxxsX_-M0XZUGLWplDRuMD8GJ77FTg4Hq-Okyy0sS1MZMeyoegk0VS0ajEe7ylCvk4DCY26EbdTfRKfRW1KgzNjbgKjTCt739AUst_d76Qb6MyID7Ij-eCftn8Vj1WiHTuzYmxebkQ_-BCwHEGIchbD2wGyuCU372RaQh-9zSfajppgdyUsgWidH6O_1XOhjt7dPEV2-R1m2jXyvLBxQtnbjzDeSAp0CCerVEMsIgev-72iFnAJD3NkSmpcsCmD_Hsi5JJRs2AEKhvG2PpxMGY6T-BtM_YvXnvz4vlxJbSw8azpYOCAK9Pm-gQEoUqjILKbrgkrJ3sWECQrQ=w645-h484-no width="298" height="227" caption="Lune Mill River House"]] || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660099; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[[image:https://www.google.com.au/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,wvk7LbeyPLDDUh7loIE8tyIDjV2HybnHubxHl44_zu_927bptM7GwSnMtPm97IIPu3nnzDY9VAuAfwCZ5eTKBthH3qNlk2iOnRKGRV4txHmyF1TOaP9WIY2KQYlNAo1r3KJdDD7pd6g3wxwrOtxC8UHK551PDmSFb3MQ7DImxu_2d_pFvkjZODHpHj7JImCpdn3ysfhrRoKB0JQ9Hwh5p2hRa0Oe6X7-UgmNT6wNOnPEnXMkMzB4e7bnzKBd5e0j_Dsd4Sw8loZeJP2BKIbbBAeI1QvegQ width="345" height="234" caption="Map of Lune River, Tasmania Australia" link="https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Lune+River+TAS+7109/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0xaa6c1a43de00e367:0x403c94dd0de09e0?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJp9DD-MLPAhVG1oMKHfeiAkwQ8gEIfTAL"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fHWQYEuMt1vCxHlNoOjKiH0kVcX914mprAImwvK_kPDk5woA7zum5tpeTb9QPPxeE3L1Kj4lon5nxQsXyDZYCud6tMe2ayKv93GQ4uisZ2HyuAid7mwDTkG5-vKV2cJqW43PjnM4rM7DV98xsIPp_0cuWcllKGPyaqTfhLwc1kZjWB8kH2Cq8nfazHjLAzFglk4ZVuVx760eOmi03Jj4RTcmSuURY-MBhNpYdXaVxBRf5nWA6e0MXR62rs0T9NfzZDUm7SGEAz3p05-Hk_uWKTe3b7ddzpy-LXbPHKHZZ5ZohEZ7KyDcgZp5wupd1XprYOHl4O7sF9MQuvp3gMEypmXtRqv807mgW-BqaJknCvFpMuSLbRT9PCUpGQNaoXR9VcO2-gg0tjm6FzWXbxdsAXKivNTKeAa3vWRUmptizhVyDbBr3Pzq4CF47fPbLrTBU7wJcXjFg1Itgg_rmwkd1t9PKn2MJjvXgt1vndpY20JEW_78G2t5bxUWWXkdFHrNBV2eJnmIKNvOy7F_3D7qSXD2JgBgFYdDzYyR3wiAElzPmiLXUeg8X_jiyfBRH3KFwDWOQ_hmlFHjY4rw1ZM_RhFEf5NNxLmPBOQqqizLW5DmitSRvA=w1146-h859-no width="306" height="231" caption="Ida Bay Railway"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1P314gFr_1FGGNILYiOwNkMpvb8HRHkujoMwvMHyWggpPmnmY9wBts9pSS-yEpYeEcwRu475Oxsp4twczmYxxNStPI80sh20QEKWkCW3tcflloTkUXb1J8wzSiNtsqu2Vs20byw4zORLGycmceJ1qQvTi__2gCfRLJ89LtIEPtxnOb4iDcY0ZBJ6uyzfA3XarRotV2sJN55jwHi-XC38aWr9hLa6Jya48jyPeTdfbbblmDwmEBaa-72mdJs1GX32WhnRGEffQwBpdJ5-T2lz0ZmkVBHlNx3aMT_7swNG_pyjqzMgJVCeVO8cmnS6i245EZ1v1Z7N0byoxzhEc14utPGLPD2HdkEsN32B9T0GZSIBu6ttH2MHPqvlC-PUHjn_IJ7zm5ZAV4h6htzTixuHaYB7WbKd8nJqjsGvqwi4hBvYbDHSBwXfGEkXA3CvPXDlf3cUb7uZmrusQ6hxyGFLsKk_gqTxj9Uzj9e1S1-kpQp9sotXKdDLeTVFvSioefLIQT3IghSCZdjfAosGuVHpav9YFSt1tzzLdY6fSoHJUZzxfJdJ9wdAP9miW_dS4goMAjIcGCiWS45YXyHlM1Q_-86cNEjkKe-4zOEadUsU_WnHcBT_yw=w736-h549-no width="305" height="228" align="center" caption="Fossicking results in the Area of Lune River"]] ||
 * The Lune River area is noted for its fossils, particularly those from the [|Jurassic] period. [|[2]]
 * The Lune River township is the departure point for the [|Ida Bay Railway].

Lune River National Heritage
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #a33c23; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13 results found.

===LR1. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Actaeon Island Game Reserve], Catamaran, TAS, Australia=== Actaeon Island is a 15.65 [|ha] [|dolerite] island game reserve in south-eastern [|Australia] off Southport Lagoon (largest island to the Eastern end of this map). It is part of the Actaeon Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of [|Tasmania], at the southern entrance to the [|D'Entrecasteaux Channel] between [|Bruny Island] and the mainland. There is a [|navigation] [|beacon] on the highest point, 14 m [|asl]

The island, particularly the lower, southern part is completely surrounded by wave-worn dolerite cobbles and these form a narrow tombolo, some 100 m long, which links the two bedrock parts of the island. Ridges and terraces on the tombolo, and a general lack of vegetation (compared to the islands), indicate it is continually reworked by storm waves (Criteria: A.2, D.1).

Interestingly, the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot is historically known from the Actaeon Islands Game Reserve. Other heath birds include the southern emu-wren and the striated field wren.
 * On the evening of 12 March 1835 the George III, a convict transportation vessel, enroute from Great Britain to the colony, struck a reef directly offshore from the Actaeon //conservation area. The ship quickly began to break up. Convicts were confined to the hold at gunpoint until the ship’s longboat was launched and taking its first load of occupants to the safety of the nearby shore.//
 * The resultant loss of life from this shipwreck means it still stands as Tasmania’s third worst maritime accident.
 * None of the ship’s officers lost their lives, nor any soldiers. However 128 convicts, three children, the wife of a soldier and two crew members were drowned. In 1839 a monument, in the form of an inscribed tomb, was placed on Southport Bluff to record the event. (George 111 Monument).
 * (<span style="background-image: url(">[|Indicative Place] ) Register of the National Estate

===__LR2. Adamsons Falls Area__ Strathblane=== <span style="color: #545454; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">An interesting walk through wet forest with a rainforest understorey to a spectacular <span style="color: #545454; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">waterfall (after rain). Often Lyrebirds can be seen. The area grades from open dolerite talus on the summit of Adamsons Peak through subalpine scrub to rainforest and wet eucalypt forests on the wet south and south-east facing slopes. Adamsons Falls plunge spectacularly over an escarpment of Permian mudstone.

===LR3. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Cox Bight Area], Lune River, TAS, Australia=== The area covers most of the catchment of the short coastal stream, Cox Creek. Swampy sedgelands cover the flat valley floor. On the seaward slopes of the Bathurst Range are found rainforests dominated by myrtle, leatherwood and horizontal. The vulnerable plant, LOMATIA TASMANICA, is found in this forest. The very popular south coast walking track traverses the broad fine white sand beach.
 * Registered on the Register of the National Estate #11928

===LR4. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Esperance - Adamsons Peaks Area], Strathblane, TAS, Australia=== Adamsons Peak is an important area for increasing understanding of Holocene vegetation history and displays evidence of past glaciation. (Criterion A1) The peaks provide excellent views to the world heritage area.
 * Adamsons Peak has a very rich alpine flora. (Criterion A2)
 * Between Adamsons Peak and Esperance Peak 'windrows' of shrubbery have formed which are aligned with the prevailing westerly winds.These windrows are separated by short alpine heaths.
 * There is a palynological site at Adamsons Peak.
 * Adamsons Peak also displays evidence of past glacial activity through presence of cirque formation.
 * Adamsons Peak is significant for rare and endangered plants - SENECIO PAPILLOSUS (rated by Briggs and Leigh as 2rca), TROCHOCARPA DISTICHA (2rc-), MONOTOCA aff. LINIFOLIA (3rca) and GEUM TALBOTIANUM (3rca). PSEUDOPANAX GUNNII (3rca) and PHEBALIUM OLDFIELDII (3rc-) are also likely to be within the area. The area has moderate wilderness values. (Criterion B1)
 * Registered on the Register of the National Estate #11934

===LR5, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T29. <span style="background-image: url(">Exit Cave State Reserve <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;"> Lune River, TAS === <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With a length of 23 km, Exit is the longest known cave in Australia, and is noted for its immense chambers, sandy stream bank deposits and impressive glow-worm display. The Exit Cave area is now contained within the Southwest National Park. At this time access is restricted to authorised speleological parties.
 * Largest and longest limestone cave in Australia.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Applications for permits for caves in the south, should be made to the Senior Ranger, 24 Main Rd, Huonville, 7109. Fax (03) 6264 8473
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Registered (originally termed "East Cave"}//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exit Cave is a large, multi-entrance system in Southern Tasmania.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is arguably the longest cave system in Australia. Read more: Exit Cave
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Register of the National EstateRecord Identifier: 11921

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">LR6, N4, T26. Hastings Caves State Reserve, Lune River, TAS === <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The Hastings Caves State Reserve is the setting of a complex of caves and a natural hot springs located 102 km south of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Newdegate Cave, the largest dolomite cave in Australia open to tourists, is a part of the complex. More at <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a0dab; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[|Wikipedia] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hastings Caves State Reserve offers visitors a variety of from relaxing in the warm waters of a thermal springs pool, walking in the rich forests of the reserve and, of course, the unique experience of exploring Newdegate Cave on a guided tour.
 * [[image:http://www.visithobartaustralia.com.au/images/HastingsCaves.jpg width="425" height="285" caption="Hastings Caves"]] || [[image:http://www.visithobartaustralia.com.au/images/Hastings_Thermal_Pool.jpg width="423" height="283" caption="Hastings Thermal Pool"]] ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Named after Sir Francis Newdegate, the Governor of Tasmania from 1917-1920, Newdegate Cave is the largest tourist cave in Australia which occurs in dolomite, rather than limestone. Adamson s Falls and Adamson s Peak, the Mystery Creek Caves are accessed from Hastings.
 * ([|Registered]) on the Register of the National Estate

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">N5, LR7. Ida Bay State Reserve, Ida Bay Road, Lune River, TAS === <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The 425 hectare Ida Bay State Reserve is managed for the protection of its historic, recreational and natural values.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px;">A narrow gauge railway, built around 1920, and extensively upgraded in the 1940s is located within the State reserve. It runs along the southern shore of the Lune River estuary and terminates at Deephole Bay.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px;">The railway was originally established to transport limestone from Ida Bay quarries to vessels berthed first within the Lune River Estuary, and later at Deephole Bay. The railway has, discontinuously since 1981, been operated under a lease agreement as a tourist attraction. There is access to Southport Lagoon and King George III monument via railway operation.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aboriginal middens are present in the reserve. The area is the habitat for plant species with restricted distributions in Tasmania, CAESIA ALPINA (r2) and CALADENIA VULGARIS (r3).

===LR8. [|Lune River Geological Sites] Lune River Road, Lune River, TAS, Australia=== <span style="font-family: 'normal Arial',Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;">

Lune River Geoheritage Site is important for its geoheritage values. That is, it contains features or processes which demonstrate the principal characteristics of the regional geodiversity (geology, landforms, soils), or which are unusual or outstanding aspects of it. Diverse depositional glacial features overlay the bedrock. The area around Lune River is one of only two places in Tasmania with evidence of glaciation to present sea level. (Criterion B.1)
 * Geodiversity has intrinsic value within any systematic approach to heritage identification and conservation. It is also fundamental to the integrity of broader ecological processes, contributing to the richness and interest of our environment, and provides opportunities for scientific study of the earth's development.
 * The two first order geological provinces in Tasmania, the Fold Structure Province and the Fault Structure Province meet at the place, demonstrating the basic elements of the Tasmanian landscape. There is a high degree of diversity of rock types and formations representative of these major divisions.
 * The bedrock geology ranges from Jurassic (150 my BP) dolerite and basalt, Triassic (200 my BP) sandstone, Permian (250 my BP) mudstone, Ordovician (424 - 520 my BP) limestone to pre-Cambrian (600 my BP) dolomite. Structural landforms include a fault-line escarpment, strike ridge and residual basalt ridges and spurs. (Criterion A.3) [Identified in an earlier listing]
 * The Lune River Geological Site is the only known place in Tasmania and one of only three places in Australia where Jurassic basalt occurs. It is also the only known place in Tasmania where fossils are associated with Jurassic basalt. These include an array of plant materials from ferns and primitive coniferous trees. Several specimens of the fossil plant material represents type localities for the description of the various species. (Criteria B.1, C.1) [Identified in an earlier listing]
 * ([|Indicative Place]) Register of the National Estate

===LR9. [|Lune River Timber Tramway Group],Lune River, TAS, Australia=== The Lune River Timber Tramway and Log Hauler Group is important for its association with the timber industry, and as a good and highly intact example of a timber transport complex (Criteria A.4 and D.2). The timber industry is a major Tasmanian industry and has been operating since the early nineteenth century. During the 1850s, timber getting was revolutionised with the introduction of the timber tramway that enabled the movement of large and regular volumes of timber from the bush to mills and wharves. This form of transport operated until at least the 1950s.

The Lune River Timber Tramway - Marble Hill Spurline is a good and relatively intact example of a timber tramline associated with this major phase of timber harvesting. It retains some of the most impressive timber tramline in the southern forests. While such tramlines have been numerous and extensive, the Marble Hill Spurline generally appears to be in better condition and display a higher level of integrity than most other surviving tramlines. For example, it includes a timber landing which is one of the better preserved features of its type. (Criteria A4 and D2)

The Lune River Tramway Log Hauler Group is a good and highly intact example of a log hauler site associated with this major phase of timber harvesting. While such log haulers have been numerous, the Lune River Tramway Log Hauler Group generally appears to be in better condition and display a high level of integrity. (Criteria A4 and D2) The following description is based on Kostoglou 1994:
 * //Lune River Timber Tramway - The line seems to have consisted of two principal spurs branching off the main line at a point 2 km west of the river side sawmill.//
 * //The main line departed the mill and traversed an easy grade over a plain before branching at the two km mark. The line can still be plainly traced to the fork. The nominal grade only required minimal bridgework and the remnant line therefore consists of a sleeper sequence with parallel spar rails laid over the top. The numerous fires through this dry sclerophyll plain have destroyed several sections of the main line.//
 * //From the junction, the northern spur traverses north west for a km before turning due west and following the south bank of Lune River for another 2 km to its suspected terminus. A lesser spurline heads westward from the main line 1 km south of the junction.//
 * //The southern spurlines are the longer spurline sequence, measuring some 11 km in total. From the junction this line proceeds south for three km before branching into four tertiary spurlines. These tertiary spurs travel to Lune Sugarloaf, Marble Hill, Mystery Creek and Tom's Bottom.//

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">LR10, N9. Maatsuyker Island and Surrounds, Catamaran, TAS === <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'normal Arial',Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maatsuyker Island is the second largest (after De Witt) of six islands in the Maatsuyker group.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The island is roughly triangular in shape and covers about 190 hectares, its highest point being approximately 280 metres above sea level. The island lies ten kilometres from the Tasmanian mainland.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maatsuyker Island is part of the Western Tasmania Wilderness National Parks World Heritage Area, and is scenically spectacular, with jagged cliffs rising precipitously from the sea and jumbled rocks and boulders on the shoreline.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Several sea caves occur on the coast of the island. The smaller Walker Island lies to the north of Maatsuyker Island, and The Needles, a chain of pyramidal rocks 100 metres in height, lie to the south.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The latter are devoid of vegetation except a few plants of Bower Spinach (TETRAGONIA IMPLEXICOMA) and Pigface (CARPOBROTUS ROSSII) near their summits.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walker Island is small (11 hectares) and steep-sided with severely stunted, wind-pruned vegetation. It provides breeding habitat for many species of birds.

Maatsuyker Light Station (including Lighthouse and Keepers Houses), Maatsuyker Island

 * see listing above
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3579

===LR11. De Witt Island Catamaran, TAS === De Witt Island, also known as Big Witch, is an [|island] located close to the [|south-western] coast of [|Tasmania], Australia.
 * The 516-hectare (1.99 sq mi) island is the largest of the [|Maatsuyker Islands Group], and comprises part of the [|Southwest National Park] and the [|Tasmanian Wilderness][|World Heritage Site].
 * The islands are erosional remnants of the Tasmanian mainland, and are typically steep-sided and rocky.
 * The island is listed on the Australian [|Register of the National Estate].[|[2]]

De Witt Island is important for natural landscapes and for its undisturbed catchments. It is a relatively undisturbed area with topographic and catchment integrity where natural processes remain essentially unmodified and unimpeded by human intervention (Criterion A.2).
 * It is also significant as an area of high wilderness quality and for its importance in maintaining existing natural processes (Criterion A.2).
 * Wikipedia
 * Jane Cooper: They Could Spend A Year Searching For Me...
 * Register of the National Estate #102860

===LR12. [|Spider Den Area] Hastings Caves Road, Lune River, TAS, Australia=== // Photo by Paul Flood // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px;">Dwelling in the underground world of caves is an astonishing array of fascinating creatures. Tasmania has one of the richest known cave faunas in temperate Australia, including spiders, crickets, beetles, slaters, snails, harvestmen, millipedes, pseudoscorpions and many other invertebrates.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px;">Cave ecosystems directly depend upon the surrounding surface environment. This means it is essential that we maintain the natural soil, vegetation, and water quality around caves. The special nature of karst makes it particularly vulnerable to degradation and such areas should be treated with special care.

