Stephen, James
Stirling community
Stodart’s Hotel, Hobart
Stoke Rivers, Devon
Stoke Rivers, North Motton
Stokell, Dr George
Stokes, Lieutenant Pringle
Strahan
Styx Forest
Sullivan, Bruce
sun fish
Sunday Companion
sunstroke
Surrey Theatre, London
Swan River
Swansea
History Room
Swansea Hotel
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels
Sydney see also Port Jackson
arrival of Kemp in (1795)
description of
Sydney Heads
Sydney Opera House
takahe
Takudo, Admiral Tatsuo
Tamar (ship)
Tamar River
Tangiers
Tanzania
Tapte (chief of the lagoon people)
Taraba, the Nasty One
Tas (a birder)
Tasman, Abel Janszoon
dies in disgrace
discovery of Tasmania (1642)
learning sailing
Tasmanian tiger
Tasman Peninsula
Tasman Sea
Tasmania see also Van Diemen’s Land
Castra settlement
European population
first sighted by a European (1642)
fugitives in
health resort
mainland Australia and
map
mineral deposits
name change (1856)
oldest human habitation
remoteness
self-government
time
200th anniversary of settlement
Tasmania Museum
‘Tasmaniacs’
Tasmanian cave spider
Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
Tasmanian emus
Tasmanian Government Thylacine Bounty Scheme
Tasmanian Kennel Club
Tasmanian Tiger Research Centre
Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)
Tasmanian Times
Tasmaniana Library, Hobart
Tatum, Miss (governess)
Taylor, Charles
Taylor, George P.
Teddington
Teddy (Ivy’s brother-in-law)
Telegraph Hotel, St Helen’s
temperance societies
Temperata Antipodum Nobis Incognita
Terra Australis Incognita
terrorism
Theatre Royal, Hobart
Thingvellir, Iceland
Thomas, Captain Bartholomew
Thompson, Arthur
Thompson, Constance
Thompson, Estelle Merle
Thompson, John Willis
thylacine see Tasmanian tiger Tierney, Mike
Tierra del Fuego
Tiger Man
tiger-snakes
Times, The
Timler
Tinderbox, Hobart
Toarra Marra Monah
Todd, Ann
Togari
Tolstoy, Count Leo
Tom Thumb (a rowing boat)
Tomkinson, Sergeant
Tonbridge School, Kent
Tongerlongetter
Black Line and
burial
death
Flinders Island, on
loss of his forearm
Robinson and
Tongs’ butter factory, North Motton
Tongs, Laurie
Toorah, SS
Total Abstinence societies
Tourism Tasmania
Tragedy Hill, Campbell Town
Tramp, Count
transportation
Travers, Clara
Travers, Matthew
Travers, William
Trawlulwuy nation
Trefoil Island
Triabunna
trial by jury
Trollope, Anthony
Australia and New Zealand
Trollope, Reverend William
Trowenna (Aboriginal name for Tasmania)
Truganini
appearance
death
Last Tasmanian
lives with Mrs Dandridge
shell necklaces
William Lanne and
Turner, Liz
Twain, Mark
Tyreddeme people
Ulverstone
Ulverstone Gentlemen’s Club
Ulverstone museum
Union Jack
United States
University of Tasmania
Updike, John
Vale of Rasselas
Van Diemen, Anthony
Van Diemen’s Land see also Tasmania
alcohol, always linked with
convicts sent to
French scientific force mapping
independence (1825)
island
name changed to Tasmania (1856)
occupied to prevent French occupation
penal colony
probation system
Van Diemen’s Land Company
Venn, Chrissie
Venus (a brig)
Victoria, Australia
Victoria Cross
Viney, Margaret
Wainewright, Thomas
Wales
Walker, George Washington
wallabies
Wallarrange tribe
Ward, John
Ward, Mary Augusta (‘Mrs Humphrey Ward’ née Arnold),
Helbeck of Bannidale
Warner Brothers
Warner, Jack
Warren, Bev
Washington, George
wasp, gall-forming
Waterloo Hotel, Hobart
Waterloo Point
wattle
black
silver
Watts, Jobi
Waugh, Alec: The Loom of Youth
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Webb, Edna
Webb, Murray
Wedding Rehearsal (film)
Weindorfer, Gustav
Weldborough
Wellington, Duke of
Wells, H.G.
West Devon Agricultural Association
West, John
Western Tiers
Westward Ho!
whales
Whiley, Mr and Mrs Horace
Whitbread, Samuel
White, Edward
White, Patrick: A Fringe of Leaves
Whitemark, Flinders Island
wilderness
William Potter & Son
Williams, Cecil
Williams, Geoff
Williams, Patrick
Williamson, Christine
Williamson, Henry
Willis, Fred
Wilson’s Promontory
Windeward Bound (a brigantine)
Windschuttle, Keith
The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume 1, Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1847
Wineglass Bay
Wolders, Robert
Wombat Glen
wombats
Woodman
Woolnorth, near Cape Grim
Woretermoeteyenner
World Heritage Area
Wrest Point Hotel and Casino, Hobart
Wright, Peter
Wybalenna, Flinders Island
Wynyard
Yarde, Devon
York Town
European settlement
Young, Amy (née Kemp; Kemp’s daughter)
Young, Lieutenant Wharton Thomas (Kemp’s son-in-law)
Ypres
1 Flinders was also the first to give the name Australia to what had previously been New Holland.
2 The response of Kemp’s father may have inspired these lines in William Moncrieff’s 1830 play, Van Diemen’s Land: ‘Hence from my doors! I do renounce – di
sclaim you! The husband of a convict shall be no son of mine!’
3 In an unlikely story passed on by his daughter, Kemp instantly announced to his wife: ‘My dear, the Colonel is sending in his papers and I am buying his commission.’
‘Very well, my dear, if you want to be Colonel of the Regiment do so, but you will have to choose between the regiment and me. Much as I love you, I will not face three months more of seasickness on the way home for any man on earth.’
‘Very well, dear, then I will give up the regiment.’
4 In Tasmania, it remains a badge of honour to drink like a fish. Stocky batsman David Boon is still believed to hold the record for consuming 52 cans of beer on a flight to London in 1989.
5 Among the plumbers and glaziers who worked on the extension at Mount Vernon was possibly James Woodcock Graves, a former composer from Wigton who one evening in 1824 had sat down and written impromptu the first five verses of ‘D’ye ken John Peel’. In 1842, he was detained for apparent insanity at an asylum in New Norfolk.
6 In the 1420s, Chinese eunuch admirals accurately mapped south-west and north Australia. The first Briton to reach mainland Australia was William Dampier in January 1688, north of Broome.
7 Meredith’s eldest son, also George, after violently quarrelling with his father, went to live on Kangaroo Island with an Aboriginal girl, Sal. He was killed by a jealous Aborigine.
8 While they were camped in Elizabeth Street, Kemp’s friend the artist John Glover took some sketches and used them in various paintings.
9 North Motton’s most famous son is A.W. Knight, an engineer of surpassing ability, who in a paper before his death remarked on the oddity of ‘North Motton’ in the absence of any other ‘Motton’. The name possibly derived from one William Walter Motton who settled thereabouts in 1854.
10 Part of the reclaimed land on the Hobart wharf is made up of millions of apricot stones from the jam factory.
11 GBS said of him that Edward was his favourite uncle as he never met him.