The ship George III sailed from Woolwich, England for Hobart with 220 male convicts, guards, their families and crew, totalling 308, on 14 December 1834 under the command of William Moxey. On 27 ...

The SS 'Dicky' was a coastal trader that operated in and around Australia from at least 1887 until its loss in 1893. The details of its early operation are unknown but by 1886 it was registered in ...

The annual Finalised Priority Assessment List (FPAL) is the list of species, ecological communities and key threatening processes that have been prioritised by the Threatened Species Scientific ...

This search page allows species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) to be compared against taxonomy, State and Territory Government listing status ...

Flying-fox camps, survey date: ...

At midday on 19 March 1790 HMS Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet, was wrecked on the coral reef off Slaughter Bay. She had led the fleet of eleven ships that set out from England in 1787 carrying ...

The Portland Maru was owned by the Tamai Shosen K.K. Line and was built at Kobe in 1919 by the Kawasaki Dockyard Company. The vessel had a gross tonnage of 5,865 tons and length 385 feet (117.35m), ...

The river steamer Nubeena was totally wrecked at Roaring Beach, South Arm on the night of 7 October 1910, while on one of her regular voyages from Tasman Peninsula to Hobart. Nubeena had been expected ...

Coral Sea Reefs, cays and herbivorous fish of the Marion Plateau ...

Delayed on passage from Sydney by strong winds, short of provisions and anxious to make port. Was misled on approaches to Port Phillip by lights of 'Portland' , stranded an hour earlier. Panic by some ...

On 7 November 1824 the ship Caroline, Captain Daniel Taylor, sailed from Sydney on a whaling and sealing voyage to the ‘South Seas’. On 15 February 1825 the vessel dropped anchor at the south-western ...