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Bad Bay
Now called Cloudy Bay on the south of Bruny Island.
Wells, William Henr, A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies, Sydney, 1848, p.40.
Bismarck
Renamed Collins Vale during World War I. About 10 km west of Hobart.
Camm, J.C.R. and McQuilton, John(ed.), Australians, a Historical Atlas, Sydney, 1987, p.229.
Boreel Island
Tasman's name, after a member of the Batavia Council. In 1773 Captain Tobias
Furneaux changed the name to The Fryers; it is now called The Friars; off
the south east extremity of Bruny Island.
Kenny, John, Before the First Fleet Europeans in Australia 1606-1777, Kenhurst, 1995, p.155.
Brighton
So named by Governor Macquarie in 1821. It is now known as Pontville, about
20 km north of Hobart.
Emmett, E. T., Tasmania by Road and Track, Melbourne, 1954, p.16.
Brown's River
Now known as Kingston, a Hobart suburb. Probably named after the botanist, Robert Brown.
Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia : in ten volumes, Sydney, 1995, vol.5, p.195.
Clyde
This village was renamed Bothwell in 1824 at the suggestion of Governor
Arthur, about 60km north west of Hobart.
Australian Council of National Trusts, Historic Places of Australia, 2vols., Sydney and Melbourne, 1978, vol.2, p.67.
Coal River
Now called Richmond, about 20km north east of Hobart.
Emmett, E.T., Tasmania by Road and Track, Melbourne, 1954, p.158.
Domble Bay
D'Urville's name for Ralphs Bay, near Hobart.
Rosenman, Helen (trans. and ed.), Two Voyages to the South Seas by Captain(later Rear-Admiral) Jules S-C
Dumont D'Urville, Melbourne, 1987, p.167.
Fleurieu Bay
Now called Oyster Bay on Maria Island.
Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia : in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, Vol.8, p.430.
Great Bluff
d'Entrecasteaux's name for Mount Direction, just north of Hobart.
Horner, Frank, French reconnaissance : Baudin in Australia 1801-1803, Melbourne, 1987, p.195.
Green Duckholes
Later named Green Ponds, now called Kempton, about 35 km north of Hobart.
Emmett, E. T., Tasmania by Road and Track, Melburne, 1954, p.18.
Green Point
Name changed to Bridgewater, presumably because of a causeway built in
the 1830s by convict labour. Just north of Hobart.
Aplin, Graeme , Foster, S.G.,Mckernan,Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.359.
Green Ponds
Earlier called Green Duckholes, now known as Kempton, about 40 km north
of Hobart.
Emmett, E. T., Tasmania by Road and Track, Melborne, 1954, p.18.
Hobart Town
Named after Lord Hobart, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in
1804. Sometimes shortened to Hobarton, it was abbreviated by act of parlianment
to Hobart in 1881. See Ferguson, 2265.
Aplin, Graeme , Foster, S.G.,Mckernan,Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.359.
Humphreyville
Named after A.W.H. Humphrey, a mineralogist who settled here in 1812. It
is now known as Bushy Park, about 40km north west of Hobart.
Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Book of the Road , sydney, 1999, p.217.
Iron-Pot Island
Now called Betsey Island, about 25 km south east of Hobart.
Evans, George William, Geographical, historical, and topographical description of Van Diemen's
Land, London, 1822, p.36.
Kangaroo Point
Now the Hobart suburb of Bellerive, meaning a beautiful river.
Applaton, Richard and Barbara, The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places, Melbourne, 1992, p.28.
Kangaroo Valley
Since 1922 this Hobart Suburb has been called Lenah Valley.There are at
least two other Kangaroo Valleys and Lenah means Kangaroo.
Applaton, Richard and Barbara, The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places, Melbourne, 1992, p.170.
Laycock's Lagoon
In 1807 Thomas Laycock so named this lake, but it is now called Wood's
Lake after Captain Patrick Wood, an early landowner. About 90km north of
Hobart.
