About 70 minutes drive from the Tasmanian capital city of Hobart is the Tasman Peninsula. European settlement on the peninsula commenced with the establishment of a convict timber station in 1830. By 1840 over 2,000 prisoners and staff were accommodated at various locations on the peninsula with the main prison complex at Port Arthur.
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One of world’s longest annual canoe races, the Murray Marathon covers a distance of 404km in five days, taking paddlers from Yarrawonga through to Swan Hill in Victoria, Australia.
This event sees the world’s premier one design keelboat racing yachts sailed in the superb sailing waters off Fremantle Western Australia. The exciting Audi Etchells Worlds will offer spectacular sailing action from the 80-strong fleet of world-class Etchells.
Huw Kingston of Wild Horizons has announced today that the Paddle Polaris events which have been happening since 2002 will not run in 2007.
Racing at the 17th annual Airlie Beach Race Week starts on Friday 10th August in Pioneer Bay and climaxes on Thursday 17th 2006. The Whitsunday Sailing Club event will feature 93 monohulls racing in IRC, IRC Cruising, Premier Cruising, Performance Handicap, Sports Boat and Cruising classes.
The Multiplex Avon Descent, Western Australia’s famous boat race down the Avon River, is expected to be bigger than ever this year, with the introduction of a corporate entry category for competitors.
The Volvo 60 Andrew Short Marine-Club Marine has finished the 1850 nautical mile Queensland Government South Pacific Boomerang Melbourne to Vanuatu race, winning line honours, her division and setting a race record of seven days seventeen hours and six minutes.
Large pods of whales from the depths of Antarctica have been spotted at Flinder’s Bay near Augusta. Known as the Bay of Whales, Flinder’s Bay is one of the first places on the Western Australian coast where whales are sighted at the beginning of their migration.
In the inaugural Queensland Government sponsored South Pacific Boomerang Yacht Race series, the Melbourne to Vanuatu race, the fleet has split early in the 1850 mile passage, billed by some as the Great Escape (that being from a freezing Melbourne winter).
The first offshore leg of the Queensland Government South Pacific Boomerang, Melbourne Vanuatu started today (Sun 2nd July 2006) at 12 midday off Portsea Pier. With an 1850 nm journey ahead where yachties can shed their clothes as they shed the latitudes.
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