Port Davey
| Port Davey | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Land mass | Tasmania | |
| Geographical location | 43 ° 19 '48 " S , 145 ° 56' 24" O | |
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| width | approx. 8 km | |
| depth | without Payne Bay about 8 km | |
| Tributaries | Davey River | |
Port Davey is a bay on the southwest coast of the Australian state of Tasmania .
location
The bay is located on the southwest corner of the island of Tasmania in the western part of the Southwest National Park . The northern part of the bay, which extends far inland, is called Payne Bay . There the Davey River flows from the north . To the west of Payne Bay is the smaller James Kelly Basin . To the east, a natural, approx. 12 km long canal branches off from Port Davey, which connects Bathurst Harbor to the bay.
All of these bays are sheltered from the swell of the Roaring Forties , which crashes onto Tasmania's south and west coasts. The area is located within the Melaleuca to Birchs Inlet Important Bird Area , an international bird sanctuary.
The entire area around the bays is completely surrounded by the national park and, apart from a few hermits in the past, uninhabited. It can only be reached by sea as there is no road leading to it. The Port Davey Track , a long distance hiking trail, connects Port Davey with the south shore of Lake Pedder to the north and the Huon River and the South East Cape to the east.
history
The French navigator Marion du Fresne was the first European to describe the bay, now called Port Davey, in March 1772. On December 13, 1798, when Matthew Flinders was sailing along the west coast of Tasmania, he mentioned du Fresne's little sketch of the area and tried to steer his ship Norfolk closer to the coast to investigate the opening marked on du Fresne's sketch. The opening was clearly marked on Flinders' first map of Van Diemen's Land from 1800. James Kelly has always been the first to discover Port Davey, but Kelly certainly knew Flinders' cards and had them with him on his travels.
Aviation pioneer Francis McClean organized and led an expedition to Port Davey to observe the solar eclipse on May 9, 1910.
literature
- Helen Gee and Janet Fenton (Editors) (1978) The South West Book: A Tasmanian Wilderness . Australian Conservation Foundation, Hawthorne VIC (1978). ISBN 0858020548 ; later edition, same title, William Collins, Sydney NSW (1983). ISBN 0002173050
- Bathurst Harbor - Old River catchment . Working Paper No. 21. South West Tasmania Resources Survey, Sandy Bay, Tas: Steering Committee, SWTRS. Sandy Bar TAS (1981). ISBN 0724610103
Microfiche
- James Kelly (1791-1859). First discovery of Port Davey and Macquarie Harbor . Papers and Proceedings. Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart (December 24, 1920). Microfiche: Canberra: National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT (2004), pp. 160-181
Individual evidence
- ↑ IBA: Melaleuca to Birchs Inlet . In: Birdata . Birds Australia. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
- ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 58
- ↑ FK McClean ea: Report of the Solar Eclipse Expedition to Port Davey, Tasmania, May, 1910 (PDF; 10.2 MB)
- ↑ Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group, UM-Medsearch Gateway: THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF May 9, 1910 . In: Nature . 83, No. 2121, June 23, 1910, pp. 494-495. doi : 10.1038 / 083494a0 .