Everything about Risdon Cove totally explained
Risdon Cove was the site of the first
British settlement in
Van Diemen's Land, now
Tasmania, the smallest Australian state.
In
1803 Lieutenant
John Bowen was sent to establish a settlement in Van Diemen's Land. The
Lady Nelson anchored at Risdon on the eastern shore of the
Derwent River on Wednesday
September 8 1803, five days before the whaler
Albion arrived with Lt. Bowen on board.
In
1804 Lieutenant Colonel
David Collins arrived in the Derwent from Port Phillip. Within a few days he rejected Risdon Cove as a suitable settlement site and moved his party across the river to
Sullivan's Cove. The military and convicts disembarked from the
Ocean near
Hunter Island on the 20-21 February
1804 and thus beginning what is now
Hobart. The free settlers were landed from the
Lady Nelson at New Town Bay on
22 February.
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