Vehicle - Kayak and journal

Historical information

Australia’s first modern sea kayak expedition: “The journey they said couldn’t be done”

Members: Earle de Blonville & John Brewster

First kayak expedition to circumnavigate Tasmania’s 1,600 km coastline

Route: The 1798-99 route of Bass and Flinders in the ‘Norfolk’

Start and finish Georgetown: anticlockwise via the west coast and Hobart.

Media covers the Tasmania expedition itself, plus the pre-Tasmania training voyages in Scotland and the Hebrides, plus resulting articles.

Significance

Kayak used in 1979 circumnavigation of Tasmania by Earl Bloomfield, accompanied by journal of expedition and photographs

Physical description

Sea Kayak, Nordkapp design

References

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