SPIDER DEN is a significant site in terms of the evolution of invertebrate fauna, with important implications for evolutionary biology and the relationships of species within their particular zoological classifications. The section of the surrounding North Lune limestone karst in the broader nominated area has been glaciated and this glacio-karst area has evolved with significant natural features. These important features along with the subterranean drainage contribute to the overall integrity of the SPIDER DEN site and the inter-connected karst bio-space which contains the invertebrate cave fauna (Clarke, 1997b) and assist in the maintenance of the cave refugia for gene pool diversity and speciation. This endemic spider is the largest in Tasmania. A troglophile (an animal that can and does live in caves, but is capable of surviving outside), it is common in the entrance, twilight and transition zones of caves.
 * It is suggested that such species may have important implications for determining the effects and evolution of climate change (Hamilton- Smith, 1970; Holsinger, 1988). There are several new species including cave adapted Invertebrates: isopods, millipedes, spiders and a troglobitic harvestman (Clarke, 1997a).
 * Caves such as SPIDER DEN act as a refugia for invertebrate species In both evolutionary and bio-geographic distributional terms. Some cave invertebrate species such as Hickmanoxyomma cavaticum (Variety 3): [a species for which Spider Den is the type locality] have a disjunct (vicariant) distribution and/ or are distributional relicts which have evolved as reproductively isolated species in SPIDER DEN with no present surface-dwelling ancestor species (Clarke, 1997a; Hunt, 1990).
 * Tasmanian cave spider**
 * It also dwells in suitably dark, sheltered surface habitats such as in hollow logs or underneath buildings. It spins a large horizontal sheet web, around 1m across.
 * The spider’s main prey is cave crickets. Tasmanian cave spiders are believed to live for many years.
 * Mating involves a prolonged courtship, which begins with the male signalling his approach to the female by gently plucking the silk strands of her web. He carefully approaches the female whilst gently tapping her with his front legs. This signal seems to deter the female from attacking and eventually the two may join together.

Lune River Local Heritage
3 records found

LR13. Cottage, RA 175 Lune River Road, Lune River
This is a weatherboard house with a steeply pitched hipped roof featuring a gabled roofed dormer window. There is a verandah, with simple timber posts and a bullnosed roof, over a central door and flanking double hung windows.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3577

===LR14. House 230 Lune River Road, Ida Bay=== This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey stuccoed Victorian domestic building.
 * Description**: This is a single storey stuccoed building with a primary hipped roof and a projecting gable on both ends with a simple verandah between. Under this verandah is a centrally placed door and flanking double hung windows.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3569

LR15. Ida Bay Railway RA 328 Lune River Road, Lune River
(including abandoned sections and operating sections) The Ida Bay Railway is the last original bush tram in Australia with the outer terminus being the southernmost railway station in the country. The quarry (and thus the railway) is of heritage significance as a rare and outstanding example of of the //Decauville method// of removing quarried stone from the work face by means of portable narrow gauge track sections. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Tramway was opened in 1919 to facilitate the transportation of [|Limestone] from the quarry west of [|Lune River] to a jetty at Ida Bay.[|[1]]During 1975, freight operations ceased. The Tramway was purchased by the [|Tasmanian Government] in 1977 and leased to private operators for the purpose of a [|tourist attraction].[|[1]] Various lease holders ran the railway for years struggling to make a profit, but in 2004 the Line re-opened and has been running successfully for the last several years.
 * Description**: The site includes approximately six kilometres of operational railway track from the Ida Bay Works to Elliot Beach and all rolling stock associated with the railway and its former operations including the Malcolm Moore Rail Tractors, Hunslet B-N 1844 steam locomotive of 1936, rail motor, bogie flat wagons and associated buildings.
 * History:**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The two-hour round trip runs from the Lune River station through [|buttongrass] [|bushland] to the banks of Ida Bay and then onto the old limestone pier at Deep Hole, for a beachside stop before returning to the station. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marked bushwalking tracks lead to Southport Lagoon. Barbecu facilities, toilets, picnic lunches, group bookings, [|twilight] tours and overnight camping spots are also available.
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #8215

LR16. Limestone Quarries, Cockle Creek, Lune River
> The quarry is soon reached and the trail continues along the lefthand side of the quarry face.
 * [[image:https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2927/14763363291_8ca82ac8cd_n.jpg caption="Mystery Creek Caves Track" link="@http://tastrails.com/mystery-creek-caves-photos/"]] || [[image:https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5583/14743549276_d6f29e41aa_n.jpg width="270" height="182" caption="Mystery Creek Caves Track"]] ||
 * //Originally Registered by the Tasmanian National Trust//
 * Located on the eastern outskirts of the Southwest National Park, near the Ida Bay Railway, the Mystery Creek Caves track is a unique walking experience combining railroad and mining history with accessible and stimulating caving experiences.
 * Originally constructed as a tramway to facilitate a limestone quarry, the trail is mostly flat and easily managed by walkers of all levels.
 * The trail begins at the information shelter adjacent to the carpark and follows the muddy tramway track through spectacular dense forest for the first 1km. Keep an eye out of the many mining and rail relics that litter the edges of the trail as you meander your way through the forest.

=== LR17. Lune Mill River House, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Lune Mill Road in the far South of Tasmania ===

Only one of its kind. Once a mill. On the edge of world heritage wilderness and beautiful waterways. Rustic but comfortable with power, plenty of hot water, digital tv. 3 bedrooms Can anyone help with information of this historic building? Please add to the discussion below.
 * Photographs
 * Hire booking - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;">contact lunemillriverhouse@gmail.com Mobile (61) 0425254340 or (61) 0401818667 LuneMillRiverhouse.com

= Port Huon and Kermandie = Port Huon is a small community with big, sweeping views of the Huon River, Bruny Island, D'Entrecasteaux Channel and the Hartz Mountains.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ucWtnTRh_Al-KjlEMf7eQcghnMSIrr6Es_DPn_l5NKxVUuVoy-jmkPE_iJK41mF16gRDFhDUW6QPbQfMRcQHsJfii3qg_RO3Btgi1k5zm_XhQDeIbHuQul-tzNgEPYhwm7TWpdDW0o1F9zGh_yBVPMErl2XdHg7w2CsZMz68iq0fe7jBLnxWiff8CuvRqanStepZt5m0FIHc0dcCbLhX_DOolpb-xGz9EKqIJbmHDCARHFURFSRzAShyRxjnrAzqNeDPgsr4d1Ijtgb8tR4pw2RiyE1nk1NkyohXCvu08CxCv1Z53gqeuuDYMOIe3GL87wEadVlvwkrmpHN3tSWh8PMGu1RUs_8sh9cL-cBfafbxXYJKBOn9Nm1-VCZLuJfBKUcGx-8xicrLKvBzEaxWmRr73gQHrZWoNrsxuIdQCJkGqRmwOV-i8LEW4MX2RWSYmbDRM_MgFQ2wXtDrr5FCOwo7A7kKnLeohG1ImyG2P341g4yAt-hEQ71LG56hzAbYR2q1jKXHY6XxpmGBPJbdcvCZUF-i05NEO6zgelcjPjnMMc7Q7-ud51y9FUn3KnrOuXR4zushXuOl_P8x1H2db56fZs3_ezADJ3wwHTHWG6LiO_-c_g=w610-h456-no width="424" height="318" caption="Port Huon and Kermandie"]] || [[image:https://www.google.com.au/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,bHvayfwKYbOtaGVmiYi5IOG06pCiRopCxwRukNQnA-Jm92muuUWUEhKFqS6C3zeVYy4Jdls9CPXhQIBiODNENx_sjE0hl1ufl8KqpOnCa3Oo2va-kcp9DSIsKNpANECJzRJ3awEbWMPumP5OlVVZUM39hStrH7kXC-gtSGtz_9I0XFbRL43yKh8JsttJatgW1Gzh67divmeSkOMdrb5-jLfQPeNLMTaGWpDnsZiBokQr3hzu94Gp0W1AIEZvMlYygYNqEgJUdejUqhrbC879Rq8wN3K4cQ caption="Map of Port Huon TAS 7116"]] ||
 * Port Huon was once a busy trading port and the destination for international apple boats that transported and exported the region's famous apples to the world. The original port remains and is a quaint reminder of the glory days of apple growing.
 * Today, Port Huon is a departure point for boat cruises up the Huon River and is the site of some of Tasmania's successful Atlantic salmon farms. It's also a great place to stop and take in the views.

The Kermandie Hotel is the jewel in Port Huon's crown and has been providing food, drink and a rest stop for travellers since 1932. The hotel also has its own marina - perfect for boating types to rest their vessels.

PH1. Hartz View 4436 Main Road, Port Huon
Hartz View is of historic heritage significance because of its association with the prominent local timber merchants, the Geeves family, who built it. Description: This is a weatherboard house with opposing gable roofs, double hung attic windows and a verandah.
 * Sold $135,000 in May 1989
 * Land size: 2,271 sqm; Building size: 131 sqm; Build year: 1890
 * This site is of historic heritage significance because its townscape associations are regarded as important to the communitys sense of place.
 * Hartz View is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #7147

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">T15, PH2. Weatherboard Cottage, Huon Highway, Shipwright's Point, Port Huon
also known as: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">**Honeywood 4308 Huon Highway, Port Huon** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Honeywood is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.
 * 1850, Registered as **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Honeywood **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 4308 Huon Highway, Port Huon
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Description **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: This is a weatherboard cottage with a central door, flanking double hung windows and hipped roof with narrow boxed eaves.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Timber, hip roof and verandah
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The verandah on the street facade has hipped ends and single posts.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is a gabled roofed addition to the rear which is also of weatherboard construction.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3584

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T16, PH3. Stonehaven 44 Doodys Hill Road, Kermandie === <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building. This is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof, double hung windows flanking a central door and a verandah with timber posts and brackets. > Tasmanian Heritage Register listed #3533
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**(Weatherboard House, Kermandie Estuary)**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(R. Hill), c 1860, //Registered//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Sale listing with photographs//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The home has 3 bedrooms, the main with built in robe, there are Baltic pine ceilings throughout, the sitting room boasts dado board and there is pretty decorative borders in most rooms.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian;

PH4. House RA 34 Percy Street, Port Huon
This place has strong meaning for the community because it demonstrates aspects of Victorian society and contributes and historical element in the landscape. This house (and outbuildings) is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building. These characteristics are found in the external form, construction methods and the detailing, both externally and internally.


 * Description**: It is a single storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms, timber bargeboards and a verandah with bracketed posts. There are outbuildings with random stone bases and timber cladding.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3538
 * Demolished? Not visible through Satellite photographs.

PH5. House, 4208 Huon Highway, Port Huon
This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building. Description: This is a weatherboard house with a gabled roof, three gable roofed dormer windows, a projecting gabled roof and a raised verandah with a timber rail. The verandah returns around the corner of the house and terminates at a smaller projecting gable on the side of the house.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
 * Huon Valley Tasmanian Heritage Register #3583

PH6. House, 4030 Old Huon Highway, Castle Forbes Bay
This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building. Description: This is a single storey weatherboard cottage with a central door and flanking double hung windows. There is a verandah over the main entry door that features single timber posts.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3464

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.870588); display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif; font-size: 30px; vertical-align: top;">Ranelagh, Tasmania <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.870588); display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ranelagh is a township in the Huon Valley of Tasmania, Australia. A satellite town of Huonville, which it is adjacent to, it is a former agricultural area and now a tourist town and residence for workers who commute to other areas for work. <span style="color: #1a0dab; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Wikipedia] Wilmot St holds the heritage-listed Clifton estate (previously Matilda's of Ranelgh) [|[7]][|[8]] St Marys of the Cross Catholic Church and St James Anglican Church and respective cemeteries. [|[9]] Ranelagh also includes the [|Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy] winning Home Hill Winery [|[10]] and Huon Bush Retreats.
 * [[image:http://www.anglicantas.org.au/assets/p-frankesp-stjames.jpg caption="Image result"]] || [[image:https://www.google.com.au/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,NwoVceqQX3frPwIWz88D3TGn96xS8FlQvVUZCSaVbwOkpubhcfJSwEVjS5o5QKcvacNPZ2XdRI_J3L44MzOMrXxbKyP8ZCbjsjxKks-9h62CJq_RJVX_Frzg0trMgvO6wTZRz5Gv5qAzab5Ls4WgXPoIPH0WCi3c0GOUGWTyFxtBaGFJo5vkumrKCg33X6aF7JOhqcw1mokuvFoQXbOo8V30gH9VW6GvhIwiIIibzvZYJ_S2C4hNotYzi7Pt5hF4S6_3k7N9vD_kMzfA6AQycjiO5Q0c8g width="458" height="295" caption="Map of Ranelagh, Tasmania Australia"]] ||
 * A satellite town of Huonville, which it is adjacent to, it is a former agricultural area and now a tourist town and residence for workers who commute to other areas for work. At the 2011 census, Ranelagh had 1,027 people.[1]
 * It is best known for the Ranelagh Showgrounds which host the annual Huon Show and Taste of the Huon events which are major tourism attractions for the Huon Valley.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">Ranelagh is only a few kilometres from Huonville and is now almost a suburb of the larger town.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">A farm was established on one square mile of land which stretched from Ironstone Creek to the river. This property was originally known as Victoria and included the present site of Huonville. It was here that one of the largest hopfields in Tasmania was established.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">At the time it seemed that Ranelagh would become the major centre in the valley. However the construction of the bridge further downstream ensured that Huonville prospered while Ranelagh made little progress.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">It is a comment on the changing fortunes of the two settlements that Ranelagh has three churches (Anglican, Roman Catholic and Uniting) while Huonville, now the larger centre, has only one (Congregational).
 * Located on the Huon River 39 km southwest of Hobart, Huonville is a small but thriving community serving the surrounding apple, timber and hops industries. Although it is relatively small Huonville is recognised as the major centre in the Huon Valley.
 * No Ranelagh properties are on the Australian Heritage Register.

Ranelagh Local Heritage
6 Records found

R1. __Amesbury__ 51 Agnes Street, Ranelagh TAS
Sold $545,000 in May 2011; Last Sold $500,000 in Jul 2009 This is a single storey weatherboard house with a projecting hipped roof on the street facade with a cant bay window. There is a second projecting hipped roof on the side elevation. Between these two is a return verandah with cast iron brackets. The front door has side and top lights and features six panels. The windows are double hung.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3586

R2. Clifton, now Matilda's, 2 Louisa Street, Ranelagh TAS
A ten-bedroom, nine-bathroom property, 2 Louisa Street, Ranelagh, named 'Clifton', was asking for $1,750,000, and comes with a royal stamp of approval, having been visited by the Queen in the 1970s during a Royal Tour.
 * The visit was covered at the time in the Australian Women's Weekly, with an example of the article displayed in the library of the home.
 * The Queen's brief visit to Ranelagh was part of Tasmania's presentation of the apple harvesting process.

While the entire property is circa 1850, the main house was built from 1865 and is a landmark of the Huon Valley having once been part of a significant family enterprise before selling outside of the family for the first time in 2000.
 * The property includes a 25-room house, two cottage rooms, a four-car carport, a three-storey hop drying kilm called Oast House, which includes guest accommodation, two apple pickers' huts and a number of sheds.
 * One of the cottages, Tilly's Cottage, was remodelled in 2007 out of a 1960s paint-shed for bed and breakfast guests, with these properties all being constructed at different times.

Read the story and view the pictures at propertyobserver.com <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Matilda's is a grand, twenty five room farm house that forms part of Clifton; a five acre National Trust listed property, bounded by Mountain River. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The house was lived in by five generations of the same family between 1855 and 2000, and welcomed the first accommodation guests in 2001, going on to collect several tourism awards. This is a weatherboard building with a series of projecting gabled roofs to the front. These are detailed with brackets and weatherboard skirts. There is also a timber verandah with brackets. To the rear of the building is a courtyard. Some early sections of this building are sandstone. The site also contains a timber oast house with an hexagonal drying tower.
 * The grounds include massive specimens of Oak, Maple and Plane trees, hidden corners and historic outbuildings, including charming sheds, Pickers Huts and the magnificent Oast House, which was fully restored by the current owners in 2012.
 * The extensive gardens - adorned with more charm than order - provide bulbs in spring, roses in summer, a golden brilliance in autumn and a restful calm in winter.
 * Read more at propertyobserver.com.au
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Queen Anne
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3589

R3. 'Avondale' 209 Lollara Road, Ranelagh TAS
"Privately set back from the road behind established myrtle hedges, with a playful fenced lawn, this heritage listed 1920s home was superbly restored in 2013. "Historically, a significant property in the area, once the central part of a large apple orchard, and a local dairy, the legacy of these pasts remain in the original large apple shed and dairy." media type="custom" key="28699442" Description: This is a single storey weatherboard house with a projecting hipped roof on the street facade with a cant bay window. There is a second projecting hipped roof on the side elevation. Between these two is a return verandah with cast iron brackets. The front door has side and top lights and features six panels. The windows are double hung.
 * No stone was left unturned in the tasteful and classic renovations which have enhanced the true character of the pressed tin ceilings, original architraves, doors and polished Tasmanian Oak floors."
 * This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian style domestic building.
 * Sale listing and photographs
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation/Victorian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3593

R4. House, 60 Helen Street, Ranelagh
This building is of historic heritage significance because its townscape associations are regarded as important to the communitys sense of place. This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building.


 * Description**: This is a weatherboard house with a complex hipped roof, projecting gabled roof with a fretted timber barge board and verandah that turns around the corner of the house terminating on a second projecting gable. There are several hipped roofed extensions to the rear of the building.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3592

R5. House, 150 Lollara Road, Ranelagh
Sold $700,000 in Dec 2014; Last Sold $239,000 in Jun 2007 This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building. Description: This is a single storey weatherboard house with a projecting hipped roof on the street facade with a cant bay window. There is a second projecting hipped roof on the side elevation. Between these two is a return verandah with cast iron brackets. The front door has side and top lights and features six panels. The windows are double hung.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian
 * Huon Valley Tasmanian Heritage Register 3588

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">R6, T3. St. James Anglican Church, Wilmot Road, Ranelagh

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Registered, Tasmanian Heritage Register Place ID #3590
 * The first church of St James', Ranelagh was built in 1853 in brick. This was replaced by another Hunter designed timber church in 1880 but was unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1885.
 * The current church, also heritage listed, was completed in 1896. The existing church was consecrated by Bishop Montgomery on 8 November 1896.<span class="reference" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.75px; vertical-align: baseline;">[1]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Websites: [|Parishes | Anglican Church in Tasmania] - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|St James' Anglican Church Ranelagh] (organ)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tasmanian Heritage Register Place ID #3590
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read all about Ranelagh Anglican Church
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[image:http://www.anglicantas.org.au/assets/p-frankesp-stjames.jpg width="199" height="197"]][[image:http://www.ohta.org.au/images/Ranelagh2.jpg width="292" height="196"]]

History of the parish
The parish, which is the southernmost in the Anglican Church in Australia, had its beginnings in 1839 with the consecration of a wooden church (St Mary’s) built for the settlement by Lady Franklin. St Mary’s was replaced by St John’s Church, designed by the great Pugin disciple Henry Hunter which was consecrated in May 1864. The current church, also heritage listed, was completed in 1896. The existing church was consecrated by Bishop Montgomery on 8 November 1896.
 * It is a gem of a small 19th Century gothic revival church and is heritage listed. In the 1840s there was also a stone church at Southport associated with the Probation station. The first church of St James', Ranelagh was built in 1853 in brick. This was replaced by another Hunter designed timber church in 1880 but was unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1885.

