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“Stories of first landings on far planets.”
“One thing’s certain about the exploration of outer space – there’s not going to be two worlds alike! In this new collection of interstellar explorers, the fertile and original mind of Eric Frank Russell presents a half-dozen of the more extraordinary possibilities.
“There’s the world where everything moves at a pace so different from ours that it would take a couple of lifetimes to establish communication. There’s the planet of immortals, with all that that really signifies. There’s the puzzling problem of keeping important messages secret when surrounded by truculent aliens. And there’s more. . .
“Every story is different, every world is unique, and every adventure is science fiction at its best. . . [From the Introduction to the Ace Double]
[Note: The six short stories in this anthology first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. The stories are "The Waitabits," "Tieline," "Top Secret," "Nothing New," "Into Your Tent I'll Creep," and "Diabologic."]
Brief History of Port Lincoln.
Port Lincoln and Boston Bay were sighted and charted by Matthew Flinders in 1802 and named after his home town of Boston in Lincolnshire. Lincoln and Boston Bay were one of the many areas explored and considered by Colonel William Light for the location of the new colonial capital in 1836 but he discounted this area quickly. It lacked good water courses, the trees were scrubby and not tall and Light was not convinced the hinterland would provide the agricultural areas that were needed for the new colony. But it was clear the Boston Bay itself received good and reliable rainfall. Consequently when the government allowed Special Surveys in 1839 to get money into the state coffers and to open up more areas with surveyed land two groups applied for £4,000 Special Surveys here. This amount of money would allow each group to select 4,000 acres of their choice at £1 per acre and it would provide some surveyed land for the government to sell to others. The Port Lincoln and Boston Bay Surveys ( listed as numbers 9 and 10 in the survey list) were for a syndicate which included David McLaren on behalf of the SA Company and Charles Flaxman on behalf of George Fife Angas and the other group included Captain Henry Hawson and others including Matthew Smith. The McLaren/Flaxman group claimed the survey based around Port Lincoln as did the Hawson group. A legal fight over the boundaries of the two surveys resulted and the McLaren/Flaxman group surrendered their Special Survey in April 1840 leaving the Hawson/Smith group as the sole occupiers of the Port Lincoln and Boston Bay area. The actual survey of the Boston Bay Special survey for Hawson and others took place in 1841.
In the meantime Captain Hawson and prospective settlers to his new settlement arrived in mid 1839 on his ship the Abeona, Captain Porter’s ship the Porter and Captain Bishop’s ship the Dorset. The town of Port Lincoln was laid out in March of 1839 long before the Special Survey was undertaken. Surveyor Benjamin Winter laid out a town for the Special Survey owner Henry Hawson with 850 town blocks. Within one year there were 8 houses and 20 cottages or huts in Port Lincoln and by March 1841 there were 60 houses and huts. The settlers were on their own with no government police or resident magistrate or administrator but in April 1839 one month after the arrival of the settlers here Governor Hindmarsh appointed Captain Porter as a Justice of the Peace and in June 1839 an administrator in charge of customs and posts was appointed and Matthew Smith was appointed as resident magistrate. Sometime later in September 1842 Charles Driver was appointed as the first Resident or administrator of the Flinders District responsible for courts, police, births and marriages, customs and general government collection of fees and dues for leases, depasturing licences etc. Driver served in this capacity for ten years. Eventually in the mid 1850s a government Residency was built in Port Lincoln for the local Resident. This “so called” government house was named Ravendale. It is one of the oldest buildings still standing in Port Lincoln. In later years the office of residency was dispensed with and it became a private residence by 1875.
In 1839 the founders of the settlement, Hawson and Porter, made arrangements with the Imlay brothers of Twofold Bay (Eden in NSW) to look at a whaling in Boston Bay. By 1843 there were three whaling stations in the Port Lincoln district. As early as 1840 there were almost 220 inhabitants of the lands from the Special Survey. Governor Gawler visited Boston Bay and Eyre Peninsula shortly after his arrival in SA in early 1840. The government surveyed a further 6,000 acres near Port Lincoln in 1843 so that they had more land to sell there. Henry Hawson and Robert Tod explored the lower Eyre Peninsula in 1839 and discovered the Tod River showing that Eyre Peninsula was not as barren as explorer Edward John Eyre had believed. By the late 1840s many of the early settlers had deserted Port Lincoln for other places. Governor Sir Henry Young visited Port Lincoln in July 1851 to open the nave of the Anglican Church which was begun in 1850. The chancel, transepts and vestry were added in 1876. The Anglicans had received a glebe lands grant from the government and some financial assistance towards the cost of erecting the church. At the time of Governor Young’s visit the whole region had a population of around 300 people but 70,000 sheep. The people hardly numbered more than were present there in 1840. But Henry Hawson had 13 children and he was personally making a great success of his venture at Port Lincoln. He resided there but still operated his ship for trade with Albany, Hobart and elsewhere. He built his homestead at Kirton Point which was demolished many decades ago. Hawson farmed land near Port Lincoln and grazed cattle near Coffin Bay and was buried in 1849 in the Happy Valley cemetery at Port Lincoln. His children went on to become land owners across Eyre Peninsula. Hawson’s friend Matthew Smith who bought land in the original Special Survey became the first magistrate of Port Lincoln in 1839. He was also the first to take out a leasehold estate on Eyre Peninsula named Poonindie which he did in 1842. When Matthew Smith got rid of Poonindie station he established a cattle run near Coffin Bay. He also owned 65 acres at Glenelg and was a successful land speculator. Matthew Smith also purchased 45 waterfront town blocks in Port Lincoln in 1839 which he also sold at a profit. He died in Adelaide in 1858.
