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15 unusual facts about Bass Strait


1962 Australian Touring Car Championship

Despite the geographic difficulties of crossing Bass Strait to get to the Longford street circuit, all four available Jaguars attended the 1962 ATCC meeting.

Achoerodus viridis

Its range extends from Caloundra in southern Queensland southwards to Wilsons Promontory in the south of Victoria, including the eastern end of the Bass Strait.

Cape Liptrap Lighthouse

The lighthouse warns ships of the rocks in treacherous Bass Strait.

Cliffy Island Lighthouse

The Cliffy Island Lighthouse is located atop Cliffy Island, a steep-sided island which is the summit of a granite submarine mountain in the Bass Strait.

Comocrus behri

Comocrus behri (Angas, 1847) aka 'Mistletoe Moth', is widely distributed in southern Australia from Perth to Melbourne and adjacent to Bass Strait, occurring as far north as Derby, Western Australia, and Clermont and Rockhampton in Queensland.

Esso Australia

Esso operates a number of oil and gas platforms in Bass Strait, south east of Melbourne, Australia, as well as a gas processing facility at Longford and Long Island Point (LIP) in Hastings.

I'm Interested in Apathy

Among the things the main claims to know or be able to do are: drilling for oil in the Bass Strait, being able to prove Einstein's theory wrong, predicting mankind's fate and knowing what really happened in regards to Marilyn Monroe's death.

King Expedition of 1817

From Port Jackson, Mermaid sailed south down the east coast, then west through Bass Strait and along the south coast.

MV Lady Cutler

On the return voyage she encountered gale force winds and large seas in Bass Strait.

Parastacidae

Two genera, Astacopsis and Parastacoides are endemic to Tasmania, while a further two are found on either side of the Bass StraitGeocharax and Engaeus.

Roger Curtis

He was however, brave and resourceful: his actions at Gibraltar even prompted the naming of the Curtis Group, an archipelago of small islands in the Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania: The islands were apparently given the name because of their physical similarity to Gibraltar.

Royce Hart

Aged 17, Hart crossed Bass Strait determined to develop his precocious talent, which was unusual; most Tasmania players played a number of seasons in the local competition before crossing to Victoria as mature age recruits.

Stephen Koroknay

Before becoming the Technical Manager of Esso's upstream activities in Australia, he was the Assistant Area Manager for the Esso/BHP Bass Strait operation, which at the time included twelve offshore platforms producing oil and gas, associated pipelines and three onshore processing plants.

Twofold Bay

The diaries of Bass show that he noted the bay when he passed it on his whaleboat voyage to Bass Strait in 1797/8.

William Hovell

In June 1816, while in command of The Brothers he was shipwrecked in the Kent Group, Bass Strait, and along with his crew of eight survived for 10 weeks on the wheat from their cargo that was washed up, before being rescued by the Spring.


Acacia uncifolia

It grows as a tall shrub or small tree, up to 2-6 m high and 2-4 m wide, in coastal areas of South Australia and Victoria, as well as on Tasmania’s Flinders Island and possibly other islands in Bass Strait.

Barnbougle Dunes

The 18 hole championship layout was designed by well known course architects Tom Doak and Mike Clayton, and is set among spectacular sand dunes overlooking Bass Strait.

Daniel Woodriff

They were bound for Port Philip in the Bass Strait, on the southern extremity of Australia, with the intention of setting up a new settlement there under the command of David Collins.

De Havilland Fox Moth

Fox Moth VH-UQM Miss Currie was purchased by Victor Holyman for £1,450 and began operating over the 108-mile route over south-eastern Bass Strait between Launceston, Tasmania and Whitemark on Flinders Island in October 1932.

Hunter Island Penguin

The Hunter Island Penguin (Tasidyptes hunteri) is an extinct penguin, subfossil remains of which were found in a Holocene Aboriginal midden at Stockyard Site on Hunter Island, in Bass Strait 5 km off the western end of the north coast of Tasmania, Australia.

Ischnochiton lineolatus

Ischnochiton lineolatus, commonly known as the Lined Ischnochiton is a species of chiton in the Ischnochiton genus that lives under rocks in the intertidal waters of southern and south-western Australia, from Bass Strait to the central west coast.

Saro Windhover

Between January 1933 and February 1934 operated a regular Bass Strait passenger service between Melbourne and Launceston, Tasmania via King Island.

Thomas Austin

After farming near Ouse, Thomas and his brother James crossed Bass Strait in 1837 and settled as pioneer pastoralists in the Western District of the Port Phillip District (now called Victoria).

Zygophyllum billardierei

In Tasmania, where it has only been recorded from the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait, it is listed as Rare under the state’s Threatened Species Protection Act 1995.