By the second half of the 19th Century the Parish included the Huon Valley, the Channel and the Far South with 12 church centres. It was a big area on horseback or foot for a rector. In recent times many churches have been either sold or destroyed by bush fires. These include: Currently about 50 people regularly worship each Sunday in the parish which comprises two centres. It boasts a picturesque landscape of sweeping hills, rivers, mountains and fertile valleys, and is known for its diversity in agriculture, fisheries and forestry. The area borders the Hartz Mountains and South West National Park.
 * Towards the end of the latter half of the 19th century Cygnet-Channel became a separate parish.
 * By the 1940’s the Huon had become three parishes all with rectories: Franklin, Geeveston and Esperance.
 * The latter half of the 20th century saw the gradual amalgamation back to one parish.
 * St Andrew’s Mountain River
 * St David’s Crabtree
 * St Peter’s Cradoc
 * St Andrew’s Port Huon
 * St Bartholomew’s Strathblane, Southport & Glendevie
 * St Paul’s Dover

No Longer Heritage Listed in Ranelagh
2 Records found

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T1. Stone House (Lucas) (c1860) Lucaston Road Ranelagh
===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T2. Glen House, Glen Road, Ranelagh ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//[[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FHIHcH4NbUrEs9d69wlXw0fYolmt5ZT0zTukYa0PsGFLKXy2zNSrlM-BbwfVT6ZXPf-TEBaRil1J0hFo_3_X9sccnrAH1O_KnmmAyuukiQM3Rs0lcmt0u25Ngpaz2U_U-BuDuEdPMrQ1bklm3g1DDxZihqz72HfLcg6bww0aFToDsBqMSEQ0H1RSUpq-DpjCqKtBphwK6XBDKluvMhbWGE7EFW84PNEtpkzEarXUzJ7uSIVHY6Dhwx6GGxbhTvt7NIZZLQLNm55ienb17c0sQ8L1xw_PEcNtRXk1_mo0g34J8L4h7Ls-E-5R5EiyGN_fH4Re-JNW3o4G0xH1qXzs3WrvH2gUrqetLQesKROmzdatJ7jEBGgnXWl81oo_bS1ad15whxGuFYprNjiHJOd425oWMDHDkSqA4Q-CWGMuHHdeA7U798G8NOlzoIq3EdmkKfFU1IHYoH3hq0nKGBfdIL4Pqs-5X_N_cnHJAznH-qg_SpwhLUzQVnPq-vUfua0oabIlYYQbBk_mLra-zVFs0Kx60JCRdDfVpvqGVg4YeoEHtv6gQ0OrvtDFInrjhykFBmTQn2059n4-OyVKj4BVGgQeYYJS9tXtHEkHRfi0_bC0rWHk3g=w279-h201-no align="left" link="@https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TGxt1p_srhX6AnmqWS1t0euY542HyGc8eq708t-YN3yiKjOkIkdqPe4AoybQHZTdT10VEZEJ1Ysj-vb0C58ZFdWzfrcRHlF8I1g-pMhZlYXreOA9fmBK-FjsxYIni0xhdoTssX1RIr9l-GK60-YztLuNEak1xMwL-PNJcHSSRju3mZ5OxGN2VxToWjV261-pjrWq9QMxxGfNI2c2O-vTq7rjeaI_TQLakyTSaISmLYFuil7Wm9PNKvelbpRackDvJEQxWEmwM9lKhfSGgjCO3RUuQBbvzGUpa4a-Mn6QTAEY2sPSPovLHwNu0TXYnfFrY8sPPvkUXQVRSlwZQ0XvFL1Pm9MTgJ-9Fj2b35QfMc0Deh1gjULDAOZTFDAuKP2Dsr5jdQ6lJ-yDGaMfcEfTF6QDdExxCVtgY3T2G5MKtxvE_BqSlMpVffP7rpcrjFaVUBLDM79ocW7nnrqHgmIH6SRGJj-WiY8JDWppHnoQWkXuw_GLYvmNxmVo8ENbpDcOf5dDDSc_CLMv9cgBo9kd86Z1V_R8-WPuxW0nxhWwy0MShdTYwYsp18cU8yzx91UKemFpYv-O79X2gz0GT6vVKNeMe5y5Bo7jY6PagLDGdO7kX3iC6g=w1114-h803-no"]]Registered//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Possibly ruins? at Tahune Fields nursery entrance: <span class="_Xbe" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">106 Lucaston Rd, Lucaston TAS 7109
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Thos. Walton, originally used as a school) //Registered//
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cqO165mQxRpu_pHVu2TQzSthugoHX6NmgiriNLbJgQ65MIVuSrxn_OKwjVsSK6PEYtN5dYtEZqrCjtasUvVRm3PtsE3KJbn-m5_9Tuu4vb1meu-Xm85xui8w-M75fl2AdbJzXbl4Z7lvugIwIZW8rgY483pfUnN9c-YXd4XJZnOU-gqCD9DPkDM3V2bNPH2FZJPzwxptJD-YkhwKbeNtZ33cYU4-rtMrvdOE4UmmXgFB-mEyHq8wqoeCCTpFqGony9-BrGJyQbtWgvitg6gMBK1REqO0iO9nXlwdxgDo2GCdIKHCROmuh5SLEFXMf5cFZEtE67PizguTfLqP9bZ0mSMtYFYxJhS1mBKK1OYKZqBbgjLro2npHevOCvIJAcHz7ykG6S3QuOzp_vuA-GePC3NnHgL29NUd8oxuq4UbkVqj5VhJboerFP_IMpACmkSuZGO9CWgdne2zeqMFrVs--hKmGjW_yB1GCEzaJfKLjb-lah1q4aIsC1_QkJkgFGONrHSrn0i3ut9GPCS9t4RNX8j9zAbcGxqjRfFtzZM6tcuVAW1ePRPuloyUHyos9TUyE2s-3KcpFbumvqLKgNuw1VcErvjV7pZQVW-MGSJ-hEZ13QNOkA=w376-h380-no caption="Empire Day at Ranelagh State School 1918"]] ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Former Home of G.T. Stilwell, Glen House, Ranelagh
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">possibly demolished?


 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/LUeMH80zvsSuK4bSlLeSabSyW6xtW7cXyyNPu8eT6v6noAzvti_sI2IedV8OGGOoHGwG-uy1HmOEFmFbF9S_VsG-f6T7r6r2DIAFpg7LsIoCjJDaI380ykNFpurW5rXNtznbVKSFryW4oBTFSoTt5AEFi4JSYQpmCIPJ-NfHrXfLSzmI7gXNCeGjSsy61ND-QNG00JFoFl15esWfGYBOUOVL9lsnDS1Jv6ck6y_ZfkuyzDiF1ciTFQMbt-f6NdpLjqXia-ZlRpKnHe8LoK9rm64o0LnJkx_JN9PJzOLeCZvrgToUJiKvwMc1gaAIyxdi7yYV6Pv0oNGQDMZgvDtxiLZs_UVFbMiWeYGRdga3wGIQmYwwFDqouMLomVUkYSrD9uRd055XPOjwu5xXFT_QpoY55EDSH3tCWqOWMhXMQkTSHD0DuMinLHtlEimuz3crADu0EAxaZ9cgdMd19PcR4GExcthQIE-nBZEHLpQ81QfWPewmScZERnnLcTzKHP5Gpa3Jhji1FDIsKK8-gaqgLiwLp7j1VEwfZxpE1B93jvlbpfaOK2I_PSfrQe0zCTtxBgGjdlnXMZQ7-1CBnLN3gA1vNVaPONIYDU4YvVYP5SP6Zci6lA=w264-h191-no caption="Southport Lagoon"]] || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660099; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[[image:https://www.google.com.au/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,ufr7vHzq_Ycjyc0pZV4JWVS2C4tKTMKN6Efae6uwOAlWiW0X2XeBiv8cv-nEmll4R8m1WsFrDUpG7pBOjDbz59Qn6tMpq3CLa-kGRX3bnDqs9S3FEzHEOtwvqpUrf8xJpixG6PSz4QqWY5AsdVMGo6VhaITs47r7uJsLeVeyFtBIu8rNAw width="301" height="191" caption="Map of Southport, Tasmania Australia" link="https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Southport+TAS+7109/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0xaa6c1710f0f971b9:0x403c94dd0de0bf0?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjL5YfJy8PPAhULx2MKHVH5A_wQ8gEIiwEwDw"]] ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.870588); display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">Southport, Tasmania Southport is a small township in far south Tasmania, the most southern township in Australia. The suburb of Southport had a population of 372 in 2011. [|Wikipedia] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Australia's southernmost settlement**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;"> Like most of the southwest coast Southport was first explored by Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux in 1792 who named the bay 'Baie des Moules' (Mussel Bay).

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;"> It can, however, hardly claim to be a settlement of much significance any more, a far cry from the early 1800's when it was Tasmania's second largest town and it was proposed as the capital of the colony. Located 104 km southwest of Hobart, Southport can claim to be the southernmost settlement in Australia.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now a sleepy coastal village off the main road, in the early 1800s Southport was a convict station, bustling mill town and international port.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Being Tasmania's second largest town at that time, it was proposed as the capital of the colony. Today, it is just a nice quiet spot to relax, go swimming, sail the calm waters of Southport Bay, walk on the beach or a little fishing. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Southport township was founded on 16th February 1864 but the Southport Probation Station was built in 1841. To Southport there were sent 500 male convicts.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where is it?: 104 km south west of Hobart, in the Huon Valley.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Southport was the southern most probation station built right on the shore a few miles north of the whaling settlement of Recherche Bay.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discovery
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On September 28th 1791 two ships sailed from Brest. Significantly renamed Recherche and Esperance they represented the hopes and aspirations of an emerging new revolutionary order. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next day the two ships were towed by their long boats into the northern arm of the bay just beyond the present Bennett's Point named by the Hydrographer, Beautemps-Beaupre, Port du Nord. Over the next 26, days the Bay saw much activity.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">France was experiencing a time of great change. King Louis XVI and his family were no longer autocratic rulers and a more egalitarian Constituent Assembly was in place. Several years before Comte de La Prouse had led an expedition of exploration and scientific research into the Pacific. By 1791 he hadn't been heard of for three years not since sending dispatches home from Botany Bay.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In response to this an expedition was mounted under the command of Rear­ Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux to discover the fate of La Perouse and to engage in scientific study in the South Pacific. He chose his close friend and fellow officer, Huon de Kermadec to command the Esperance.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some of the best French scientists applied to join the Expedition, no expense was spared in outfitting the ships and every crew member was deliberately chosen to ensure a successful voyage. By and large most of the officers were Royalists and most of the scientists were Republicans, reflecting the current political trend in France.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/60c0OBXKR4gWtvNmPQJzPmg8skCHPU2j8UTRrahNr59jf5-nHsa5gXM6sn_oQoOP12Led2bDRqks7Cn-_Gtl9zeC5nAbO65lRL0F5GHPCd9fbXjdKyk9ulP7a2ggLaTFoRltDPZPlC4I9tuW4HobgJaXg2R9aM5Qr3n2iTXLQcBtKrv2VqmXSRGqkxCuHfk7cjFHp8W1dDulS0ym3GUi45O522c-ir7lGIaoSMXMROfFRCo00TCm9tlCncQ3k6cOz7Z6Sr5eQBAURD3vwXhtkJTns3vPbYKifuDtORBdfo0uNcs9LdgV08StntwijL0noGrTC1QWyb2zLFi_sbjiCbX7A9zWke7aNpigVvqA5QCmfoCzvKddvVEXCCz9RVrseJpqh_rhwbfxeDtVydG9wuuGSvfRy-l4ltvVgT63_XpvvvC2AG_yVk49gcp4ZtFGD44ob_uK7gqggBDUPtYtbTCpa9PXUt9RNcqZ3jr3ierHY3_8iBpRK8ivrQ9SWi07O0IPzcRN5aUbE9Jgnl89GXKQ_lzDQgu2-Q15OOnpT3mUVIXta-1v80qugIKnbSqhIPQgKVEXgPmCb_9-H7ccF0S7JDSnRQrH=w800-h493-no width="395" height="245" align="left" caption="Top of Ironbound Ranges looking toward Louisa Bay and beyond" link="@http://ourhikingblog.com.au/2012/01/south-coast-track-tasmania-trip-report-and-great-photographs.html"]]<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">D'Entrecasteaux decided to make for the one safe harbour shown on the charts left by Captains Cook and Bligh, Adventure Bay in southern Van Diemen's Land.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Battered by unrelenting storms the two bedraggled vessels sighted the coast on Van Diemen's Land on the 21 st of April, 1792.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Due to a navigational error, 19 west instead of 19 East the ships found themselves outside the entrance to a large harbour. Concerned over unfavourable winds and nearby threatening reefs d'Entrecasteaux sent long boats ahead into the bay to do soundings while the two ships tacked for two hours across the entrance. At 4:50 the Admiral signaled 'anchors down' and the weary crew complied.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But where were they?
 * The ships were <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">careened, timber was cut for repairs and the making of charcoal.
 * The botanists Labillardire, Riche and Ventenat busily collected, catalogued and preserved hundreds of hitherto unknown flora and fauna including the Eucalyptus Globulus, Tasmanian Blue gum which later on became the state emblem.

So impressed by the beauty and tranquility of their surrounding the normally unemotional d'Entrecasteaux was moved to record in his journal:
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"...Trees of an immense height and proportionate diameter, their branchless trunks covered with evergreen foliage, some looking as old as the world;
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"...Nature in all her vigour, and yet in a state of decay, seems to offer to the imagination something more picturesque and more imposing than the sight of this same nature bedecked by the hand of civilised man.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Wishing only to preserve her beauties we destroy her charm, we rob her of that power which is hers alone, the secret of preserving in eternal age eternal youth."

=Southport National Heritage=

7 Records found: The history of the area is rich:
 * the French National Assembly Expedition of 1792 lead by D'Entrecasteaux used this area as a base for the scientific exploration of Recherche, the Huon, Channel, Derwent region and Bruny Island;
 * since then human occupation has principally associated with resource extraction including mining, forestry and whaling While little physical evidence remains to mark these early European activities, those that do exist have heritage value at the local, state and even national level.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many Aboriginal people once lived in the area, as revealed in the observations of the earliest European expeditioners. While largely unrecorded, Aboriginal sites must still be present in the landscape. These are protected under the //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px;">Aboriginal Relics Act 1975 // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px;">.

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">N1, S1. D'Entrecasteaux Watering Place Historic Site, Catamaran, TAS ===

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and T31. The Waterhole, D'Entrecasteaux Watering Point, Recherche Bay
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The crew of the French expedition under the command of Bruni D'Entrecasteaux obtained water from a small creek here in 1793. D'Entrecasteaux Watering Place Historic Site [|43°34′S 146°53′E] >> "Under calm conditions the following morning both vessels were safely towed by invigorated oarsmen into the bay. They anchored in the northern sector, later termed the Port du Nord, or ‘little bay’, today the unimaginative Pig Sties Bay. They moored over 100 metres from the beach north of Bennetts Point; Recherche lay some 70 metres north of Espérance.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Registered by the Tasmanian National Trust//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is the site of the first botanical collecting in Tasmania by Bruni D'Entrecasteaux's 1792 expedition, and all the plants described then are still to be found in the Southport area, including the Tasmanian bluegum Eucalyptus globulus, the floral emblem of Tasmania.
 * In the autumn of 1792 a pair of storm-battered French ships, their crews weatherbeaten and tired, dropped grateful anchor in waters off Tasmania’s south-east coast.
 * The peaceful waterway was later named D’Entrecasteaux Channel and the kidney-shaped bay they chose for their rest and repair became known as **Recherche Bay.**
 * || [[image:http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/d6f418816bbeb47df4ecc7a97b0ffc6a?width=650 width="408" height="238" caption="D'Entrecasteaux memorial, Recherche Bay"]] ||  ||   || [[image:http://tasmania.australiaforeveryone.com.au/images/Recherche_and_Esperance.jpg width="380" height="241" caption="The two ships, La Recherche and L'Espérance"]] ||   ||
 * The historic place comprises the northern headland of Recherche Bay incorporating the camping and operational sites of the expedition (including the garden site, observatory, boat repair site and related work areas, and crew camping area). [[image:https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/bobbrownfoundation/pages/251/attachments/original/1409144161/recherche_esperance_1.jpg?1409144161 width="427" height="264" align="right" caption="Ian Hansen, The Lyluequonny People Farewell D'Entrecasteax's Ships"]]
 * Over the next 26, days the Bay saw much activity. The ships were careened, timber was cut for repairs and the making of charcoal.
 * The botanists Labillardire, Riche and Ventenat busily collected, catalogued and preserved hundreds of hitherto unknown flora and fauna including the Eucalyptus Globulus, Tasmanian Blue gum which later on became the state emblem.
 * Hydrographers Beautemps-Beaupr, Willaumez and others set of in the long boats to chart previously unknown parts of the coast. Their maps were used for generations by other mariners.
 * Rossel set up an observatory on what is now Bennett's Point and discovered Geo-magnetism of great significance to navigational science. An event commemorated by the unveiling of a plaque on the site by the CSIRO during a seminar held in Hobart in 1992.
 * [[image:https://fiftytoeswalkabout.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/recherche-bay.jpg?w=466&h=189&crop=1 align="left" caption="Recherche Bay"]]Gazing at this pristine landscape, Labillardière voiced the ethos of noble nature:
 * ‘We were filled with admiration at the sight of these ancient forests, in which the sound of the axe had never been heard.’
 * Turning his eyes towards the harbour, he exclaimed with exaggerated praise that ‘more than 100 vessels of the line might ride here with safety’.
 * D’Entrecasteaux felt equally emotional: ‘With every step, one encounters the beauties of unspoilt nature … trees reaching a very great height … are devoid of branches along the trunk, but crowned with an everlasting green foliage. Some of these trees seem as ancient as the world’.
 * Matthew Flinders paid him an unreserved compliment, when he praised the discovery of this harbour as ‘the most important discovery which has been made in [Tasmania] from the time of Tasman’.

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">N2, S2. George III Monument Historic Site, Southport, TAS === <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Historic early shipwreck in a very scenic area. Flora diverse and some rare species, notably EPACRIS STUARTII. > The resultant loss of life from this shipwreck means it still stands as Tasmania’s third worst maritime accident. None of the ship’s officers lost their lives, nor any soldiers. However 128 convicts, three children, the wife of a soldier and two crew members were drowned. >> //Near this place are interred the Remains of Many of the Sufferers// //who perished by the Wreck of the George the III, convict ship,////which Vessel struck on a sunken rock near the Actaeon reef// >> //On the night of the 12th April 1835// //upon which melancholy occasion 134 human beings were drowned// >> //This Tomb is Erected by the desire of His Excellency// //Colonel GEORGE ARTHUR, Lieut.-Governor// >> //to mark that sad event,// //and is placed on this spot by the Major THOMAS RYAN, 50th Regiment// >> //One of the Survivors on this Occasion//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The 14.4 hectare historic site is the site of a memorial to the convict ship George III which was wrecked on nearby rocks on its way to Port Arthur in 1835 with the loss of 133 lives. The memorial was erected on this site in 1839.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px;">On the evening of 12 March 1835 the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px;">George III // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px;">, a convict transportation vessel, enroute from Great Britain to the colony, struck a reef directly offshore from the conservation area. The ship quickly began to break up. Convicts were confined to the hold at gunpoint until the ship’s longboat was launched and taking its first load of occupants to the safety of the nearby shore.
 * In 1839 a monument, in the form of an inscribed tomb, was placed on Southport Bluff to record the event. The monument still stands and its existence is the chief reason for the proclamation of the surrounding historic site. The main inscription on the tomb reads:
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Southport Bluff, where the George III Historic Site and monument are located, is the only known locality for the endangered Tasmanian endemic heath species,Epacris stuartii (Keith 1996).