As the 19th century progressed so did Port Lincoln with its fine deep water harbour. It was sheep that provided a livelihood for the port town with the government jetty being erected in 1857 so the port could handle all wool from across the Eyre Peninsula. The fine Courthouse was built in 1862 and the Lincoln Hotel which opened in 1840 moved to a new location in a substantial building in 1852 indicating the growth of the town. Until 1864 when Streaky Bay was proclaimed Port Lincoln was the only town on the whole of Eyre Peninsula. In 1907 Port Lincoln’s role on Eyre Peninsula altered again with the first railway line built from Port Lincoln to Cummins. The Eyre Peninsula lines were gradually extended to Kimba and Buckleboo (1926) and westwards to Ceduna and Penong (1924) but they emanated from Port Lincoln. A solid two storey railway station was erected in Port Lincoln in 1927 to replace the earlier wooden structure once these new rail lines had been completed.
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A Merlin helicopter has landed on HMS Queen Elizabeth's enormous flight deck - the first aircraft to ever touch down on Britain's biggest warship. It fell to 26-year-old pilot Lieutenant Luke Wraith from Yorkshire to set the 14-tonne helicopter safely down on the aircraft carrier, just days after she left Rosyth to begin trials in the North Sea. He had a four-acre flight deck - almost the size of three football pitches - to aim for, where experienced aircraft handlers were waiting to guide him safely in and then lash the helicopter firmly down.
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Standing in line for an hour, I had lots of time to appreciate the artistry of the Eiffel Tower's construction -- and to notice the transparent glass floor that's been added to the tower's first landing. If you look closely at the left and bottom of the hole in the center of the landing, you may be able to see a handful of people standing on it. They're 187 feet (57 meters) above you.
"Now in his Palace of the West,
sinking to slumber,
the bright Day,
like a tired monarch fann'd to rest,
'mid the cool airs of Evening lay;
while round his couch's golden rim
the gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept--
struggling each other's light to dim,
& catch his last smile e'er he slept."
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First Landing State Park, VA.
A Merlin helicopter has landed on HMS Queen Elizabeth's enormous flight deck - the first aircraft to ever touch down on Britain's biggest warship. It fell to 26-year-old pilot Lieutenant Luke Wraith from Yorkshire to set the 14-tonne helicopter safely down on the aircraft carrier, just days after she left Rosyth to begin trials in the North Sea. He had a four-acre flight deck - almost the size of three football pitches - to aim for, where experienced aircraft handlers were waiting to guide him safely in and then lash the helicopter firmly down.
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Australia Day is celebrated annually on the 26th January. The date commemorates the day in 1788 that Captain Arthur Phillip, commander of the First Fleet of eleven convict ships from Great Britain and the first governor of new South Wales, arrived at Sydney Cove. The raising of the Union jack there symbolised British occupation of the eastern half of the continent claimed by Captain James Cook on 22nd August in 1770.
A Merlin helicopter has landed on HMS Queen Elizabeth's enormous flight deck - the first aircraft to ever touch down on Britain's biggest warship. It fell to 26-year-old pilot Lieutenant Luke Wraith from Yorkshire to set the 14-tonne helicopter safely down on the aircraft carrier, just days after she left Rosyth to begin trials in the North Sea. He had a four-acre flight deck - almost the size of three football pitches - to aim for, where experienced aircraft handlers were waiting to guide him safely in and then lash the helicopter firmly down.
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Throw back Thursday
I was recently shown a social media post that went something along these lines….
Going outdoors – not cancelled
Music - not cancelled
Family - not cancelled
Reading - not cancelled
Singing - not cancelled
Laughing - not cancelled
Hope - not cancelled
Let’s remember what we have
Rather than going out and creating new images, it seems appropriate to look back at past collections of beautiful things our area has to offer during these difficult times and that will still be here when we are done with the current conditions….
Stay safe, stay supportive
Photography by Craig McCLure
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A Wildcat helicopter operates from HMS ILLUSTRIOUS for the first time. Picture: PO(Phot) Ray Jones
A Wildcat, the navy's next-generation helicopter, has landed on the deck of HMS Illustrious for the first time. The Wildcat is still undergoing trials and will be replacing the Lynx Mk 8 on RN frigates and destroyers.
The wildcat shared the deck with the Merlins of 820, 824 and 829 Naval Air Squadrons as well as a Seaking from 771 Naval Air Squadron.
HMS Illustrious is currently taking part in Exercise Deep Blue, a major ASW exercise.
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