Links

Tasmania's rich maritime heritage - its coastline, its wrecks, its early settlers and the role the island's coastal shipping and trading routes played in the opening up and exploration of the island state, can be readily explored through the following links:

Light houses of Tasmania - Tasmania's coastline proved treacherous to early navigators.

http://www.lighthouse.net.au/lights/TAS/Index%20Tas.htm

Tasmanian Maritime Museum -

http://www.users.bigpond.com/telstraevents/maritimetas/

Tasmania OnLine - a listing for almost every Tasmanian web site -

http://www.tas.gov.au

Antarctic exploration - every facet

http://www.aad.gov.au/

In depth (no pun intended) information in the shipwrecks section of the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service

http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/historic/shipw/

World Ship Trust -

http://www.worldshiptrust.org/awards.html