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tasmania: dismal endings without new beginnings

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dave

…Now the end was near for the Tasmanian race. The forty-four survivors- twelve men, twenty-two women, ten young people – were taken to an unused penal settlement at Oyster Cove, twenty five miles from Hobart and only fifteen miles from … Continue reading →

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tasmania: breaking the immemorial monotony

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Dave

…Inevitably, this forceful community, gradually spreading from its seashore settlements, came into contact with the elusive aborigines of the forest. It was known from the start that they existed. When Dutch sailor Abel Tasman arrived off the southeast coast in … Continue reading →

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Tasmania: seeding the fatal confrontation

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Dave

…Once it was realized that Tasmania was an island, it acquired a peculiar usefulness to the Europeans- more specifically, to the British, the pacemakers of European progress then and the most irrepressible expansionists the world has known. When the war … Continue reading →

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