Last stranded whale on Perkins Island dies
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- Last stranded whale on Perkins Island dies
- National and world champions compete in Tasmania
- Cods to Darwin: we convicts thrived
- Tasmania’s Australian of the Year award recipients announced
- Bracing for fire threat – STATE’S TEMPERATURES SET T SAR
Last stranded whale on Perkins Island dies
United Press International
26 (UPI) — The last surviving sperm whale stranded on an island off northwestern Tasmania died Sunday Australian wildlife officials said. The whale was one of a herd of 48 that stranded last week on Perkins Island. The whales many of them more than 30 feet long were first spotted Thursday night. Five were still alive Friday but three died Friday night and a fourth died at about 2 p.
National and world champions compete in Tasmania
Tasmania Examiner Australia
Boag & Son Blockbuster Weekend is here. Held on Saturday January 31 and Sunday February 1 at Beauty Point among the competitors will be five Victorian B14.
Cods to Darwin: we convicts thrived
Sydney Morning Herald Australia
Academic researchers plan to use one of the nation’s favouriteindoor pastimes – checking out family skeletons – to reconstruct acollective family tree of convict ancestry. nce authenticated an”honour roll” of convict settlers will be assembled online. First off the blocks are the 73000 convicts who landed inTasmania. The original records describing these nation builders arenot only intact but they are among the most detailed inventoriescreated “of any human beings in the 19th century” right down tothe hue of their eyes historian Janet McCalman said. A great missing link in Australian history however is whatcame after many convicts received their “tickets of leave” frompenal servitude. That is where the hobbyist historian will be ofimmense use. In the days when a convict connection was a source ofembarrassment many freed convicts changed their names in a questfor respectability.
Tasmania’s Australian of the Year award recipients announced
Australia.T Australia
1) ends here –> Tasmania’s Australian of the Year award recipients announcedHBART: A gardening icon a King of pop a street kid survivor and exceptional band leader have tonight been named as the Tasmanian recipients in the Australian of the Year Awards 2009. The Premier of Tasmania David Bartlett MP presented the recipients with their awards in a ceremony this evening and congratulated all finalists on having earned such a prestigious honour from their fellow Tasmanians. Peter Cundall AM Ronnie Burns Sam Cawthorn John Layton Hodgetts AM The Tasmanian award recipients are:The Tasmanian Australian of the Year 2009 is gardening expert Peter Cundall AM. Peter Cundall has been gardening since he was a small child and has a love of the environment. Born in Manchester he taught himself paving techniques mainly using second-hand materials wheeled from derelict buildings in an old pram.
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Bracing for fire threat – STATE’S TEMPERATURES SET T SAR
Tasmania Examiner Australia
The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast conditions of high to very high fire danger due to the high temperatures and low humidity until later in the week. Winds were expected to be moderate keeping the fire danger below the extreme rating a bureau spokeswoman said. Yesterday there were 15 fire fronts across Tasmania with all except three under control and being patrolled. At last report yesterday fire crews were still fighting fires at Macquarie Heads at Cape Sorell Hillwood on the East Tamar and Rossarden. Water-bombing helicopters fought the blaze burning in rugged terrain near Rossarden since last Thursday. They supplemented fire- fighting efforts on the ground by 50 firefighters drawn from the Tasmania Fire Service Forestry Tasmania the Parks and Wildlife Service and a private plantation company and five bulldozers. TFS incident controller Gavin Freeman said the Bell 212 helicopter with a capacity of 1400 litres was brought in for the first time yesterday to help water-bomb the inaccessible gullies.
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