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Hobart
Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the state of Tasmania in Australia.
The city today has a population of 200,525 (as of the
2006 census).
The first British settlement on Tasmania took place in 1803, when a penal colony was
established at Radison Cove on the eastern shore of the Derwent River. However, in 1804
the settlement was moved to Sullivan Cove, the present day location of Hobart. Initially
the town as known as "Hobart Town" or "Hobarton", the name being
chosen to honor Lord Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire who was
the British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, at that time.
Hobart is internationally famous as being the site of the fnish of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
which starts in Sydney on
Boxing Day
(December 26th).
Here is the weather forecast for Hobart:
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In the world of competitive off-shore sailing, Christmas Day is thought of as Boxing Day Eve--that is, the eve of the annual Sydney-to-Hobart Race. One of the world's three major offshore races (along with the Fastnet out of England and America's Newport Race to Bermuda), the 630-mile course from Sydney, Australia, to Hobart, Tasmania, is a test of skills, guts, and endurance in notoriously unpredictable, fickle waters--and in any weather. On Boxing Day, 1998, the 115 boats jockeying at the starting line off Sydney's Nielsen Park Beach had been warned that low-pressure weather systems were conspiring to guarantee a wild and chancy race. Yet few sailors anticipated the ferocity of the storm that descended around two o'clock the next morning, whipping up gale-force winds and waves tall enough to send 25-ton yachts "spearing into midair," then "plunging down into the trough ... like repeatedly launching a truck off a 30-foot ramp and awaiting the crash." The race quickly devolved into the worst sailing disaster in recent memory. Seven crews abandoned their boats. Over 50 sailors were rescued under near-impossible circumstances. Seven died, and five boats sank. Journalist Rob Mundle follows the dramatic struggles in Fatal Storm, skillfully re-creating from firsthand accounts the stories of bravery, luck, and folly that left a handful of sailors convinced they'd never go near the Hobart again. Yet as one veteran yachtsman lived to point out, "It's something you just have to do.... You can't be under the illusion at any time that it is safe." --Svenja Soldovieri |
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