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Free from HobartEguide.com HobartEguide obart is the second oldest capital city in Australia and Hsits between Mt Wellington and the Derwent estuary. Hobart was declared in 1812 and made the capital of Van Diemen's Land. Hobart developed as a whaling port and as a centre of ship building. Downtown Hobart is around Sullivans Cove on the Derwent River, a busy area for ships of all sizes. And the end point of the famous Sydney to Hobart sailing race held every January. Hobart Places Alexandra Battery Alexandra Battery is near the Shot Tower. It was built in 1885 to defend Hobart from possible invasion, and was named in honour of Princess Alexandra of Denmark. It has fine views over the Derwent River. Anglesea Barracks Anglesea Barracks is the oldest military headquarters still occupied in Australia. The Barracks were ordered by Governor Macquarie in 1811 and are still used by the military. Davey Street. Battery Point This was one of the first areas of Hobart to be settled and it contains some stately colonial housing, now mostly used as up-market accommodation or as restaurants. Comprehensive Hobart Information available at HobartEguide.com Cenotaph The Cenotaph is a prominent monument, on a hill overlooking Macquarie Point and the Yacht Club. General Post Office The magnificent General Post Office is in the heart of Hobart. It was from this building on 8th March 1912 that Roald Amundsen sent his telegram to Kelly's Steps Runnymede confirm to the world that he had indeed reached the South Pole Leading up from Salamanca Runnymede is a stately home and returned safely. Place is a flight of steps. These built in about 1836 and now are Kelly's Steps, built in 1839 by restored by the National Trust. 61 Franklin Square the adventurer James Kelly to Bay Road, New Town. (03 6278 connect Salamanca Place with 1269). In the centre of Hobart, Battery Point. They lead into diagonally opposite the Kelly Street. Penitententiary Chapel Tasmanian Travel and Historic Site Information Centre on the corner of Davey and Elizabeth Streets, A collection of redbrick buildings is Franklin Square, with Sir John which are some of the oldest in Franklin standing at its centre. Tasmania. The Penitentiary He was Governor of Van Chapel was completed in 1835 Diemen's Land from 1837 until and used for compulsory church 1843, and was also a polar services for convicts. Corner of explorer. He perished while trying Brisbane and Campbell Streets. to locate the North-West Passage. Salamanca Place Old Hobart Gaol Hobart has a long association Salamanca Place consists of a with Antarctic exploration, being splendid row of Georgian In the northern part of the city is the closest Australian city to the sandstone warehouses dating Old Hobart Gaol, with its southernmost continent, so you back to the 1830s, now Penitentiary Chapel. This was will also find in this square converted into cafes, craft shops, constructed in 1831, and later, photographs of the 1898 - 1900 galleries and restaurants. Antarctic Expedition led by part of it was converted into law Carstens Borchgrevink. courts. The Chapel continued in use until 1961 and the Courts Shot Tower This was the first expedition to were used until 1983. There are underground passages, cells for The Shot Tower was built in 1870 spend a winter in Antarctica. The and, of course, its purpose was members are pictured paying solitary confinement and an execution yard. the manufacture of lead shot by their respects to Sir John the process of dropping molten Franklin in this spot upon their lead from a height so that it return to Hobart in April 1900. Parliament House would form spherical pellets and One member, the physicist Louis solidify before hitting the ground. Bernacchi, was from Hobart. Parliament House is adjacent to The tower is 48 metres high. It is Salamanca Place. It was no longer used for the International Wall of designed by the famous convict manufacture of lead shot, but architect John Lee Archer as a offers a good lookout over the Friendship customs house and built by city. Channel Highway about 10 convicts between 1835 and 1840. km south of Hobart. The International Wall of Only when self-government was Friendship is at the granted in 1856 did it become the Yacht Club Commonwealth Government home of the Tasmanian Centre providing a tribute to the Parliament. There is a museum The Yacht Club, just north of the migrants who have settled in on the ground floor and a popular city centre, is where the famous Tasmania. 188 Collins Street, lawn outside in Parliament Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race Hobart. Square. finishes. Comprehensive Hobart Information available at HobartEguide.com St. David's Cathedral The building of St. David's Cathedral, commenced in 1868, the handsome edifice being the work of George Bodley. It is generally thought to be his best creation outside England. There is a small museum in the cloisters. 