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">S3, Imlays Southport Whaling Station, Southport, TAS=== The Imlay's Southport Whaling Station site is important for its association with the nineteenth century Tasmanian whaling industry and for the good and relatively intact example of a tryworks area. Whaling was a significant early Tasmanian industry. The nature of the whaling grounds led to the development of bay whaling using shore stations. The Imlay's Southport Whaling Station site, from about 1838-43, is a good and relatively intact example of such a shore station associated with the whaling industry. In particular, the tryworks features are considered to be the best preserved remnants of this type of feature in Tasmania. (Criteria A4, B2 and D2
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wEqytH_MBiRyU8EjT4sMHGTHEXS8_a6882f05jYTjW6wP066WfhNewyi-c8REMjN_Q3AxU4UgMpVjr69-7yMVFfAebXdnDNV4msvbttIRDavbek3E-5vUN22KtOmu9wcIMGNKUGTb5yw3Yr7AFtPkSGB8E0jo5uB7Zq_jKQXCA17gr2W3qm-mce1RaykSYfWDEGneb7yL3rRHDIQIIkyYqQZLd16welnSXGoxpAsvgvEqBGtljdg8kiVEoqt8SWeMOEZpZN0xeByguY4SFTN4P0EBwZgzifS0t-8ts-nAAIL5DE2he-uo4A4-cB1fqcLvVanyeAOl73Mmgms3XH-DuDNk3tlENo1VOD-U3Wq7fBGFR77WGQkv1k8E5kA2LAz9tEydzeHWTdZnfJiGfhbWfG-osxvH2W3bq5OtYI_uJcaMlFgiBd7dObov1ier-JL5A-sjVaJKcHa7YO_CFdTJ8-hkmtlHks1N8kO9HZ5klqAZJ4paCD0wC0MP-dLG1xYlAAN6wqBZdEMGMY5PS2lkFnqQScQ5UroUIgvnF3juvG9uc5vHwyzPeR0rsmbeKI1AxuzPgxWRwktg711FfFt4eVAY0NSTyBKA8moPYFzyGM93XLSIg=w500-h329-no width="313" height="209" caption="Imlay shore-based whaling station"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZzWINRc9KDOi2w4Yi4F6o3WUTgbkx82SnqkmWFx7cRxHyLthDhpOGLRU4nm_uj55VSVGmMVyvi9ZK-_MUE-csm6OlPE-ak0AyfRoWj5NYomveO8br9tuZjrNRhl7mDkQ3TF7mC6UPlurXvZ8nIgAamtFkxbJTqxOKKZKLJJzN7N12UJ8YzOi_GtKyq0Ps7nizhOqbRE9VvfHTcL2DnvBzf97SrRgMya1sun4Eupj902EeYcquyoac1DbxL_BotUkswuSxAyCw5LB6NbS0nDfkrYE3k4WYgaIEQ8kflD8QCz4LqY5LHPp75rP2ztUcTyi6W-1rB3Dqp9c6y-jvgJRykHHt0y_w0VhMhCfohxOPQdqMJf63iAdpT3U42pVv_wZZgN9z5hQgHbTEMtc1DBT9XUsOD9vJ4XIpf6PK1t85JOAzxF8s8nOdSMfRqyah8_m4MlRumw7AetQgRT3aMJKchTTak7mhpBqru1tYlAbdZAbjKcx-DzKUhTVI8ryMlfKn7gnBE6aBhRI-j8S9c6jkmPlSyfpoN3xvcWNAAF1VZ4Q5j4dHI87g-ch9v1L172ZnW6x8jTZB-iZW-FHroi7ilJSXFYy-wib186qIYKTNvvrPbyEKA=w600-h410-no width="302" height="209" caption="'Cutting in', 1848, by William Duke" link="@http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Whaling.htm"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7GOgPpVnf5zZj4jFw_-9PoTrgP89mB4K8Ou3u5OiaEIsWRqxefrMNNXrutjBowzbeBZaRDByXKl-3xchz_CnGOUq5leOhIerRandyiz1tKQUTyMaY9_7VOcsMrvfuNErAhJ4Futk2PjbyBxcvdfi4rwkhDDiyOn2PjJQfWmpdXgM_T6ubclNWris2-tteEC0udH9xjp6CNrLaQ85IPxS1Z003cYarRP649wP1FfELGgDSwTDER8wXRWiL5JPJMLQ3COCx7pq88TCsSiOM3s7M-h6WlZRB3S96EdzLzL7YB1NKF3pe1hFPa24czuaHjFHR8jpHp3V4J_UWSgfMGMGkpCsB2BL0dHWa0bB50glIkRP5uKxq9FaEzefC5fk_rtbJvtmv3-MLIg9O4iqRs4icBXezJm6AjtLa3XYqTOTIjSytuP8ZswIa_-PVBqdmiZAz14cCEljX3lQqZme9-EYwCuBGYN5SG7eQPtrnfoBWfK5kSnZR3MegvKa1Svxj069mevXFeOefJCRr7eXhOq4iErndE0cF1F9ntm9EM0cZo4SKxvu4qFmdFlpS-Qf2cMlvIQ1BW0K8WZiTGYjj26bzTo7C4EKd2vOG0R8ccH9AOTsoVC-5Q=w247-h204-no width="239" height="199" caption="Village Settlement, Southport"]][[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6w-ybf512pDL53M6RXicv4gweDF8KwEUiAw-jfPWYpcTMNBJ056Jklh2WwSjlIxrfm3CzgENhEsxmInHBhtsTBfpq75y9WfC_KA_u0SZ6ln_xYZ9dNI3ZBb3B8cCSSknYKWnIdqIsK44Ewdb5WOCrrc4tbeJXu3ladw_cVvivsFX-WhOcZY1gD9gW54dGBy1TiMaIgl-gkPa5T5S3Ek58UFSXCvc-QiTbTSXOmhvEfxGQNEx-Fz10pucfF7gcoLn1VqWeoPxgKZwU-1m3y5rQIpZGY2BRbhJ6WwvhdNGcg_SsUo4S1S62I74BghpHKxGWhGW_anWndn9-ste1HwHvLEeutytFbTQuTsXD1IgzmmjHnzyQmYfmKyiaq9LrIvKQJ2EwV2xfSgsLkV5jXz9rV7c2ir5rReBT9r7f3EwQzyyZ9U2JYMalQdmjShCJS7y3fDaHO_EY5_PA1OGlYqClQJm1kVrEcyEMR9_zTFlUclGBuWNoMJ43tAC6c5A4S0r6-IaornIrybZBw1ZgjiNNL6c5iSrPx3iT4_vFz67zaV4Vyo0InXiJV4i68y-OfCtdnVrYt10-6jqnvtEI5VCLTAP_j0F_Fga7MECKZkcsJg3uphk0Q=w600-h395-no width="293" height="203" caption="Far South Narrows painting "]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2gbUhDpGOt2kgIikWABcmnjRpXcvpDdrGX3OMDSonPewi8yWSURlrVhVTS_k30YGLobwPWq3d2b4o1FHwwwIwbO3jZ823aG9gvPkZDXz1Y_jMXExNI7ZC__IkvDmckKW0z6tbr_uKw8W8Kb0wIrA2rspRJhcFv0-ouM0xeQeRvgV6VtlpnLme-BaeCszgGk34qt-K8X7c6m-zIIKbuWIpgprEHYvsLgkVXqxgeMwb1OX-zBA8YxWoNaR4TooyiRJkLwT1GFKnbcsTc-9e5jAdukrieSG4b1qzpw2eGXPJGC15l358bo5uzyeWFcv9dum4dE2W7TIM1GACLWxi18U2eDx_8u9CGeiT8vIzJUO8hq5237AoRIQKGXsy4eHD7UKtCPrI63Vbef9Q2QGzateiljJXM2tmAzQ1FDLUvrzhIWUQvkAVCcxO_1IIFcGFWY7YBygkB2ZNv3pBuj7SJlOQ0F_yL1hgNiJingXjX2BAcmEH74a-VoHyIwa98VnlVAW8fXO8KSqTdX1LDZLhNxKjwK-Dgk6lV1f77OOQI_6VXU9xvN7hPEE97UB5MokF78PyCeWuEes7arPbbqBmdBuW-NInBUofod7rLPuSMq-qBY4Sv77wg=w264-h169-no width="306" height="199" caption="whaleboat"]] ||
 * The typical shore-based station consisted of a crude camp and on-shore processing facilities which employed 20–30 men during the winter months when whales were plentiful. It was a hazardous and physically demanding occupation which could earn the men substantial rewards in a good season, but just as easily leave them near broke in a bad one. Under the 'lay' system they were paid a fixed proportion of the season's catch, providing an incentive for hard work.
 * By the 1840s there was a rapid decline in whale numbers visiting Tasmanian shores. Together with changing consumer demands and economic pressures, this led to a shift away from shore-based whaling to pelagic (deep sea) whaling.
 * By the late 1870s and 1880s the Tasmanian whaling industry was in decline due to the indiscriminate killing of whale stocks, a lack of sustained investment by local entrepreneurs, as well as external factors such as economic depressions, falling oil prices and the decline of Hobart as a major port. The last Tasmanian-based whaling voyage was completed with the return to Hobart of the Helen on February 22 1900.
 * Register of the National Estate, Indicative place

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T30. Site of Bay Whaler's Fry Pots, Catamaran Point, Recherche Bay
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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Registered by the Tasmanian National Trust//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Between the late 1830s and early 1840s, four shore-based whaling stations operated in the bays immediately to the north of Southport Bluff. The remains of three of these stations have been identified.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Captain William Fisher was born in Hobart 1813, son of an emancipated convict. He soon acquired the brig Calypso (157 tons) & pursued whaling and other interests, not always within the law.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An 1869 news report claimed he had 12,000 antiscorbutic cabbages growing.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He is remembered by Fisher‘s Point at the southern end of Recherche Bay (where the road ends) marked by a life sized bronze whale sculpture nearby.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/k1ojVVPzRwKOg_uGLgqqsd_6GtWetsemTF0ih9wtKJFb4FILexxmw1shDlexTFpgnngzg0g7eVJdr6PyYuQZyNKi8o0j1scME9BKi3bjXk6MKETR70ckIXLX-RHSp63DGTHbPDnkU6xY2G8WmDeCRVnAHMDYlXOx4dcS2Wxpqiou1Y8wqDivESKOEINifil-6rkxhOR3_Tfqyr-GNQjufG2l7IPXc98lWjd-YaGb6gGp3XrpihYrPO4edrbSbU3HDEs3kpBGtaMOI4ScCKSkRK70IJZsSD98-rcM320kK1FpqIr7Dr0gsIOpIFoRT8Su1n6DfHE59eaIzwfPydWtS-takW2niFvPgs9LF5m44yfCsCgmQmBJj9l0eeYof7mJHQqoVZexMc-vySKkAy0lujz11C15iU-MDLdMibee2-ad-_VN3ocU6P2Z4btwGktkNVSshZKSw58mmp5ZpMKEqO87UbkUajAYaItkQrW4EarkJnXc0jQIuDmMNntHbUjw8z0ppJwoE7MF6balmspR-3fuGQPCuRky36Xu982alI-y3-IS1i_FxwTzv-UAf96LDDc_6puZwF06dIs6BKk1XAWwQEtQHzkm=w640-h427-no width="433" height="291" caption=" Life sized bronze whale sculpture, Catamaran TAS"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/I_iHaM3IxvPgzX_e4kiNWChmReCPidiBIgR6tOBdqBK8IplaNQ0brly9SEQLnIXEwD_cNI5YnJazIiO8ySy8oZihMX27_S8csx9a_M6J-003YVnSRHvpa_kG8FJTi2xCcFv3piiwQwtYHre8YwF42yM5eoW6RqUg_czl1VeMHfYYshiWoZ2V5TLPfrWZmX1qaUsKDqCjwKnCVe6delZuGP6cxkjtgRxMksNCps6pzEcYJjchNpB1fzL9EdWIHc9PLksbltkpnUZK5HxAk8nc4yDJCtTxfxD4yhDaLqN9lMvGGj_65Rrm7Y1z_U42M_UrU6zdSf95baXlf0BLoPBXs6-L7w9YJDLcMZK8GrMk-r2suAx-FjzKpNc2EoQ5Cr5LBAELEyDv9lhWrCM4uGVvt_6LAbBY4cMllcgclUlkrg1027Ngy-EppnFp0BbkJwPMxbihP1lzRTEr6fQHhvKWY07Ajg9OOWRl2WgoO-hpLEIWbawRIaYpDdMNPB462-FRXeL4MPvOvyrTvx3u40ty1xJV25Qe9Uv5kwLquXiBXhHOn1s0qC57bWOt3U3sOfVhlc_ncQEqxY2aErxevWsKodN6TkNZACgX=w902-h509-no width="525" height="298"]] ||

===S4. North East Peninsula of Recherche Bay Lune Bay, TAS, Australia=== <span style="font-family: 'normal Arial',Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;"> The north east peninsula of Recherche Bay has an important association with the French scientific and exploratory expedition of Rear Admiral Bruni D’Entrecasteaux. It stopped at Recherche Bay in 1792 and in 1793 for about seven weeks in total.
 * The relatively extensive, well-documented encounters on the coast of the north east peninsula of Recherche Bay, compared to those in other places and involving other expeditions, between the expedition members and the Tasmanian Aborigines, provided a very early opportunity for meetings and mutual observation.
 * The recordings, from the French perspective, of these encounters, are important observations of the lives of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. The French also camped ashore on the north east peninsula (in 1792), made scientific observations, collected numerous specimens of flora and fauna, and established a vegetable garden (possibly one of several in the wider area intended, unusually, for the economic benefit of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people).

In particular, the place is associated, through Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardiere’s plant collection, with the very important, first, illustrated, general publication in 1804-06 of Australian plants. Also early French records created here of Tasmanian Aboriginal culture are the best records of Tasmanian Aboriginal society before European settlement and are major contributions to the knowledge of Tasmanian Aboriginal life and society before European settlement.
 * (<span style="background-image: url(">[|Indicative Place] ) on the Register of the National Estate

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Recherche Bay
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A quiet, idyllic bay in the far south of Tasmania beyond the Huon Valley.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The original inhabitants of this area were the Aboriginal people known as the Lyluequonny. Their first encounter with Europeans was with the French, an amicable meeting which could be considered a ‘cultural exchange’. The French expeditions were focused on the scientific study of native flora, fauna, geology and the waterways of Van Diemen’s Land.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Recherche Bay itself, sheltered from the wildest weather, provided some safe harbour for the influx of early settlers, sealers and convicts. Early industries based initially on coal-mining and whaling became established.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Coal was sent to Hobart and the oil produced from whales helped the emerging colony with lighting, cooking and the manufacture of soaps and corsets. The bronze whale sculpture that presently sits at Adams Point pays homage to this history.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With such an intense boating industry, and with early access to this area only possible by sea, there was demand for ship-building and local timber-milling was established.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the features of this somewhat sheltered coastline was that tall forest eucalypts grew close to the shore, making for convenient, though still dangerous, harvesting. Timber was not only required for the local collieries and boat building, but for housing and domestic needs.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A number of mills were established around the bay over time, with one mill at Cockle Creek run by women during World War II. Tram tracks spread out into the bush to retrieve logs from the hinterland.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Recherche Bay during the early part of the 20th century, it appears that the men fished, farmed, worked the mines, the timber mills & were grateful for road making work when it was offered. Some 3000 people lived in the area at the time.

Recherche Bay is a natural area in the south-eastern corner of Tasmania. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: top;">From a scientific perspective, the northern peninsula of Recherche Bay was the site, in 1792, of the first deliberate scientific experiment in Australia. This was a geomagnetic measurement undertaken by French naval officer Elisabeth Paul Edouard de Rossel, showing that goemagneticism varied with latitude. It was an experiment of international significance.
 * The terrestrial area is dominated by mixed aged tall and dry Eucalyptus obliqua forest with a history of forest harvesting. Beneath the variable E. obliqua canopy, the understorey consists of a sedge and shrub layer and is made up of species typical of the surrounding area.
 * The ground layer consists mainly of cutting grass (Gahnia grandis) and bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) whilst the shrub layer contains species such as prickly moses (Acacia verticillata) and silver banksia (B. marginata). Parts of the area include reasonably extensive coastal wetlands dominated by sedges and other plants.
 * [[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Antoine-Raymond-Joseph_Bruny_d%E2%80%99Entrecasteaux.jpg width="218" height="249" caption="Bruni d'Entrecasteaux" link="@https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Bruni_d%27Entrecasteaux"]] || [[image:http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/images/Aboriginal%20life.jpg caption="external image Aboriginal%20life.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Encastreaux.jpg/220px-Encastreaux.jpg caption="D'Encastreaux Portrait in "Voyage to Australia and the Pacific 1791–1793"" link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Encastreaux.jpg"]] || [[image:http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/images/Aboriginal%20life%202.jpg caption="Aboriginal people fishing, as depicted by French explorers in 1800 (ALMFA, SLT)"]] ||
 * In 1792 D`Entrecasteaux`s expedition sailed up the channel, now bearing his name, charting the coastline & naming features.
 * He named the large bay at the top of the channel, North West Bay. The expedition anchored there to collect fresh water. Many aborigines were observed in the area.
 * The Tasmanian Aboriginal community has a strong association with the place that is of outstanding significance to the nation because Recherche Bay is associated with the best documentary evidence of Aboriginal culture before European settlement.

People, who by their association with the place, cause the place to have national heritage value, are two members of the 1792 and 1793 French expedition –Labillardiere, botanist, and Rossel, in modern terms, a ‘geoscientist’.
 * There are a three small settlements on Recherche Bay **Catamaran**, **Recherche Bay** and **Cockle Creek.** These are the most southern communities in Australia.
 * A signpost at Cockle Creek marks the most southerly point in Australia accessible by motor vehicle.
 * The southern tip of Tasmania, Australia s southern extremity, which marks the beginning of the South West Walk, is just an hour s walk away.
 * Where is it?: 80 km south of Southport.