Australian Council of National Trusts, Historic Places of Australia, 2vols., sydney and Melbourne, 1978, p.62.
Lightwood Bottom
Now called Geeveston after a local orchadist. About 60 km south west of Hobart.
Horwitz, Grahame, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1964, p.413.
Lumber Yard
The eastern extremity of Hobart in 1827.
Rosenman, Helen (trans. and ed.), Two Voyages to the South Seas by Captain(later Rear-Admiral) Jules S-C Dumont D'Urville, Melbourne, 1987, p.187.
Molesworth
So named for an early settler but now called Malbina, about 10 km north
west of Hobart.
Martin, A. E., Place names in Victoria, and Tasmania, Sydney, 1944, p.100.
Montagne du Plateur
So named by D'Entrecasteaux in 1792, now called Mount Wellington near Hobart.
Also known as Mount Skiddaw and Mount Table.
Horwitz, Grahame,The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand,, Sydney, 1964, p.690.
Mount Skiddaw
So named by Commodore Hayes in 1793, now called Mount Wellington near Hobart.
Horwitz, Grahame, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1964, p.690.
Mount Table
So named by Matthew Flinders in 1798, now called Mount Wellington near
Hobart.
Horwitz, Grahame, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1964, p.690.
North Bay
So named by Beautemps-Beaupr?, now called Frederick Henry Bay, about 20
km east of Hobart.
Horner, Frank, French reconnaissance : Baudin in Australia 1801-1803, Melbourne, 1987, p.195.
O' Brien's Bridge
Now known as Glenorchy, a Hobart suburb.
Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Book of the Road, Sydney, 1999, p. 221.
Point Riche
D'Entrecasteaux's name for Simpsons Point on Bruny Island.
Duyker, Edward and Mary, Bruny d'Entrecasteaux's Voyage to Australia & the Pacific, 1791-1793, Melbourne, 2001, p.42..
Port Monthazin
So named by Baudin, later named Spring Bay after a kangaroo dog, now called
Triabunna, about 65 km north east of Hobart.
Martin,A.E., Place names in Victoria, and Tasmania, sydney, 1944, p.106.
Prince of Wales Bay
Now called Tasman Bay about 45 km east of Hobart.
Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia : in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol.8, p.424.
Queenborough
Now called Sandy Bay, the Hobart suburb.
Levey, George Collins, Hutchinson's Australasion Encyclopaedia, London, 1982, p.304.
Quoin Island
Now called Wedge Island about 40 km south east of Hobart.
Macquarie, Lachlan, Journals of his tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land 1810-1822, Sydney, 1956, map 2.
Rabbit Island
Now called Wybalenna Island just west of Flinders Island.
Plomley, N.J.B., Weep in Silence :A History of the Flinders Island Aboriginal Settlement ; with the Flinders Island journal of George Augustus Robinson, 1835-1839, Blubber Head Press, 1987, map, p.xviii.
Rest-down
A name subsequently abbreviated to Risdon, the Hobart suburb.
Mundy, Godfrey Charles, Our antipodes, or, Residence and rambles in the Australasian colonies :
with a glimpse of the gold fields, vol.3, London:Richard Bentley, 1852, p.163.
Riviere du Nord
So named in 1793 by Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux, it was renamed the Derwent
in the following year by Lieutenant John Hayes.
Emmett, E. T., Tasmania by Road and Track, Melbourne, 1954, p.161.
San Diego
For a few years after 1888 Darlington, on Maria Island, was known as San Diego after Diego Bernacchi, an Italian entrepreneur.
McGowan, Barry, Australian ghost towns, South Melbourne, 2002, pp.186.
Scantling Plains
So called because a runaway convict of that name was killed there. Renamed
York Plains by Governor Macquarie in 1811 in honour of the Duke of York.
About 65 km north of Hobart.
