Portsea on Port Phillip Bay Victoria. The quarantine station buildings. The station began in 1853 and the buildings were erected 1854. Closed as a quarantine station in 1950. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Portsea on Port Phillip Bay Victoria. The quarantine station buildings. The station began in 1853 and the buildings were erected 1854. Closed as a quarantine station in 1950. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Sorrento. Pop 1,600.In 1803 Captain Collins established the convict settlement near present day Sorrento on Nepean Bay. Evan Nepean was the naval officer administrator in England who organised the sending of the First Fleet to Botany Bay in 1787. He was created a baronet in 1804 and made a Lord of the Admiralty the same year. He was remembered by the naming of Nepean Bay, the Nepean River in NSW and Nepean Bay on Kangaroo Island. Evans’ brother Nicholas Nepean was also in the marines but resigned from them in 1789 and joined the New South Wales Corps. In 1790 he arrived in the colony on the Neptune with the first contingent of NSW Corp officers. He did not fare well in the colony because of his temper and disagreement with John MacArthur. He left in 1793 and returned to England via a short stay at the Norfolk Island convict settlement. He remained in the navy until he retired in 1814. Over the years he was promoted to major and then lieutenant general. The convict settlement lasted only a few months from 9 October 1803 to 30 January 1804 and nothing of it remains but a memorial cairn erected at nearby Sullivan Bay. The last equipment and couple of residents left on 21 May 1804 except for escapee William Buckley who lived among the Aborigines for the next 32 years. The district had good limestone deposits and by 1840 several lime burning kilns were established here. By 1845 there were 17 recorded lime kilns operating. The waters of the bay had plentiful fish and some fishermen camped here from around 1840 with three Scottish Watson brothers becoming major fishermen from 1850 onwards. Portsea was the first named place here in 1843 by James Ford who took up land then. Ten years later he asked to be allowed to purchase 640 acres here next to the quarantine station as he had lime kilns, houses and fencing on the land. The limit of settlement was the quarantine station which emerged in 1852 when the ship the Ticonderoga from Liverpool landed with 400 passengers ill with fever out of the almost 800 that set out on the voyage. The sick were landed at the Heads and given supplies. 70 died and were buried there and then later re-interred in Sorrento cemetery in 1952. Construction of the quarantine station began in 1854 and it was used for this purpose during the 1919 Spanish influenza pandemic. It closed in 1950 when the Australian Army established their officer cadet training program there. In 2004 it became a Victorian National Park. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-11-10 10:14:02 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/320) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.3 |