The bay was the first landing place of French explorer Bruny D'Entrecasteaux who came ashore here for water and stayed for a number of weeks in 1792 to rest his crew and complete maintenance on his ships
 * Coal found on North Point by D Entrecasteaux was mined by a team of 43 convicts from 1841 to 1848.
 * Mining was abandoned because of seepage in its two shafts due to the mine being so close to sea level.
 * National Heritage ListRecord #105665

S5. Pedra Branca Island, Southport Tasmania
Statement of Significance: Rare phosphate minerals are found on Pedra Branca.
 * Pedra Branca lies in the Southern Ocean some 26 kilometres south-south east of South East Cape, close to Eddystone Rock. It is only 100m by 270m and reaches a height of 52 metres.
 * The island rises abruptly from the ocean and is virtually devoid of vegetation. Many seabirds nest and roost on the island, covering the rocks with guano.
 * These minerals occur as cavity fills and cement in sandstone and dolerite rock, and also in phosphate flowstone.
 * The former probably formed as a result of interaction between the seabird guano and the bedrock. The minerals are considered to be outstanding nationally.
 * The island also has outstanding examples of two geomorphological features providing information on the last glacial period: cemented breccia cones and a well-developed benched shore platform.

Pedra Branca is the only known habitat for the endemic Pedra Branca skink, NIVEOSCINCUS PALFREYMANI, which is nationally listed as vulnerable and which lives among rock cavities near bird nesting sites. Indigenous values probably exist on Pedra Branca. As yet these have not been identified, documented or assessed for national estate significance by the Commission.
 * The island is also an important nesting site for the Australasian gannet, MORUS SERRATOR, and for the shy or white capped albatross, DIOMEDEA CAUTA. The latter is listed as vulnerable in Tasmania and the Pedra Branca colony is one of only three in Australia.
 * The colony of the former on Pedra Branca is the third largest in Australia and is the subject of a national long term monitoring program.
 * Pedra Branca is also one of the larger seal haul out sites in Tasmania, with three species of seal, the Australian fur seal (ARCTOCEPHALUS PUSILLUS DORIFERUS), the New Zealand fur seal (ARCTOCEPHALUS FORSTERI) and occasionally the SubAntarctic fur seal (ARCTOCEPHALUS TROPICALIS) using it.
 * Register of the National Estate #100228

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">N6, S6. Southport Lagoon Wildlife Sanctuary, Lune River, TAS === <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px;">Lying approximately 80km south of Hobart the 4,280 hectare Southport Lagoon Conservation Area possesses a wide diversity of significant natural, cultural and recreational values. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Southport Lagoon Wildlife Sanctuary exhibits an unusual complex of forest, heath and sedgeland communities, and is in a relatively undisturbed state.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The area combines a rich history with a unique natural heritage. The area is the type locality for a large number of Tasmania’s unique native plants.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Messmate (EUCALYPTUS OBLIQUA) forests that cover much of the land area of the Sanctuary have representative significance, and are also significant in that they extend to coastal sand dunes and rocky shores. This is highly unusual at the present time, although it was a common phenomenon in the past.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The heathland communities in the Sanctuary are particularly rich in species which are no longer found in other coastal regions. The Sanctuary provides important waterbird habitat and breeding ground for a large number of bird species, and is the only known location for a Tasmanian endemic heath species, EPACRIS STUARTII, considered vulnerable at both State and national levels.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Sanctuary also provides protection for several plant species which have a restricted distribution in Tasmania: WESTRINGIA BREVIFOLIA, exocarpus SYRTICOLA, and CYATHODES ABIETINA. The latter two species are endemic to Tasmania. Southport Lagoon area was the collection site for the 1792 D'Entrecasteaux Expedition, and the area is therefore a botanical, zoological, geological and anthropological type locality for many Tasmanian specimens, and is an important scientific reference area.

===S7. Sterile Island, Catamaran, TAS=== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Area: 3.68 hectares Status: Game Reserve <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Natural Values Sometimes known as Little Actaeon Island, Sterile Island supports breeding populations of little penguins (500 pairs), Pacific gulls (1 pair) and sooty oystercatchers (1 pair). Forest ravens visit the island. Small numbers of metallic skinks occur. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The island is comprised entirely of cobbles with a levee-like rim, presumably formed by storm waves and a central depression. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">This is considered to be representative and outstanding for Tasmania (Dixon 1996). The centre of the island is dominated by Poa poiformis, which is surrounded by a strip of shrubs, mainly Olearia phlogopappa. There is an outer zone dominated by Senecio sp which abuts the stony beach. Creeping mats of Tetragonia implexicoma occur on the beach. Cultural Values There is a stone arrangement on the island. (Brown 1986). || Sterile Island is a 3.68 ha island game reserve in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the Actaeon Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, at the southern entrance to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the mainland.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ozk0n2usIeQAwALJlZWwIM_gsW8hNPm6FFetWYqukBYB9Zu0aHE5cdCyRCLnDx44cSZdS4Q3tIDruYuobYuhwz9yMZqtsDHubVKRfY1M2wPvZwrlSQgJsmYbEqNq6Z0PkmGu4RSdeaw5d7SV8CRDr4E42ar5oqM_HezAwdcvB_KtcBnNdCOClTH2js9J_bdCM9MPb-GQaGIR1soyzrj1CjlshIvyM_CxUOEt7SkyasP5VYz3B9-I3W58y1kS57u2tdsf94xPwhoZEm2Ai1cKgUksjrg-jA68ikdeGfyOj3hDS4DmYeDZI9YdmMwreCSHqxU4MszDxz1wOZufi_I7hBoGU4EX0y65J9eX2RcUd4Tle2bevLKFSVrFm1u0Hh3WUd9G_s6TnglHvsezS153SGAmhQxIxIXZx3_NW4AeBHwaJv1knE0LrfpfTuD3xP4Qln9i9HD-dwEsGj8SjJUPnqa4HbxULQ1Ky15bo_gsoLWgR5fKr766Q_RfupHJ-7aAQl-SALyVf9MPAsCILVjWPxit5h9hcR_ceOSbwWMMDFPqoP6utweaDQ4phGMZiYQFnj8j9tlN88gFYpDk1CfPXaXwDqLOTY-cKQZPE4WlK3TA-HZDEA=w240-h180-no width="253" height="192" caption="Pelican Island, Southport, TAS"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cjhVpnsUAe2RVUBDRN8dtKDTM2FASJk8KIiYRCXTExQX1b6QCp45lgaew7CyYf3JI4NRCQN_34Kx_PeC2r1t5Q6DDEU_w1Q0WvhxtTCS54uOSJyn2rTfwzc4Itipf7uzFyzFDWcZnRABmxV09xiil6ArKNc23gzBn0xGjzvprdJKsopUgIJfjc5u6XXcRpq4K7EgBBfA2fLQRmD2N_LGYRgvan_OoNKZlrwEW1lVAW2WOjaVu94XcST1--9w7elbAv2AU3m2PAdd6TMX0GDvi6tzYEQ2KdI_U_A6EcnE2SyHxAnAjZ1C7_BG-nby1D3ZxuADPmeCHd0Hrnx4xA2vQ0YDkkkj3YMdHQxdtxkkbFguznb2uxDl9jTAdv99vW83p24-qeBh3IJ6Qo_wQHQwRwoPMy_AbYGiJUAe6GPCJ6oay9NtiuQ5ZVgtIn1MJxHMHc85EXNPO56NDgMovOsgQVs0lQDr2adiYhVlXyvbHPU0qut7ddVUrlCh3OgcED7M7vwCry8TuPIGHWAnStwMqXiKRzmi3yzWNZzh9PxbvDPI43RMo4C6DYBKpDxFFMi9tIuZhsHifVulFya3UV_pCSAPtApJ02e-8HZaFvWe4fpBQRly4A=w800-h410-no width="355" height="187" caption="Map showing Sterile Island, Centre right" link="@https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cjhVpnsUAe2RVUBDRN8dtKDTM2FASJk8KIiYRCXTExQX1b6QCp45lgaew7CyYf3JI4NRCQN_34Kx_PeC2r1t5Q6DDEU_w1Q0WvhxtTCS54uOSJyn2rTfwzc4Itipf7uzFyzFDWcZnRABmxV09xiil6ArKNc23gzBn0xGjzvprdJKsopUgIJfjc5u6XXcRpq4K7EgBBfA2fLQRmD2N_LGYRgvan_OoNKZlrwEW1lVAW2WOjaVu94XcST1--9w7elbAv2AU3m2PAdd6TMX0GDvi6tzYEQ2KdI_U_A6EcnE2SyHxAnAjZ1C7_BG-nby1D3ZxuADPmeCHd0Hrnx4xA2vQ0YDkkkj3YMdHQxdtxkkbFguznb2uxDl9jTAdv99vW83p24-qeBh3IJ6Qo_wQHQwRwoPMy_AbYGiJUAe6GPCJ6oay9NtiuQ5ZVgtIn1MJxHMHc85EXNPO56NDgMovOsgQVs0lQDr2adiYhVlXyvbHPU0qut7ddVUrlCh3OgcED7M7vwCry8TuPIGHWAnStwMqXiKRzmi3yzWNZzh9PxbvDPI43RMo4C6DYBKpDxFFMi9tIuZhsHifVulFya3UV_pCSAPtApJ02e-8HZaFvWe4fpBQRly4A=w800-h410-no"]] ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Location: 43°33′S, 146°59′E
 * Island consisting entirely of cobbles, with a levee-like rim (presumably formed by storm waves) and central depression (i.e. rim is the highest part of island). An unusual feature and only one other comparable feature is known in Tasmania. (Criteria: A.2, D.1)
 * ([|Indicative Place]) Register of the National Estate

Southport Local Heritage
5 Records Found

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">S8, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">T25. Convict Farm, blue gum avenue, graveyard, Lady Bay Road, Southport === >
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Registered by the Tasmanian National Trust//
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9DHCED25k5JP_lcmzNfv7bdRzH7vc0W7qWKe_2d21ZLlFZErsMjkeLm6bxDXQyIt8nuGfolYuKzElx797q5Ffz-iGoeADFjV6Jpi4xtK--S2Bui2AbtPcbBu1J1ekEKF8UA2fsWMMEC4CpKQUqEj8YoZeSmofPI43_wJK2ejYuOTFjG__E4JIBul8h1QyanZ3RanU1inC2TZNlgvL8bbYmaUtlOMg_zwcqn7eXER44JwnAkshHK9PMhyVF3cfsXBdYXwv7OEP6JP1XWT-nMYoal5zAaGaDzh2gaWzkK_2_ZN2nEgVrLLqOueTQmBW3J9DxB-Wp6TN3MDy7RMGMvu66rEKc2sNGexngZSPoTCWgznlGsOZX-3dyaEnYb8ShpayGvkv4bgUnUyr_bgkI0jqaMOE1bIa9JV12nZ4dFfF4vK7R1FHsnpqa9OagzobQ5VlkK5MWujUthdVQoznpfSSA3cx8OWwlaqFaBRiCZf2YI61KjcFVSPelyNQvaR-eseyGe-ZX8PPiVzaOeachK7dqNYGCl9kpO5rTiUPZ0lEORlwybOqwpSIgr4-v_DAiTMWL4_7vKzDmiRXOoOlkHdaoziVhcd9xuB=w1253-h601-no width="722" height="352" caption="Streetview_Convict Farm, blue gum avenue, graveyard, Lady Bay Road, Southport"]] ||

S9. La Haies Botanic Garden, Adjacent to Coal Pit Bight, Recherche Bay, Southport
The north east peninsula of Recherche Bay has an important association with the French scientific and exploratory expedition of Rear Admiral Bruni D’Entrecasteaux. <span style="color: #660066; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> Just over two hundred years ago, a French scientific expedition landed on the southern coast of Tasmania. They collected specimens, conducted experiments and even planted a garden.
 * It stopped at Recherche Bay in 1792 and in 1793 for about seven weeks in total. The relatively extensive, well-documented encounters on the coast of the north east peninsula of Recherche Bay, compared to those in other places and involving other expeditions, between the expedition members and the Tasmanian Aborigines, provided a very early opportunity for meetings and mutual observation.
 * The recordings, from the French perspective, of these encounters, are important observations of the lives of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. The French also camped ashore on the north east peninsula (in 1792), made scientific observations, collected numerous specimens of flora and fauna, and established a vegetable garden (possibly one of several in the wider area intended, unusually, for the economic benefit of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people).
 * Remarkably, the site of their work still exists, but it’s never been archeologically explored.
 * Now the private landowners have sought permission to clear fell the surrounding forest, and it’s triggered a war over the fate of what could be one of the most significant sites in Australia’s science history.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Arriving in April 1792, the landing in this part of Van Diemen's Land was the result of an accident. Following a violent storm, the French vessels mistook what was later named Recherche Bay for Adventure Bay, a safe harbour observed by Tasman, as a place to recuperate.
 * An extended search for La Perouse followed and took them to New Caledonia, the Admiralty Islands, the Solomons, Bougainville and around New Guinea to the Moluccas. From there they sailed down the west coast of the Australian mainland and around the Great Australian Bight, stopping for repairs at St Francis Isle, before limping back to Recherche Bay in 1793 to repair the //Esperance// and to replenish water and other supplies.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Here they returned to the garden planted by Felix Lahaie in May 1792. It was the practice of European crews to plant gardens in destinations they visited to provide sustenance for other maritime adventurers. However, the French were also under instructions to establish European plants for the benefit of Indigenous people – a gift from the French people to the natives of the new land. D’Entrecasteaux was interested in the fate of garden and, to judge from his journal, Delahaye returned for another inspection:
 * ‘M. La Haye inspected it with more care than on the first occasion; he found a few chicory plants, cabbages, sorrel, radishes, cress and a few potatoes had grown, but had only produced the first two seminal leaves.’
 * Delahaye now blamed the lack of success on ‘the seeds having been sown in too advanced a season’.
 * Labillardière blamed the lack of water and expressed surprise that at least some cress had not been planted closer to a nearby stream.
 * Whatever the explanation for the garden’s failure, apart from Bligh’s incipient orchard, this was the first attempt to cultivate vegetables in Tasmania. As it is well documented and located on a chart, it is important to establish the credentials of the feature discovered early in 2003.

Lady Jane Franklin explored the peninsula in 1838 and endeavoured to locate Lahaie’s garden. In 1922, following a bushfire, Herbert Smith and Clive Lord found a small cultivated area surrounded by a trench which they interpreted as the French garden. Lord is said to have planted pine trees at each corner to mark the spot.
 * Accompanied by botanist Ronald Campbell Gunn and the ornithologist John Gould she found an entrenched site of what appeared to be a garden to the north of the garden shown on the French chart. Gould and Gunn also duplicated the collections of specimens made by the French.
 * The site of the French garden lies on the northern side of the southern fire corridor, and is covered by eucalypts perhaps 100 years old.
 * It seems certain the French would not have chosen a garden site in an area covered by gum trees.
 * Finally, there is an engraving (after Piron) of French sailors and aborigines together, in which a good deal of artistic license has been applied, but it seems likely the setting is on the shore near Blackswan Lagoon. In the middle ground is an isolated manfern, such as only happens after fire has removed the forest.

The 1792 garden...investigated by the Far South Historical Society and identified by Bob Graham and Helen Gee in 2003…had ‘captured the public’s imagination.
 * ‘Formed’ in traditional symmetrical shape and measuring approximately 9 x 7 metres and divided into four sections, its inner and outer lines are edged by stones, some of which may have been quarried from a nearby outcrop.
 * It contains what appear to be two plinths, which may have been used as platforms for barrels containing water from the nearby creek.
 * The crops sown included cereal grains, chicory, mustard, endive, lentil, radish, cress, sorrel cabbage and potato.
 * Trees were also planted, probably nearby.’

(The ABC) approached the owners of this land, (and) the archaeologist of the Forest Practices Board and the Premier of Tasmania, Jim Bacon who is also the Minister responsible for heritage. None of them were prepared to talk to (the ABC) on camera.
 * But the issue won’t be going away. Tasmanian Greens Senator, Bob Brown feels so strongly about this cause, he’s prepared to be part of a human shield for the peninsula.
 * Senator Bob Brown: I’ll be there on the road in front of the first bulldozers and the chainsaws if they arrive. You can do no less.



"This was the first visit to the French Garden site for all of us. So, map in hand, we donned life-jackets and set off from Catamaran, past a cluster of beautiful lichen-covered dolerite rocks, across the waters towards the French Garden at Coal Pit Bight. After the location, in early 2003, of what many consider to be the French garden, the Group escalated their media campaign and began to lobby State and Commonwealth Ministers and French consular officials, with a view to preserving the peninsula.
 * The trip across took about 20 minutes under an overcast sky, however, the men’s boating and weather-watching skills enabled us to navigate the floating seaweed and moor the boat safely. A short walk along the beach led us to the entrance to the site, where we set off inland through treed bushland to find the French Garden."
 * Over the next three years this campaign escalated considerably with a number of demonstrations and national media coverage.
 * While the campaign raised the profile of Recherche Bay in the public’s consciousness, it also proved to be very hurtful and disturbing for the Vernon family.
 * In early 2006, businessman and philanthropist Dick Smith, at the urging of Senator Bob Brown, made a very generous donation and loan to the Tasmanian Land Conservancy. This, together with financial support from the Tasmanian Government, led to the Vernons reluctantly agreeing to sell their property to the Conservancy in March 2006.
 * In early 2006, businessman and philanthropist Dick Smith, at the urging of Senator Bob Brown, made a very generous donation and loan to the Tasmanian Land Conservancy. This, together with financial support from the Tasmanian Government, led to the Vernons reluctantly agreeing to sell their property to the Conservancy in March 2006.
 * In early 2006, businessman and philanthropist Dick Smith, at the urging of Senator Bob Brown, made a very generous donation and loan to the Tasmanian Land Conservancy. This, together with financial support from the Tasmanian Government, led to the Vernons reluctantly agreeing to sell their property to the Conservancy in March 2006.