125 Macquarie Street. Tasman Bridge The Tasman Bridge lies a little over one kilometre north of the city centre. It was the scene of a disaster when, at 9.27pm on 5th January 1975, the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra crashed Cascade Brewery Mercury Print Museum into one of the piers and brought down a 127-metre section of the The Cascade Brewery is The Mercury is Hobart's bridge. Australia's oldest brewery, newspaper, dating from 5th founded in 1824, and is another January 1854, and the Mercury Four vehicles were on the example of splendid nineteenth Print Museum is in Ingle Hall on section at the time and the five century architecture, especially the corner of Macquarie and people in those vehicles died, as it stands against the backdrop Argyle Streets. The museum together with seven crew of Mt. Wellington. There is a adjoins the newspaper's main members of the Lake Illawarra. small museum here and outside printing operation. It is housed in there are some fine gardens, with a fine old Georgian building Two cars were left suspended tours available. 140 Cascade dating from somewhere between 1811 and 1814 and probably precariously over the gap in the Road. owned originally by a man named bridge, but their occupants Edward Lord who sold it to his escaped. Cadbury Factory friend John Ingle in 1831. For three years from 1846, it was the Hobart Fun Places North of the city is the Cadbury site of the Hutchins School for Factory, established in 1921. This Boys. Around the turn of the factory uses over a million litres century it was a 'coffee palace' Alpenrail of milk a week. Tours are and later it became a boarding available. Cadbury Road (03 house, before being purchased Alpenrail consists of a model 6249 0333). by the Mercury in 1962. Swiss village and railway and is located in the north of the city not Narryna Heritage far from the Cadbury factory. 82 Abbotsfield Road, West Museum Claremont. Narryna Heritage Museum is housed in one of the early Hobart Antarctic Adventure colonial homes, dating from 1836. It now contains a collection Experience the Antarctic with of furniture, china, paintings and displays of the fauna and flora, fine arts. 103 Hampden Road. geology and history. The displays bring the Antarctic Maritime Museum of Tasmanian Museum and to life and includes visits to a field Tasmanian Art Gallery camp, experience sub zero temperatures, ski in a blizzard A collection of maritime The Tasmanian Museum and Art and see live images from the Gallery has a collection of fauna, Australian Antarctic Base. memorabilia and other items to illustrate Tasmanian maritime gemstones, sea life and modern Salamanca Square (03 6220 Australian art. 40 Macquarie 8220). history. Corner of Davey Street and Argyle Street. Street. Comprehensive Hobart Information available at HobartEguide.com Tasmanian Distillery and Hobart Parks Hobart Wild Places Museum Bororong Wildlife Park Mount Nelson At the point in Davey Street where it curves round to join Animals from around Tasmania Mount Nelson is where the Signal Macquarie Street, you will find can be seen and heard here. Station was built in 1811 to the Tasmanian Distillery and Brighton. announce the arrival of any ships Museum. Sullivans Cove Whisky sighted. It was linked with other is produced here, in what was Royal Tasmanian signal stations, so that a formerly the Gasworks. Tours message could be passed operate continuously and Botanical Gardens between here and Port Arthur discounted products are available within twenty minutes. Inside the in the shop. The Royal Tasmanian Botanical tiny old Station building, you can Gardens are within walking learn the codes used for the Another part of the Gasworks, distance, about two kilometres signals. There is an excellent you will observe, has been north of the city centre. There is a view from here and a tearoom is converted into a high-class hotel, path running beside the railway available. There is also a walking while other areas serve as which leads to the lower entrance track, so that you can, if you restaurants and shops. to the gardens and which will wish, take the bus up its twisting avoid walking along the main route and return on foot down the road. slopes of the mountain. These gardens were established in 1818, only two years after Australia's first botanical gardens in Sydney, and they are some of the most pleasant gardens in the country. St. David's Park St. David's Park was once a graveyard and there are still tombstones dotted about it which make interesting reading. Mt. Wellington Considering its proximity to the One of the great sights of Hobart city centre, it is a very pleasant is the view from the top of Mt.

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