Plan of the Town of Launceston VDL from Actual Survey lithography Date 1936

Date 1936

enjoying one of the finest maritime landscape settings in the world - Sydney Harbour

Breeds in Tasmania & migrates across the Bass Strait to south eastern Australia

including highest honours at the Melbourne 1888 Centennial Exhibition

as they called the lucrative native cedars - with forest giants as big as 10 feet in diameter - may have been almost over by the 1820s

Plan of the Town of Launceston VDL from Actual Survey lithography Date 1936Creator H. W. H. Smythe Date 1833 One of the oldest cities in Australia, Launceston was settled by Europeans in 1806 and is situated on the junction of the North Esk, South Esk and Tamar rivers. Its beautiful serene setting and picturesque historic buildings today contrast with an early history if harsh frontier living, the barborous treatment of aborigines, and wholesale slaughter of seals in Bass Strait. Source: National Library of Australia