Plan of the Town of Launceston VDL from Actual Survey lithography Breeds in Tasmania & migrates

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

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

it is believed

Men and women sit around a cloth laid on the grass

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

Plan of the Town of Launceston VDL from Actual Survey lithography Breeds in Tasmania & migratesCreator 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