Black Tuesday, Hobart, Tasmania - 1967
62 fatalities, 900 injuries, 1293 homes destroyed. The population of Tasmania is 44% larger now. And suburban integration with the bush greater.
1807 engraving by French explorer Charles Alexandre Lesueur shows seafaring Aboriginal people and a large canoe on the eastern shore of Schouten Island, Tasmania.
1852 map of Van Diemen's Land. Today it is Tasmania, Australia. The names of many of the regions were different then too. The population was below 70k.
Elwick Hotel, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania - c1962
Donald Campbell's boat Bluebird, he was thinking of using Lake St Clare for a World Record attempt but it was too deep for recovery.
Coles Variety Store, Elizabeth St Mall, Hobart, Tasmania - 1985
As well as having a Family Restaurant, they sold most things. Now the location of Target.
Hobart, Tasmania - 1965
Lifting span from the Floating Bridge still in place. Clarence Pool still open air. ANM Wharf still operating. Botanical Garden Train Station in use.
The last of the Port Arthur convicts was Jack Best who became a tour guide of the abandoned penal settlement following closure in 1877.
Tasmania, Australia