Calder, James Erskine, 1808 - 1882 (Surveyor of Van Diemans Land)
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Sorell causeway
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3088B
Scope and Contents
180 x 103 mm. A mounted print, with a handwritten caption beneath which reads: 'Sorell causeway over the Pittwater (?) River, from the Bluff, Cambridge, Tasmania.' A view looking across the small causeway, along which runs a railway line, towards the Sorell side of the bay. The causeway, which crosses Pitt Water, thus allowing a straight route from Hobart to Sorell and thence on to the east coast of Tasmania, was started at the instigation of Governor Sir William Denison in 1854. It was...
Dates:
1875
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