March 2002: Tasmania
Attending a meeting in Hobart before a coach trip to Cape Grim and the Baseline CO2 station; then exploring Tasmania by hire car.
Category: Tasmania 2002
Hobart – Wrest Point Hotel
We had been booked into the Wrest Point Hotel which is situated right beside the River Derwent. The lower section of the building is a...
Hobart – Town and River
Hobart is on the tidal part of the River Derwent. The Wrest Point Hotel was situated just east of the University and south of the...
Going to Cape Grim
At the end of the meeting we were given the option of visiting the CSIRO Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (CG BAPS) which first...
CSIRO Cape Grim Station
Cape Grim is just south of the isolated north-west tip (Woolnorth Point) of Tasmania. As a premier monitoring stations in the World Meteorological Organisation –...
Mount Field National Park
Having got back from Cape Grim on the Saturday, on Sunday I drove to Mount Field National Park which is about 82 km (51 miles)...
Lake St Clair and Franklin National Parks
A significant fraction of the western half of Tasmania is preserved as National Parks. The Tasmanian Wilderness covers around one fifth of Tasmania’s total area...
Port Arthur
Port Arthur is on the Tasman Peninsula, east of Hobart. From 1833 to 1877 it was a penal settlement where the convicts were employed in...