"Although by dry stone wall construction standards, the French Garden wall is extremely modest, nothing could detract from the privileged feeling of being so close to the southernmost tip of Tasmania and treading in a place where such a simple and historically important dry stone structure was constructed more than 200 years ago. The historic heritage of the NE Peninsula include: The locations of these activities can be approximately inferred from historic documents
 * Today, thanks to the dedication of a group of concerned conservationists, the site is protected and, due to recent archaeological work, cleared and easy to locate.
 * On 8 February 2006, the ABC news announced that: ‘The historic site of early French exploration of Australia at Recherche Bay in Tasmania's south is to be saved from logging.
 * More than $2 million has been raised to buy the land. The area, which hosted important scientific research and the first meeting between French explorers and Aborigines, was to be logged this year.
 * However, due to donations from entrepreneur Dick Smith, conservationists and a newly announced State government contribution of almost $400,000, a deal has been brokered to buy the land from the private owners’.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Z4W0BAdwIdcvhMV4yHG9HDD02--fCAr0gNQegYhEPxlUbyQxzmRGUHGRbjn9_kC19Tx-CNKoAkipFlwVDEaNfgMeJtbgOghOhcFdVsQ9V2vs8BxZxeAmTysvd8nejp01ekLEkvyOEATpFoVPgfZSvfYEgTdFh39u92lK6pGGuDzj9mWkrjsrUgc25vIM7C31LdeGDRcalFKUr4qRvyrPly1WTu4dWRqzEDYhTxvTwRtR9Rd35toGmGBuru6GQ-gpJ6cxWya7jaBHvt0ifROSB9X0HK4jmWI8WCnZlnDPFwN3qiJ_adG6A0YkkBVIBESiCAJAjMbKBsvMCleR9vckl0JtFrxau65L7qf1BkQAC6FqvIiokx1kksVkLvUbma-81WQ1HK0dWtboinGYXBiWJ5hm0lwuu2lkEs0ygX5Tq1wvH5KHrPcOKf4HYDDa9ECCMPl92e99l1iO3ZlscZyg9lqz72tW9nXWC8k-CiaCP_fUiR9AJjAnBiTL5SDNfJYKZm94LXref1Zm-V2gtDHtDFpFFI_p0nvjcgc5dAYzMzapKmVy4vHsIsRNdTuL6GvKnUdAVatDb4-f3BGqWj7UKLCwkd--e_krWEUIJ7VKd6Z6h1mGEg=w577-h545-no align="left" caption="The French Garden at Recherche Bay, Tasmania, THE FLAG STONE, ISSUE NO. 9" link="@http://dswaa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Issue-No.-9-Feb-2007.pdf"]]The Recherche Bay garden was to be saved! The north-east peninsula of Recherche Bay and the French Garden area are now both safe from logging and protected for future generations, thanks to the generous support of philanthropist Dick Smith, the ongoing work of the TLC and to generous donations from hundreds of individuals who havecontributed to the public fundraising campaign.
 * Sites of 1792 and 1793 French activities. These include the 1792 observatory, forges and associated charcoal kilns near the observatory, a repair yard near the observatory, a linen-washing area,
 * Lahaie's 1792 garden as mapped by Beautemps-Beaupre,
 * a possible second garden reported by Lt La Motte du Portail and perhaps revisited by Jane Franklin in 1838, other vegetable plantings throughout the woods,
 * a number of campsites accommodating about 220 expeditioners,
 * a number of exploration tracks traversing the peninsula,
 * locations where various botanical specimens were collected,
 * 1793 meeting places with Aborigines between the Observatory and Southport Lagoon.
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #10173

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">S10, S12. Observatory, Bennetts Point, Recherche Bay, Southport
Statement of Significance: The Observatory is of historic cultural heritage significance for its historical associations with the DEntrecasteaux expedition, European exploration of Tasmania and the meeting of Europeans and Aborigines. The Observatory is of cultural heritage significance as it is a rare site of 18th century French scientific observations. The Observatory is of historic heritage significance as it is able to demonstrate a high degree of technical achievement through the world breakthrough in the science of geomagnetism which advanced global navigation. The Observatory is of historic heritage significance as it is able to demonstrate an association with the DEntrecasteaux Expedition.

The Observatory has the potential to yield important information, of an archaeological nature, that may contribute to a greater understanding of Tasmania`s history.
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #10172

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">S11, T24. The Big House, Huon Highway, Southport (Jetty House)
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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Jetty House (1876) (Joseph Graves) Registered
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Website: <span style="background-image: url(">@http://www.southportjettyhouse.com/ and also <span style="background-image: url(">@https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/1653374
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Jetty House is an historic home situated by the bay in tiny Southport, south of Hobart. Travelling time is a 90-minute drive from the capital.

> They have been operating as a popular traditional B&B for 16 years. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> > It is now a comfortable, rambling home set in lovely gardens next to a beautiful white sand beach.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jetty House has six standard rooms with three bathrooms, accommodating up to 12 guests.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Facilities include two separate lounges with open fireplaces and a selection of games and books as well as wide shady verandas and a barbecue shelter.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The house is set in two and a half acres of lush gardens. Settlement Creek runs through the grounds and the property is located opposite Southport Beach
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Built by Joseph Graves who started the steam-driven timber mill in Southport (a technophile- up until then timber was milled by convicts in pits)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Jetty House has 7 rooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 lounge areas, a well-equipped kitchen with full-sized stove, dishwasher and coffee machine.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Outside there a re wraparound verandas, extensive gardens and a bbq gazebo.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4Lt_39PrWFIBwcdAuoXa2kcB5vt9035T_1vmb7Ska2HWXoq8_G5g7VQGWZPEY2zl00tIyxzcQUK5TuFWyX9Xkcj_NMk7caSG88agApPGbUNSJA_6RBJEObP7sqJGs8NIo2TpW5CxhiXQFzW0hKENmTmbmmz2Y-4Iwsbv05TyDPaj71utb59yUK_3WWFHHGC6zB6ojIsDjz1ZWfVl_s1Acot0_q-yMGPMcJRENQorXNVqiBXGJSAljlHsAhFyvjTH_DXKFvZCb8GiBWAGO8SbhjH1cg52wBglpRiivTouGnDZ76q8gcbsqMBxZJK9BQtd8ioXozEGQ6n54QTI9f2qOUw3x43xd-f8oVuPTqxMlqmV4iUU6FxU60Yi-3mLo1HaJl9kOMTE-Oxz4IV7EW0Xl9GK4IShTY2J9CVTXR-z2Yqp75GfnYBOqI2gtnVMFiWfoZAAgdtCGHCg_WEE4oJA7p2vdnSuU3SysUrEm6UYsdsn3T32SBGOmVsShUwtScdMwrpXOGbeRzyALsm_lQd6ZJ8InQJTq8KT9XqxtJ_tOR-_N6QzIddmy_wWfPUL6fQcIx5iTDQ9c_JWopT6_atwlvjw7tDjAtZamrxGBa_buzv2chN6Xw=w1024-h683-no width="583" height="392"]]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Across the road is Southport Beach with beautiful white sand and safe swimming.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Travellers' photo gallery

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=<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cockle Creek = == <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Cockle Creek ** is a tiny settlement in [|Tasmania], the farthest point south one can drive in Australia,[|[1]] 148 km from [|Hobart] via the [|Huon Highway]. It is located on [|Recherche Bay] on the edge of the [|Southwest National Park], part of the [|Tasmanian Wilderness] [|World Heritage Area].[|[1]]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During the 24 days spent moored in the harbour, 200 men were set to work as ships and shore became a hive of activity. It was a welcome break from shipboard routine, although a busy one as most of the crews worked ashore. Before describing the scientific research, it is appropriate to note these various activities, many of which must have left archaeological traces on land or seabed.
 * The example of the preservation of the James Craig over a century later, is a reminder that archaeological evidence of this visit may be preserved in the mud and sand. D’Entrecasteaux provided testimony to the constitution of the seabed when they had difficulty in raising an anchor which was ‘too deeply buried in the mire’. ‘With this type of seafloor,’ he concluded, ‘where the anchors sink to the point of disappearing, it is necessary to raise the anchor frequently.’ [|[4]]
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/msc4NxBedXpGKP2H4oU2RAOur2WwKvlWO-5El9WVkyb6rfJRCxmNIBVE-WuWqfCVYC5QGF2pvg7o00NUU4ByBsCWPU_IVfes60BbtQtTPZXC_-bSTiW7Vib7uHZxGQxhgCeD3E1h4vkuQc63TBM1E2RAZ2v2lTT8v0CjBSzHk8NOR060gWxTuUqa1jJmUxdyuFYo8_1ShdwqsuPgR8f0s_P8Si1tu1YosYBj_f359uFwZgkJIIMu09LSCzlw0E1CaHW_HK2yw7tBAjMvGI7HvY_Tvf_UezsVXMnwSLd4CP1n9okGVyOLYy5SNmqFjxD9Hcs9q5KdVM-VaQONwf4GiPKU_SPSTcutcVVtLfvMSIeKbgQiFPKraYJWhncGiRpAFjPL-R6MiwdZE27b7UnJzEyZj_2KFT-9sKccFYUkiFiumJi7HkoYTg4rfIH8ZPmXa8Fu46HGmPe_ncIE7cjIH0GpgAoPozNHtT4m5-KPaCF5V1YVLM-FsgDC4ly2b8yL1TPXlaLhlLP-E3Bv2TBGQVVGaPt0FiKSzkw-g_Ny_oq_ZHUNUA5jKcgud6aRrVIG9MOIb9x6P82kFa7FR9eCwlA0PSfTtc6vUgiLrpnHc5ZUPCqXrA=w640-h427-no width="359" height="241"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uiKjw1QfucmkVXNW5zK6ET5Z5Q1vsxedQwUxjq7JfcsuoROveGNGxXyDYIhAo89yMDlour8n42QxudzkZTfk1TWc4qsgiBsekgmyVp5ofIsggBBFLg8vmxPS2Vu_WOwyg_7dhLDhH3J4Nduug4zOkOxcLAiBMplYvlwJFp5tyno301Aw8VaDE1WRu4ix4whKweTrqpCvlqeZJ7v9VKH0ZWkMuLjbWFOj0Q-zAny8rY-8TLETimywuqDIEkAjVkX7y87WRL4R0mU4Q-u908p3iOY_r8QtMHw_0-OfbQQULXddtanCcDp5d6jBqwczrBSHkNF6d2GSpwbPdqStB9KPYg8pPmn_R2gBv00985szbcumQM-5NhaOetOczhg0VQVq6xHUzi6D3AGL6YpO9Zy6uSdHwDIDPNCnYsPu6lkcTde3zAhpxHjnYr7EmbwLz0gKjtnY1i2SUxQHS8BIgBSjaFqoJ1zOMINR4YFDdKQCVfKqJUIQtxMBBrlwgznANFnZJcARO7ZEodIz1Hx5iB4jRyswF0Je9Sz8flPrQihDbJiCB4H1s5kXPE8rdL2OTo75wslfptV6UQ4O5FrFFqI_H_m6TrlprMI1PnXGxCcwQnlE1G8BBA=w640-h427-no width="353" height="237" caption="FLYWHEEL FROM THE OLD COCKLE CREEK TIMBER MILL"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Twk4u_nbkAEUMhjruLWKIiLT3ix8Qfpmd8wcNPljVkw0y7ZsjCKKTAUhexvEfNOuLyWNxtKsPdsQEuHdNfnZiwoqXgsUB-RFv1h9EKqqqLNGQ81diJ1HhP2462fub4uJ3cY9pqBGYW_E7mwJ2MfJZ9qhUeMCy6tjVsylozVHBOFEUYq7odry7Y4HSAd7i7uWJhtUbf6xIOov5teYQEVewXrS61hBKEUH1P-WtgCIlgfwDPF7yVXZxWDBPG-NZMG6Mv_GdPz807aLsLfZdboepOihZeh1ZxorYvvXKh91zBdS2CIkZ-lEthttnCHvJGvRYkM6t5WAoQ6c8TOPqTlZwvGJKbnRUhxI7zr2QVnKDEjE9mnYzcAz86c4P0F8ETThR-aun6OAaGxMFG_YtYznXY3bofPvyX01ldHcVaPsi2KZUpPzpLEXHrk9WAnSE09_moBDJq8z0-JmjdRCPWrRNzO4csh2eDTsgGXO-q4HUgpVYVRsTbSM-9UQU1BYoSI-D0w4qeOTlh1L5C_FcYpbBhqv-Z_fXya5GmP_pEsQv_5K9LA0u6lH5xViylCGANrqtw1uKgUrmsCLYfKi3Io5zRoX4egVdHqXqCnlySUWGsHvwnWMow=w341-h191-no]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GhkIaFiv-TUgZGjAvR_orooKQwGQuVBp-A6550jOSA3JelD929FIPFhIiwSYGGqAH5yjsDhl9DotTK_tRiTdQ-Ab1HGmdlWt-SHMfN0tXRq-3CPkoBcgr_HwSeiB04hcEIXe_CU6m52nE3h9YFFMeDI4fWiDa453ylI-nqbFEDYFko_SCu0UMMNDYpIBTT54rT9St5Q7-zlLPP-cSeHR3RpZgZMeNGiMvw60-xyxQXwzwACQDG37xOSCsDC7WGMJkbDNIeqhArvUzVXGtVs6QD6doGg2C31xteAq7KYlqjO0hoosAtRu4NKPr04BAXgmTCIhGQbxKbPWQFeEbmTiUh7JGhZiNQpgBYPEIr8mRAn5JAUG8jG2J8uXXyK-jE5mEt3ZMfxJh7hx9jpDhdSqucTK3_IRSFDOnUHMjjAW1eDWAXa7vXuP2jb---vhVSvWBIFKizkKZ2207AGWDouJfFVHJ7SeEkcuTY2_sxZnJqb2Y7ckXvwHP1o5PuR79pKa53A_WPlBAVHzmHIdaBhGaMP7oOI2OGz-mVZblrQUcy341JYrxuy_7lf1Hvmpq90zrNquoCRCW_2nWjO9vZMvKEOSPSttBpMs7JquQ8qTUMAET0bF_g=w640-h326-no width="365" height="188"]] ||

Cockle Creek Local Heritage
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cockle Creek is about 2 hours drive south from Hobart. It is reached via the Huon Highway (A6) through Geeveston. Take the C635 past the Hastings Caves turn off then follow the C636 gravel road through Lune River to Cockle Creek. The last stages of the road beyond Cockle Creek are fairly rough but can be negotiated by 2 wheel drive vehicles. If driving between dusk and dawn, please be aware that you are sharing the road with wildlife.

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CC1. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">T32. Cockle Creek Cemetery, Recherche Bay === Located on Recherche Bay some 148km south-west of Hobart, the settlement of Cockle Creek was abandoned some years ago and the cemetery has fallen into neglect, with some of the headstones broken and others no longer legible. This cemetery contains 12 marked graves and at least another 10 which have lost their markers. The earliest identifiable burials date from the early 1880s, with the latest from the 1930s.
 * This area was originally set aside in the 1850s as a school reserve for the rapidly growing town of Ramsgate. At its peak there were almost 300 people living here and an extensive town plan had been drawn up, naming the streets.
 * Despite high hopes the planned township did not materialise and the original cemetery at Planters Beach was abandoned when people started burying their dead here at Cockle Creek.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1ImwczOTRF35zVKIRaKthsID9yVI3A45Ft4shCvqeem62ngWrvhbMcJBtRMeKabSbxjB0fT41niCDFglJ7G2SjRI7M__ku7pV3J8yC580_QaBpauHpLv6GnIFdAxIffr_gZx5mEm-cJGOLFLljgc8srL5l0dv6MhtG-KusiZ6UzmjuvM33WET6_U3HtcKmABcmTegy9ErWQks3VwvelGERgzp5bgov62DLuYvGUPO8A6krBGAPKGB2_LSfhVtCy4IvlhXZIFT9bMNZJkJ974PgzZ5su7GbMmEmcUMQx3MUgHCcc1Dp5Fs4QzZ79s_rcMO6BmtWiH7ExhL_WPln7YOcaORz1GRmuxHhUjKLHvMVeWto-oBwdc8VNr6ZDPfNmnFekXb2gfDGcA6VSFb0YK9GtMt2jsF-PwXNIbiQktPcxLL4MEcZSPgA0KGFehsu6I3tDlU_hun06E_CoZ87IZbS1LW8EA-ms9c4eYdA2kUiv7wE0RK1JgslhzdlppXgvEIGppv99R41GDNkFqLucRz6hP4GHbMOEj6vfLclJdAaHEdf1Dp29Oa0RjVNBtBPOspKbznXC-rk_QOXvJ0VsjUVLhqNdcVLNP=w640-h427-no width="407" height="273" caption="Cockle Creek Cemetery, Recherche Bay"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/aWJIgjqQi6BYIHByZG8YnMbKIKEnaYioXgi5D6wHECrWXcvoqGVYEhiBk84Fxu6baoBRX84YwPZQbhmVumdV6zy9MmSJH-Zl5wtw_Jmq3ktmFh85K9MSH60bwzwlPd-KvGyQejgVzOgOd8abkM--kqbg9bBgZg64ENzghYf4YbUxgRPT7fXWjrQp8Nuxf3RbzjdUg8xBqjxDb9kJU2TYoPy0F-X55kE4JCos_yw6d_Drx0WvnC3RS4lGj3wpOm1iDWM4-Qa9ZdnSaOPzbnFsMhDrSZR0tQKmDZy1cWYt-Y9_5MSjv4X7kaKeRpDf-pojIC0vd-_6hFacv7JY0wsbUjV3YdMwUXbVwFDebb6j8YpRwICBX4S8OOYdP9TrslKZggh9rpHx48VRZs81sNmWcZ8DmubNTo7b198G8e_Bf9QKw2PDDFsjKqjHFRf6aN9V0uo1xDvdHAPoLMpKMnNTO1ueD3nv4XhDHxvZ6T6NVO00MlTHg95H-J0UCbHprfFRTeBQGSQm83V2n0OxM0g5TRGWixGhvE0bPKH-KP39CTaTSrLu-NE4oI8kx-692oqh03B1GsI7XfgzHOcNQxmDkOD1OSS146P9=w640-h427-no width="398" height="267" caption="Cockle Creek Cemetery, Recherche Bay"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cQEvY8T5Vasxm0B3yiQcrg1VQ5iVlWv-wlNwsOtTZ27qWpjvA8HJH44J0hESlAbhtEDC1-Pqdla0VfXry5AwMMXEIkraO5k_bq0GyUMPvN29GW8wTC6MTetnnvHTLjKLUKqzRZYkJiPBKqqMad9f8LMinEzOEeDVdqKmWybXozJKVviUT6-9XxX6Fj3i6QYXUz9_aSLKJAwkkjXRoJmRBVtgQ0qmYbljaUB2uKAhvkIXd7LWniyvDnJq6Vaw7wqnQghkuXQeE1IkCAVYOSQKdjfroPEeYRgNDVNxknCZjS2UEeP0JC-ywsNONVhfquKBMgp0CK3h2lAX25Two-XIqiuHizBbzaR925HnuvqkLtqnFIdkdzbzI2bETh6jtsOQBvg-O7dW05qaRXIOVcNorF7hPHCV56FYfjWFdz2A_OMWhA2J96ZJXVyPDoidjGkdMIzqP5eg29JPktinu2SiZ5SijRq0VTGHcENQacDt22qVvpzI7MlwdqXdMVJLyDk7sWPsMejzxrxj-LY4J-7IwCGxLkEjD810eNNz9p2wwzxV-WxbHNdbYNexcplreoWEKgNuLIuBDNzcf04iqSyWr0G0Ca0ohhjX=w640-h427-no width="413" height="277" caption="Cockle Creek Cemetery, Recherche Bay"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Dh921ZW8kMclrscGMPliqmGOok83f5q2hBpMHnL6Rw7FP9wtw3gDT9QT6kr7dTQLXo9f5cILVagkkw8ech10bbdKUDCxakMb94Oh9S-HAmSBkILLMtS87RqtGYvMvlENnnHQ8BTcifQsJkttAxedYGvjhyL2Yu1SfZSbKNMWF2C0lfMpmWuOy77Svs-WI9y6hI7I7W4-RPyO6f-pqjKvhcYtFMjS9YWl1bN2kyM2OzYX7VmZyMxDq2heaEWDkqb8kzW_MW_09loGYw-CS3RBIDQxFPWoYNyVQDFMTsDIVElN0fbyLeyriVlQwQQVoH4uZejSHzRwOsrPCKGwwbWvpCRh36C5OUW3mrKkReEuSkAxWymeZka7t9JAukwBXirOtsxavTwQIqYET8sMCza8eHF0jnmLzhyEK3demHIAQt52naMj3NMicf8OoxUZkt9LjBANhueLPxui25HAcF_lnp_3x4btOC-lWLVKV-puv7xYK-MB-fwsPmTgIOvT4R2T2xuLrd0yLEScWsDZknaSKCYiCkn3HToI3dBJQredhRTTSSMm3pomY0t0tbsJbpr_aOPQV-Q6_iXnxJJwPihgG10QQrnja8Eb=w640-h427-no width="405" height="272" caption="Cockle Creek Cemetery, Recherche Bay"]] ||
 * [[image:http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/qld-bundy-drinker/Tassie%202014%20-%202015/tn_IMG_1133_zpsodmxnjr6.jpg width="423" height="284" caption="Adams Family memorial"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Tzx2mIu6imC-n-6y8jtmCKeInkUSz-3ZPo-tZb8PMVbxGNK-8wgtIUL2vqBZX1JFC0NCFgE4yzO0Sv6NVV3QjDI0PazvbmSlAu82ri_oRmh9SNBn91IIh5fDuI3I3CJfgE6UJLH2Hao-iVbIxJbAd8sUrgj-Qy8dINiGyzDHo7eMuUZAR2J1Ahi6B6zCNxmtUaiwAOmDTh7FHAPmLuisaPKadTIR5tIOodFBweRbRuw5n-bNsLgEj-QXhQ5SneGfQSktGuJbGaSuqBv1DHg62XO2wss08eel4H22aZWEG7rkervXRU2AysMTUIvo3iIz4sIrShUfVcVGF62ek0LsiCCn6jHh7T0T3y6ZUKHEdm_ulH6TEljEP_ra4w4w9bLJygbSCBoN-bHEdZhCNimlURdxJCeR9wzHHcbJbA1FwieoRQJMTrddttx_M3LVmCEDR7pP-7ptzH6pmM1-LLP147k5qvVIIcJfYHs4eadBN3NC81f4M9q4S_dToIMIdqwwGHscFgvugwxTrKmOnvXO6ZhbajirM8-otQRnFFflswRFOUFXlHV7ug4qzlNMQGaZU8Zmg0p7xnlxWDeRfFhaBKph0pM6SCSA=w800-h600-no width="373" height="282" caption="End of the Southern Road to Tasmania's South West Park"]] ||
 * //Registered// by the Tasmanian National Trust
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CC2. Rose and Walter Adams Cottage, Cockle Creek Road, Cockle Creek
The cottage is of historic heritage significance as it represents the sole surviving residence associated with the areas early timber settlement. > > <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #737373; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Updated 17 Jan 2008, 11:38am
 * Statement of Significance**:
 * The cottage is of historic heritage significance because of its direct association with locals Walter and Rose Adams. The Adams family have been connected with Recherche Bay for 150 years.
 * Walter and Rose lived in the cottage since 1931. Walter was one of the people who, with Milford Fletcher, cut the South Coast track.
 * After the closure of the second Cockle Creek sawmill around 1950, the Adams were the only permanent residents remaining in this southernmost settlement of Tasmania.
 * <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16.9px;">Southern centenarian celebrates

