Walking Tour

A day of Culture

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February 15th 2018
15/2/18 Today we had booked a walking tour of Hobart. Our tour guide, Lisa, gave us a good idea of some of the history surrounding some of the buildings and statues. It started on Hobart waterfront where their is a memorial dedicated to the convicts that were deported to Hobart and provided the majority of manual labour. The memorial lists the names of the first deportees to arriv ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Hobart

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more