Macquarie, Lachlan, Journals of his tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land 1810-1822, Sydney, 1956, p.64.
Sorell Plains
Later named Macquarie, then the Lower Clyde and, finally, Hamilton in 1824.
Near the junction of the Clyde and Derwent rivers.
Reader's Digest,Reader's Digest Book of the Road, Sydney, 1999, p.213.
Spring Bay
Named after a kangaroo dog, earlier named Port Monthazin by Baudin; now called Triabunna, about 65 km north east of Hobort.
Martin, A. E., Place names in Victoria, and Tasmania, sydney, 1944, p.106.
St. Aignan Island
Now called Sloping Island. The earlier name was in honour of the Lieutenant
of D'Entrecasteaux's Recherche. About 25 km east of Hobart.
Jules S-C Dumont D'Urville(Rosenman, Helen (trans. and ed.)), Two Voyages to the South Seas by Captain(later Rear-Admiral), Melbourne, 1987, p.515.
Stainsforth's Cove
Now called New Town, the Hobart suburb.
Howitt, William, Land, Labour, and Gold, or Two Years in Victoria with visits to Sydney
and Van Diemens Land, kilmore, 1972, p.731.
Storm Bay
Named by Tasman; it is now called Adventure Bay, to the east of Bruny Island.
Bach, John, Historical journal of events at Sydney and at sea, 1787-1792 / by John Hunter ; with further accounts by Governor Arthur Phillip, Lieutenant P. G. King, and Lieutenant H. L. Ball ; edited by John Bach., Sydney, 1968, p.84.
Stanley Point
Now called North Point on the north of Flinders Island.
Plomley, N.J.B.,Weep in Silence :A History of the Flinders Island Aboriginal Settlement
; with the Flinders Island journal of George Augustus Robinson, 1835-1839, Blubber Head Press, 1987, map, p.XVIII..
Sullivan's Cove
The original name of the site of Hobart.
Martin, A. E., Place names in Victoria, and Tasmania, sydney, 1944, p.105.
Swilly Islands
So named by Tobias Furneaux after his birth place near Portsmouth but Tasman
had named them Pedia Branca and this name is now used; about 25km south
of Tasmania.
Kerr, John, A Crystal Century The History of Proserpine's Sugar Mill, its Farms and
its People, Proserpine, 1997, p.175.
Table Mountain
Flinder's name for Mount Wellington near Hobart; he thought it looked the
Table Mountain at the Cape of Good Hope.
Jules S-C Dumont D'Urville(Rosenman, Helen (trans. and ed.)), Two Voyages to the South Seas by Captain(later Rear-Admiral), Melburne, 1987, pp.180, 192.
The Hills
This commonly used name was changed by Macquarie to Elizabeth Town in 1811. Their name was still being used in 1827, but eventually the district name of New Norfolk was given to the town. About 25km north west of Hobart.
Emmett, E. T., Tasmania by Road and Track, Melboure, 1954, p.140.
The Settlement
Later named Franklin in honour of Lady Jane Franklin, the wife of the Lieutenant Governor. About 35km south west of Hobart.
Horwitz, Grahame, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1964, p.397.
Western Mountains
Evans's name for the King William Range about 100 km north west of Hobart.
Evans, George William, Geographical, historical, and topographical description of Van Diemen's
Land, London, 1822, p.34.
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Willaumez Island
So named by d'Entrecasteaux after a member of his expedition, now called Betsey Island; north east of Bruny Island.
Duyker, Edward and Mary, Bruny d'Entrecasteaux's Voyage to Australia & the Pacific, 1791-1793, Melbourne, 2001, p. 154,
William Pitt's Island
So named by Commodore Sir John Hayes apparently ignorant of Admiral d'Entrecasteaux's
earlier naming of Bruni or Bruny Island near the mouth of the Derwent.
Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia, Sydney, 1963, vol.2, p.171.
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