The Discovery of Bass Strait
The Discovery of Bass Strait

Author: George Bass

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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The Discovery of the Bass Strait is the account of the discovery of the landform based on explorer George Bass's personal journal. The strait was named after George Bass, after he and Matthew Flinders sailed across it while circumnavigating Van Diemen's Land (now named Tasmania) in the Norfolk in 1798–99. Contents: "A. Biographical Note. B. Journal. B.1 December, 1797. B.2 January,1798. B.3 February, 1798. C. General Remarks. D. Memorandum."

An Expedition through Bass's Strait
An Expedition through Bass's Strait

Author: Matthew Flinders

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13:

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Bass Strait is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, except for the land border across Boundary Islet). Excerpt: "NARRATIVE of an Expedition in the Colonial sloop Norfolk, from Port Jackson, through the Strait which separates Van Diemen's Land from New Holland, and from thence round the South Cape back to Port Jackson, completing the circumnavigation of the former Island, with some remarks on the coasts and harbors, by Matthew Flinders, 2nd lt, H.M.S. Reliance.*"

From the Edge
From the Edge

Author: Mark McKenna

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2016-10-03

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0522862608

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In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat broke apart in a storm. Their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove were stranded more than 500 kilometres southeast in Bass Strait. To rescue their mates and to save themselves the 19 men must walk 700 kilometres north to Sydney. That remarkable walk is a story of endurance but also of unexpected Aboriginal help. From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories recounts four such extraordinary and largely forgotten stories: the walk of shipwreck survivors; the founding of a 'new Singapore' in western Arnhem Land in the 1840s; Australia's largest industrial development project nestled amongst outstanding Indigenous rock art in the Pilbara; and the ever-changing story of James Cook's time in Cooktown in 1770. This new telling of the central drama of Australian history ;the encounter between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, may hold the key to understanding this land and its people.