A colourful character from Tasmania's far south is celebrating her 100th birthday.
 * Rose Adams was born on the Tasman Peninsula, and moved to Australia's southern-most town, Cockle Creek with her husband during the Great Depression.
 * She spent most of the next 70 years there, living in a shack without electricity, telephone or other modern luxuries.
 * "I've had a hard life, but I've enjoyed every bit of it," she said.

Mrs Adams stayed on when her husband died in the 1960s, and for a time was Australia's southern-most resident.
 * "It was beautiful and quiet."
 * She spent most of her life eating fresh produce including fish, crayfish, wallaby and even echidna.
 * "I didn't eat a possum though, I was a bit fussy about that."

Mrs Adams says healthy living and never smoking or drinking are the reasons for her longevity.
 * "Go fishin' and chop wood and look after myself and everyone else around the place," she said.
 * "All the walkers that used to get lost used to come to my place.
 * "I'm used to the country and I liked living there because I used to be a good servant to everyone."
 * But she was forced to leave 5 years ago after breaking her hip while on her morning walk.

<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #310099; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">

<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #310099; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[|**PHOTO:** For many years Mrs Adams was Australia's southern-most resident (Cate Grant: ABC News)] || <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #310099; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|**PHOTO:** 100 year old Rose Adams blows out the candles on her cake (Simon Frazer: ABC news)] [|**PHOTO:** Rose Adams cutting her cake(Simon Frazer: ABC News)] [|**PHOTO:** Rose Adams - "I've had a hard life, but I've enjoyed every bit of it" (Simon Frazer: ABC News)]

|| >
 * * Because of their isolated lifestyle they, particularly Rose, featured in many newspaper and magazine articles.
 * 'A rough life but she likes it':**
 * Story and pictures by Harry Frauca. The //Australian Women's Weekly// July 9th 1958
 * An interview with 54 year old boatbuilder, fisherman - Mrs. Rose Adams, wife of the last man, Walter Adams, regularly fishing from Cockle Creek on Recherche Bay (near the southernmost tip of Tasmania).
 * Mentions the three settlements; Cockle Creek, Catamaran and Laprena.
 * Article includes photos of the Cockle Creek Bridge, the Adams house on the banks of Cockle Creek and Rose Adams in her backyard. || * More recently Rose featured on State and National television.
 * She also featured on
 * the Huon Trail tourist information boards erected by the Huon Valley Council,
 * in Australia Post's book "The Face of Australia" and
 * in the "Australian Geographic Book of Tasmania".
 * Rose remained the sole resident of Cockle Creek until 1997. At the age of 94, she now lives in the house next door.
 * The cottage has strong meaning for the community because it contributes built character and a sense of history as the sole surviving residence of the areas early timber industry.
 * This aspect of significance is enhanced by the cottages peaceful setting and its direct association with well-known locals, Walter and Rose Adams.
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #9947 ||

CC3. Ramsgate Whaling and Settlement Site Cockle Creek Road Recherche 7109

 * Permanently Registered THR #11017

CC4.. Young & McLachlan's Planters Beach whaling station, Planter Beach, Cockle Creek
Southwest NP 7109
 * THPI1R Permanent Registration -part of consolidated place - Huon Valley Council THR #10399

CC5. Gellibrand & Mortimer's Cockle Creek whaling station east of Cockle Creek
Southwest NP 7109
 * THPI1R Permanent Registration - #10400 part of consolidated place - Huon Valley Council

CC6. Alexander Imlay's Snake Point whaling station west of Snake Point, Cockle Creek
Southwest NP 7109
 * THPI1R Permanent Registration #10401 -part of consolidated place - Huon Valley Council

CC7. Pryat's (Planter Beach) grave (cemetery) Planter Beach, Cockle Creek
Southwest NP 7109
 * Permanent Registration - THPI1R #10405

CC8. d'Entrecasteaux 1793 Garden Cockle Creek, Rocky Bay Catamaran 7109

 * Permanent Registration - #10598

CC9. Recherche Bay South (part of # 11018 d'Entrecasteaux Expedition Sites)

 * Permanent Registration - #11834

CC10. Cockle Creek Road Cockle Creek Road, Recherche 7109

 * Permanent Registration - #952

Southport No longer Heritage Listed
2 Records found

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">S12, T28. Whaler's Hotel, Fisher's Point, Recherche Bay

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Registered by the Tasmanian National Trust//
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/aNGRWImwvKIreYEkD7EgyDcHV1oC9Ek9Y0YXNB4lu5Dar3WLtRtjIhZaJAu0OClOrZY2mUqV4LeD00TPIH9VHoAbBZ77J-x53Wlhg5I1M9KL3TCpccvpTZSIV_xzmpLxS-7c9bzVAXJqfEsUYl0JyGewXYGVt-x-2adIXza0H7xUe6Bc0cX7nVD1psFc9ICBl_B1M_aMBTXW1IbfO8AdDN_k7HgneqCH2gT6P-4izN1qwfFXR8jBMsGDK3GqXxxVfZdsBuGg_7OUnl-7ieh10IW2f9s2CwueMAow6iKEG2ATHZU2ik8aJg4G-z94_oEI8IoDbac3136nyJkTTT9xpdDWzfMGRE_c9g3YeXCbxVCAf4J-NFiYFQpPi3nLF5H8p4K3RxEGZfDt6WhAcDg8n0RjmV0rYuUx9CKWAnXaBjh6kn_SoyVJZ4Wiv127QclLT3apkwf_tFMnrfntrqG51z8v6Cy273dHENDccFpcz0sibPFAXB7onkpHE4XFs8UbQAC4yXbEQuEWVKCq25oda4JejAndw01SC3FP_Ikmm2BfSRSp-FT3d7E0sAa0jk0HRkrO02eVnjEXprFpRjNrEj2lRzn8zpRw=w500-h332-no caption="Fisher Point pub, 2006 "]] ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">**S13, T23. Foundation traces of original convict station, Kingfish Beach Road, Southport** Southport Probation Station Originally opened for procuring timber, more recently reception of prisoners on primary probation. Station stands close to the shore, front parade rises supported by piles.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1830-1840, //Registered by the Tasmanian National Trust//
 * Southport probation station situated near the Southern entrance of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, a few miles North of Recherche Bay. Hobart 60 miles distant, communication by water, reach Hobart easily in fair winds in one day.

Buildings generally of very tolerable description - paving for four feet around the huts so as to throw water draining from the roof's clear of the buildings foundations.

Accommodation for about 500 men in the wards, and 30 in the separate apartments. Two mess rooms - one large and not in good repair, it is old and floor of loose earth. Cook house and bake house large and fair buildings made of wood with a brick wall around them.

There are three yards quite distinct, one laid with good gravel and two with sand.

Old huts built to accommodate 40 men each, front the station towards the sea, are very good, each hut quite distinct but sleeping places are narrow in some wards.

Separate Apartments are in 4 small yards. Doors are placed alternately in one yard, or the other opposite in a manner similar to Cascades Female Factory in Hobart. Built of brick with a high brickwall around the yards. ||  || Solitary cells not very well ventilated, but secure, sidewalls carried forward to prevent communication between inmates. 30 additional cells nearly completed.

Hospital one large room, rather crowded and hot, eleven men were in it, Dispenser's room small.

Very good Chapel divided by partitions, one part for officers and three divisions for the three distinct classes of prisoners.

Books for circulating amongst men, kept in small room off chapel. Attendance at school tolerable but no great improvement reported.

Resident Medical Officer visits the station at Port Esperance and an overseer who is Roman Catholic, reads prayers to men of his creed, about one third of all prisoners.

Clerk in the office is a passholder at sixpence a day and rations.


 * There are 361 prisoners on the station including 50-60 boys under twenty years, the youngest about 14 - these are kept in distinct gang from the men as much as possible during day and entirely separated at night from the men.

All older classes of convicts have been removed, now solely those from the 'John Soames' and 'Lord Auckland'. Men separated as much as possible being distributed in three classes. 2nd and 3rd are mixed at work but as those of 3rd class are under separate treatment, all classes are kept distinct at night and meal times. || Supply of all description of timber is inexhaustible. Iron tram roads are laid in different directions so conveyance of timber to water's edge is performed without any difficulty.

Abundant supply of shells for lime, and of good clay, also good stone for building and paving - all close at hand. [|[2]] || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When Governor Dennison visited the station in April 1848 he wrote of > <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//‘inspecting 130 of the greatest scoundrels in the world; young villains from sixteen to twenty-five years of age, and of the most incorrigible habits; they are sent down here to be as far as possible from the settled parts of the island. Eighty of these are in separate cells, but they are most difficult to manage; and I was obliged to hold out threats of enforcing the most severe system of separate confinement; and, in three or four instances, to carry out my threats”// (Varieties of Vice Regal Life p 90.) <span class="reference" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.75px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|[3]]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">Two hundred years and several bushfires have left little of the former convict station or bustling mill town and international port taking timber to Europe.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">For the past fifty years it has consisted of shacks for families from Hobart and south, and home for a couple of farmers and few fishermen. Only a handful of houses have survivied, the most notable being The Jetty House, a heritage listed building built in 1875.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">In the nineteenth century Southport prospered as a port serving whalers, sealers and the local timber industry. There was a time when there were a number of substantial wharves and jetties dotted around the bay.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">Today Southport's only industries are tourism and fishing.


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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Heritage Registered Properties in the Huon Valley Municipality
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From records held at @https://dmzapp17p.ris.environment.gov.au/ahpi/action/search/manage-heritage-search/landing (which was www.heritage.gov.au) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using Local Government search term "Huon" in state of "Tasmania".
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">165 Heritage records found in 2016, including the 42 places listed on the <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">previous page (Esperance) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">.

=== HA1. Former Methodist Church Nicholls Rivulet Road and Cross Road, Nicholls Rivulet === The former Methodist church at Nicholls Rivulet is one of only two surviving structures with direct associations with the Tasmanian Aboriginal race (the other being Dolly Dalrymple's cottage at Sherwood, near Latrobe) (G.1).

This is a small rectangular Federation Carpenter Gothic church on a rubble foundation with steeply pitched gable roof with exposed rafters clad in corrugated iron. The walls are weatherboard. It features an elaborately carved bargeboard to the north end with a timber finial. The exposed roof framing includes rafters, collar ties and two horizontal iron tie-rods, with vertical rods connecting to the collars above. There is a raised platform or dais at the southern end, with a rail supported by three turned timber posts (partly damaged). Furniture includes simple moveable forms and a timber lectern.
 * The entrance below is two doors within a pointed arch frame. The windows are multi-paned arches. The floor of the church is tongue and grooved hardwood. There is a 1360mm high dado of 150mm wide beaded baltic pine boards (fixed vertically), with a moulded dado rail. The wall lining above consists of horizontal boards, to a height of 2250mm. There is no evidence of any lining having existed above this level, suggesting that the interior lining may have been left partly finished.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Carpenter Gothic
 * National Heritage Registered
 * Australia's first Indigenous recording star; Fanny Cochrane Smith
 * Read more: On the Convict Trail: Methodist Church, Nicholls Rivulet
 * See more details above
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3580

=== HA2. Garden Island Creek School 6066 Channel Highway, Garden Island Creek === The Garden Island Creek school is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian school building. Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms, timber bargeboards and finials, 12-paned windows and a verandah with timber detailing. Now the location of **School House Craft** - Lyn Butler
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
 * School House 6066 Channel Hwy, Garden Island Creek, Tas 03 6297 8136.
 * Machine and hand sewing embroidery, applique, patchwork, knitted toys.
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3530

=== HA3. Glenfiddich - now Harmony Farm, 232 Police Point Road, Police Point === Harmony Farm (Glenfiddich) is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weather board Victorian Georgian domestic building.
 * (circa 1868) heritage listed on 4 1/2 acres (approx) (1.78 ha).
 * Charming Victorian workers cottage
 * modern kitchen, renovated, quiet location - <span style="background-image: url(">sold for $392400 9/5/2015

Description: This is a weatherboard cottage with a central door, flanking double hung windows and hipped roof with narrow boxed eaves. The verandah on the street facade has hipped ends and single posts with a timber rail. There is a single dormer window in the roof.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian - <span style="background-image: url(">Sale Listing
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3582

=== HA4. Glenthorn RA 8634 Channel Highway, Woodstock === A single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building.

Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with gabled roof forms, attic windows, decorative bargeboards and a verandah to two sides.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3598

=== HA5. Hall RA 8241 Channel Highway, Cradoc === This place is of historic cultural heritage significance for demonstrating the provision of civic infrastructure by rural communities. It further demonstrates the ways in which differing communities commemorated their War dead.

The Cradoc Hall is of historic heritage significance because it contributes a sense of history and built character to the streetscape and is representative in demonstrating early 20th century human activities in the area, with particular reference to land use for the provision of public buildings and local amenities. This place has special meaning to the community for its associations with local war participants.

**Description**: A large opened planned weatherboard hall with an L shaped end which houses a meeting room and kitchen. The roof is steeply pitched, gabled and clad in corrugated iron. The gabled ends feature plain timber bargeboards. Windows are large paned. Inside is a commemorative roll of honour from the world wars. Two mature pine trees feature at the northern side.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #8747

**HA6. House RA 336 Esperance Coast Road, Police Point** This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building.

Description: This is a weatherboard building with two projecting gables, one to the front and one to the side, between these and around the corner of the house, is a verandah with decorative brackets. The windows are double hung.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian; <span style="display: inline !important;">Tasmanian Heritage Register #3463

=== HA7. House RA 8970 Channel Highway, Woodstock === A single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.

Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof, multi-paned windows and a verandah. There are also dormer windows. There is a central 4-panelled door, with flanking double hung windows. ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian Tasmanian Heritage Register #3602

=== HA8. House 414 Cygnet Coast Road, Lymington === This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building. Description: This is a weatherboard cottage with a central door, flanking double hung windows and hipped roof with narrow boxed eaves. The verandah on the street facade has hipped ends and treillage posts and valance.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3600

=== HA9. House 360 Bakers Creek Road, Bakers Creek === This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.

**Description**: This is a hipped roofed Victorian Georgian house with a later gable roofed building built to one side. The front door is four panelled with a central glazed section and side and top lights, the flanking windows are double hung. There is a valley gutter between the two sections of the building.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #3574

HA10. House 1305 Pelverata Road, Pelverata, Huon Valley
This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building. Description: This is a weatherboard house with a hipped roof and a verandah on three sides. The verandah has a single dormer window with a gabled roof. The front door is four panelled with side and top lights.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian; Tasmanian Heritage Register #3581

HA11. House RA 330 Esperance Coast Road, Police Point Huon Valley
This house looks completely re-built and so is no longer a heritage property. This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building. These characteristics are found in the external form, construction methods and the detailing, both externally and internally.

