American farmer and poet Wendell Berry said of the first Europeans in North America that they came with vision, but not with sight. They came with vision of former places but not the sight to see what ...
The Royal Society of Tasmania has owned an album of Owen Stanley's maritime artworks since 1900, but its delicate nature ...
The University of Cambridge’s collection of thylacines, sent from Morton Allport in 1869 and 1871, represent the UK’s biggest collection of this species known to originate from a single person. A ...
It evokes one of the most powerful scenes in Tasmanian history. On January 7, 1832, the last 16 Aboriginal warriors from the Oyster Bay-Big River resistance walked down Elizabeth Street in Hobart, ...
On December 26, 1847, a small group of Aboriginal people sat in the Lieutenant-Governor’s box at Hobart’s Theatre Royal watching a new pantomime. A local newspaper reported how “the natives … seemed ...
In this web site companion to the fourth episode in the fourth season of "Anyplace Wild," users can learn about sea kayaking around Tasmania, the Tasmanian devil, and Tasmania's whaling past. The web ...