Description: A weatherboard building with two projecting gables, one to the front and one to the side, between these and turning the corner of the house, is a verandah with decorative brackets. The windows are double hung.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register #6647
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HA12. Snug Tiers, Snug Tiers Rd, Snug Huon Valley
> This can be a great place for winter snow riding near Hobart, but only for those who have the right winter gear. >
 * <span style="background-image: url(">Register of the National Estate Record #11478
 * This route is at altitude (above 600m) and the winds can get biting up here, so have some good warm clothes and wet weather gear. You will get wet feet on this path even in Summer - accept this early and you'll have more fun.
 * Those who are out here for the scenery may enjoy the walk down to the bottom of Pelverata Falls (the MTB route comes out at the top). You have to walk down to the top of the falls and cross the creek and head up the slippery flow stone on the other side from where you can pick up a cairned foot pad that will lead you steeply down to the base of the falls (joining the walking track that comes in from Pelverata).
 * This track is hard to follow, and extremely dangerous as it descends a rock scree. It should only be contemplated by very experienced walkers who bring some decent walking shoes in with them. Allow at least an hour to do this return walk.
 * Lots of opportunities up here for accidents as the trail is very rocky in places and you might not always have phone reception. Despite it's proximity to Hobart treat this as a remote area, carry a first aid kit and let someone know where you've gone.
 * Statement of Significance:** The area is the habitat for several rare plant species; MONOTOCA LINIFOLIA which is unreserved, and EUCALYPTUS CORDATA which is poorly reserved.
 * The area is also noted as having the highest diversity of eucalypt species in Tasmania. Of further scientific interest is the presence of a large number of endemic plant species, a high proportion of which are unconforming with their accepted distribution.
 * Such plant refugia assist in the understanding of the present day ecology and the revision of theories on the spread of plant species after the last glaciation.


 * Description**: The area is elevated and its slopes are generally steep and rugged in places. Both Snug River and Melville Creek are in deep valleys.
 * The Snug Tiers area forms the eastern side of an elevated plateau and includes the Snug Plains.
 * The variety of vegetation types reflects both the topography and fire history.
 * The Snug Tiers area offers superb views because of its elevated position, and conversely is visible from the north, south, and east.

Strathgordon National Heritage


Strathgordon is set deep within the Tasmanian wilderness on the banks of Lake Pedder, surrounded by a spectacular landscape packed with adventure activities, and with a secret history to share. It also sits on the edge of Lake Pedder, Australia's largest freshwater lake and water catchment system. A key part of Tasmania's hydroelectric scheme, this massive lake is also accessible for trout fishing, kayaking and swimming.
 * Located on the edge of Tasmania's World Heritage Wilderness Area, Strathgordon is literally the place at the end of the road. From here, civilisation ends and there is only amazing nature to explore.
 * These are spectacular surrounds – with vast expanses of water, forested islands, distant snowy peaks and a peaceful quiet. The drive on from Maydena to Strathgordon is itself an adventure as it passes through stunning scenery in this wilderness area.
 * Numerous walking trails explore the lake's edge and surrounding wilderness, as well as the Gordon Dam wall - an engineering marvel that now offers thrill seekers the highest abseiling experience in the world.
 * A wander around the old town reveals the area's engineering history – and the natural history lost to it including the original Lake Pedder, with its spectacular beach of pink quartz sand.

**SG. Strathgordon Area**
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===SG1. [|Angel Cliffs, Gordon River] Strathgordon, TAS, Australia=== <span style="background-image: url("> <span style="background-image: url("> The area covers a short stretch of the lower Gordon River where it is broad but still relatively fast flowing. The river narrows at Angel Cliffs which are 20 to 30 metres high and composed of Ordovician limestone.
 * The cliffs feature a calcite incrustation which resembles a biblical angel. There are a number of small caves in the area, the largest being rocky Sprent cave. Temperate rainforest dominates the riverside vegetation.
 * [|Registered] on the Register of the National Estate

===SG2. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Franklin River] Derwent Bridge, TAS, Australia=== The Franklin River is 130km long, rising nearly 1,400m above sea level, and joining the Gordon River at sea level. It has fourth largest flow volume of Tasmanian rivers and its tributaries include the Collingwood, Loddon, Andrew and Jane Rivers. Andrew Basin is the site of Darwin meteorite crater. The Franklin completely drains the Frenchman's Cap massif, flowing through spectacular gorges including Irenabyss, Great Ravine, Propsting Gorge and Glen Calder. Its broad lower reaches are in cave-pocked limestone country. River and environs remain in essentially pre-man condition.

Franklin River is a wilderness river: no habitation, agriculture, major introduced species along any of its length.
 * Tasmania's 4th largest river, flows through largest gorge (Great Ravine - 5 km long and up to 0.8 km deep) and a chasm (the Irenabyss). Most undamaged large temperate wild river in Australia.
 * Quickly becoming canoeist and inflatable rafter and bushwalker 'mecca'.
 * Natural species include Huon pine and new, undescribed species of OREOMYRRHIS. Crossed by Governor and Lady Franklins' expedition, May 1842.
 * [|Registered] on the Register of the National Estate

===SG3. [|Gordon Dam and Lake Gordon] Gordon River Road=== <span style="background-image: url("> <span style="background-image: url("> The 135 km Gordon River rises on the eastern side of the Mount King William Range from where it flows nearly due south for approximately 45km before turning west. The river then cuts through several north-south oriented ranges before turning north west in the direction of Macquarie Harbour. The Dam and Lake are located in a landscape which has complex geomorphic expression and high diversity of landforms, geology, soils and biota. Gordon Dam (and Lake Gordon) was a landmark event in that: A considerable number of articles, papers and books have been published on a wide range of issues associated with the Gordon River Power Development > ===SG4. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Gordon River State Reserve (Former)] Strahan, TAS, Australia===
 * The mouth of the Gordon River is at the south east, or inland, end of Macquarie Harbour.
 * Gordon Dam is located 75 km from the river mouth in a deep narrow gorge cut by the river between the north-south trending Hamilton and Wilmot Ranges which lie to the north and south of the dam respectively.
 * Mt Sprent (1058m) lies 10 km to the south of the dam in the Wilmot Range.
 * There is no record of human occupation of the region and the only recorded human activity in the region was 19th century geological and survey exploration and track cutting to provide walking access from the occupied Derwent River valley to convict pining and mining settlements near Macquarie Harbour on the west coast of Tasmania.
 * In the 20th century, bushwalkers followed the track to Port Davey south of Macquarie Harbour. The penetration of the region for construction and operation of the Dam was not only a significant change in land use but also in the recording of and access to the region.
 * .it was associated with the first non-Aboriginal occupation of this previously unrecorded region of Tasmania;
 * .it influenced a significant phase in the economic development of the state; and .its approval by the Tasmanian parliament
 * and its construction were the prologue to a debate which led to significant change in federal-state relationships with regard to land use and control and development of natural resources.
 * Registered on the Register of the National Estate

===SG5. [|Indigenous Place] Strathgordon, TAS, Australia=== ===SG6. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Scotts Peak Dam and Lake Pedder] Scotts Peak Road Via Strathgordon, TAS, Australia=== The dam and Lake Pedder are located in a spectacular region of south-west Tasmania. The landscape consists of the highest mountain in the South-West (Mt Anne, 1350 m) jagged mountain ranges with numerous quartzite or dolerite peaks (the Frankland Range and the Mt Anne Range) a very large lake, cleared of trees which would have died after inundation and been visible from popular viewing points button grass plains forested slopes and creek lines the effects of centuries of wild fires streams carrying dark coloured (button grass) water careful construction of the project and restoration of disturbed areas, to minimise permanent visual scars.

The Frankland Range provides a very attractive backdrop for the lake, especially in calm sunny weather when the reflections of the mountains can be seen in the lake surface.
 * The high rainfall and cool temperatures favour rain forests and dense plant growth where there is suitable nutrition. In the high rainfall areas the steeper slopes lose most of the plant nutrients following fire. Pockets of thick rainforest remain on southern and eastern slopes which are seldom burnt, whereas the northern and western slopes carry denuded sedgeland and button grass and heath.
 * The high rainfall also favours the development of peat forming communities in infertile regions. Button grass thrives in the peaty acidic soils of the wide flat plains; each plant consists of a browny green clump sprouting a few long reeds each ending in a black knob or button.

The following description of the flora around Lake Pedder is taken from Brown, 1955:
 * Lovely and diverse flora blooms on the extensive button grass plains, wooded hills and the rocky peaks.
 * From November to the end of January, the plains are a kaleidoscope of colour: the delicate pink of swamp heath, cream and mauve melaleuca, the guinea gold of ground-hugging hibbertias, pale blue iris, the flamboyant scarlet and orange-hued blandfordia lily, and over all a pungent perfume which recalls the South-West so vividly to all walkers, the lemon-scented thyme, a species of boronia.
 * Lake Pedder is popular with anglers and is renowned for its large trout.

=Scotts Peak Dam Road= - From Roaming Down Under Tasmania's southwest wilderness is largely untouched by humans and accessible only to serious hikers. However two hydroelectric roads penetrate into parts of it, allowing anyone in a conventional vehicle to get a taste of this rugged wilderness. Panoramas of the jagged Arthur and Frankland Ranges, Mt Anne and Lake Pedder can be had simply by driving up this gravel road. near the Creepy Crawlie track Although the flooding of Lake Pedder in the early 1970s was widely viewed as an environmental tragedy, it had a positive side. Travelers today get to drive on roads originally built to access dam construction sites, giving regular people limited access to some awesome scenery. The road used to access Mt Field National Park and Russell Falls continues all the way to Strathgordon, deep in the southwest, and is sealed all the way. Branching off of this road is the gravel road I'm writing about here. It extends about 40km and leads to a dam built near Scotts Peak, hence the unimaginative but accurate name of Scotts Peak Dam Road. If you've driven much in Tasmania you may have noticed that the gravel roads come in two main flavours. There are the hard stony surfaces, which may shake any loose bits off your vehicle but provide good grip in the wet. Then there are the smooth roads which provide a gentle ride, but whose surfaces turn to slippery mush after a bit of rain. Fortunately, given the area's remoteness, the road to Scotts Peak Dam is of the first type, a bit corrugated and pot-holed but reassuringly firm. The turn-off is 29km past Maydena, and one of the first features is the Creepy Crawly Track. This is short loop walk through some attractive forest. The signage along the track is aimed at making the walk more appealing for children, but anyone who appreciates Tasmania's lush forests should enjoy it. In clear weather glimpses of distant Mt Field can be seen from the road in the vicinity of the track. Further on, the road undulates, and alternates between dense forest, more open country and buttongrass plains. Soon Mt Anne comes into view - this is the highest peak in southwest Tasmania, usually snow-capped in winter and often in other seasons too. As the road progresses the view changes and reveals the other peaks of the Mt Anne massif - Mt Sarah Jane and Mt Eliza. In clear weather, and especially with snow, the views can be rather alluring. If you're driving, remember to watch the road! The trailheads for the Mt Anne and Lake Judd tracks are passed, followed by glimpses of Lake Pedder. This is not the original Lake Pedder, but the massive 55km long flooded version which resulted from dam building. Even so, it can be very pleasing to the eye. The first of two modest dams are passed, Edgar Dam, with a campground off to the left. Six kilometers further on the Huon campground turnoff is passed - and also the trailhead for intrepid hikers setting off into weeks of rain and mud. After the Scotts Peak Dam is passed, the road climbs to its terminus at the top of Scotts Peak. If the weather is clear, be prepared for some stunning panoramas. Scotts Peak sits at the south-eastern end of the present Lake Pedder in a commanding position. The Mt Anne massif can be seen in all its glory, along with the full extent of the Arthur Range - not very high, but carved by glaciers into probably the most jagged and spectacular range in Australia. No self-respecting Tasmanian wilderness calendar is complete without a shot from part of the Arthur Range.

My strongest advice for anyone wanting to taste Tasmania's southwest wilderness from the Scotts Peak Dam Road is to visit in good weather, if it is at all possible. The region is notorious for inclement weather, and while the drive would still be pleasant in rain, it is the distant views which make it really special. Clear skies, or high cloud without rain, are preferable. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15.36px; text-align: center;"> ===SG7. [|Prince of Wales Range] Strathgordon, TAS, Australia=== The jagged peaks along the 25 kilometre spine of the Prince of Wales range are a prominent and spectacular feature in the viewfields from major peaks and recreational destinations in the central part of the Western Tasmania national estate listing. Diamond Peak in particular is an outstanding visual feature for its sharp triangular summit block
 * The area has very high wilderness values.
 * Registered on the Register of the National Estate
 * Read More - Prince of Wales Traverse; Diamond Peak photos; [|The Prince of Wales Range - david-noble.net]

===SG8. [|South West National Park] Strathgordon, TAS, Australia=== <span style="color: #660099; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; vertical-align: top;"> Australia's major temperate wilderness.
 * Registered on the Register of the National Estate

===SG9. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Tasmanian Wilderness] Strathgordon, TAS, Australia=== The Tasmanian Wilderness was inscribed on the World Heritage List for both its outstanding natural and cultural universal values:
 * Natural**
 * as an outstanding example representing the major stages in the earth's evolutionary history;
 * as an outstanding example representing significant ongoing ecological and biological processes;
 * as an example of superlative natural phenomena; and
 * contains important and significant habitats for in situ conservation of biological diversity.
 * Cultural**
 * bearing an exceptional testimony to a civilisation or cultural tradition.
 * as an outstanding example of a type of landscape which illustrates significant stages in human history
 * being directly and tangibly associated with living traditions of outstanding universal significance.

===SG10. [|The Gordon River Splits] Strathgordon, TAS, Australia=== The area has moderate to high wilderness values, with particularly high biophysical naturalness. The splits are extremely impressive for the huge flows of water through very narrow and tall chasms, and the consequently very large rapids. ===SG11. <span style="background-image: url(">[|Truchanas Nature Reserve], Strathgordon, TAS, Australia=== Natural Huon Pine forest. Olegas Truchanas (1923 - 6 January 1972) was a [|Lithuanian]-[|Australian] conservationist and nature photographer. He was a key figure in the attempt to stop the damming of the ecologically sensitive [|Lake Pedder] in [|South West Tasmania] by the [|Hydro Electricity Commission]. His photographs, along with those of his protégé, [|Peter Dombrovskis],[|[1]] helped raise public awareness of the importance of the south-west Tasmania. Truchanas and Dombrovskis' stories were depicted in a 2003 documentary, **Wildness**. In the same year, a tribute, **The Forest of Stumps**, by artist Geoff Parr, was exhibited at Hobart's [|Ten Days on the Island] arts festival, including a number of Truchanas' photographs. <span style="display: inline !important;">Singer-songwriter [|Bruce Watson] stated, in his song **Olegas**, "the Franklin runs today because of what [Truchanas] began."
 * The Gordon is the Tasmanian river with the largest mean annual flow, and is relatively fast flowing in its middle stretches.
 * While the area is barely disturbed, aquatic natural values have likely changed since the diversion of waters from the Huon River to the Gordon following the construction of the middle Gordon Hydro-electric scheme.
 * This has led to flow levels throughout the year similar to those which were previously only experienced during flood peaks.
 * The splits themselves are extremely narrow chasms with walls 30 -60 metres high.
 * The full flow of the river through these constrictions leads to very powerful currents and impressive rapids. The valley sides are covered in rainforests and wet scrubs of MELALEUCA, LEPTOSPERMUM and BANKSIA.
 * In 1958, Truchanas became the first person in recorded history to kayak the length of the dangerous [|Serpentine] and [|Gordon Splits].
 * Most of Truchanas' early photographs were lost when his house was destroyed in the [|Hobart bushfire] in 1967.
 * However, over the next five years, he substantially rebuilt his collection of photos of the Lake Pedder area. Though, as a clerk temporarily employed by the Hydro Electricity Commission, Truchanas was forbidden to speak about the increasing controversy surrounding the impending damming, his photographs began to play an important role in publicity for the campaign.
 * He was once quoted as stating "This vanishing world is beautiful beyond our dreams and contains in itself rewards and gratifications never found in an artificial landscape or man-made objects."
 * Some of his photographs have been turned into postage stamps by [|Australia Post], and a canoe used by Truchanas, and several other possessions, are part of the [|National Library of Australia]'s National Historical Collection.
 * = Born to be wild =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: arial,verdana,tahoma,geneva,sans-serif,serif; font-size: small;">August 19, 2003 By Anna King Murdoch
 * //Image: COURTESY ABC TV//

Peter Dombrovskis's photograph of Rock Island bend, which was central to the Franklin River campaign. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,tahoma,geneva,sans-serif,serif; font-size: small;">**"A new film examines the entwined lives of two Baltic photographers whose images spurred the conservation movement and helped save Tasmania's wilderness. By** Anna King Murdoch**.** > **Peter Dombrovskis**
 * //When you go out there you don't get away from it all, you get back to it all. You come home to what's important. You come home to yourself.//
 * //When you go out there you don't get away from it all, you get back to it all. You come home to what's important. You come home to yourself.//

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,verdana,tahoma,geneva,sans-serif,serif; font-size: small;">"Scott Millwood was conscious of the great landscape photographers Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis for most of his life before making his film **Wildness**." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ===<span style="background-image: url(">SG12. [|South West Tasmania] Strathgordon, TAS, Australia=== Described by the IUCN as "One of the last sizable areas in the temperate part of the world to retain its natural condition...One of the finest natural areas in the world". It is a UN Biosphere Reserve and one of the great remaining wilderness areas in the world. The last complete (undeveloped) temperate coast in the world. The south west has a great variety of spectacular landforms. It contains a very rich flora and fauna organised into such diverse ecosystems as sedgelands, temperate rainforests and high montane moorlands to alpine shrubberies and grasslands. The area is spectacular for its rugged scenery in a largely untouched wilderness area. Sarah (Settlement) Island penal colony in Macquarie Harbour. Aboriginal middens at Louisa Bay. Possible Aboriginal huts.
 * "With this one-hour documentary, which recently won the audience award for best documentary at the Sydney Film Festival, Millwood has exposed the epic story of two of Tasmania's major conservation heroes - a story hardly known outside Tasmania until now.
 * "The convergence of the two men's lives is almost incredible: both migrated from the ravaged Baltic states after the war, an experience that left their senses open to the pristine, peaceful beauty of their new country; one was a father figure to the other; both became such original and accomplished photographers that their images were used not only to inspire the establishment of a conservation movement in Tasmania and on the mainland but as a weapon in its cause.
 * "Both experienced a sense of terrible failure. The worst was the damming of Lake Pedder - "my Pedder", as Truchanas called the serene high lake with the white shore of which he took hundreds of photographs and which he fought so hard to save."
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===<span style="background-image: url(">SG13. [|Western Tasmania] Strathgordon, TAS, Australia=== Western Tasmania is significant as an area of high wilderness quality and for its importance in maintaining existing natural processes (Criterion A.2). Due to its size and largely natural state, it is one of the last great temperate wilderness areas in Australia and one of few such areas in the southern hemisphere, and includes both forested and alpine wilderness. The area is thus highly significant for its wilderness values.
 * Western Tasmania is important for natural landscapes and undisturbed catchments. It is a large, relatively undisturbed area with topographic and catchment integrity where natural processes continue largely unmodified by human intervention (Criterion A.2).
 * It is large enough in area and has sufficient geological, landform, habitat and biological diversity to allow all natural ecosystem processes to continue undisturbed. It includes several undisturbed forested catchments, which are now rare in Australia.

The area is thus important as a place for the maintenance of genetic diversity, continued natural evolution of the biota, and for scientific studies in physical and biotic cycles, including pedogenesis, karst formation, nutrient cycles, hydrology, plant succession, food chains etc. As such, the area is also significant as a benchmark area in which natural processes may be studied and as a baseline for ecosystem management.
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