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July 12, 2015 by Max Distro LLC

Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney

Entrance of the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney

Entrance of the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney

Almost every place that we visit near the sea, I look for a maritime museum. In Sydney, we visited the Australian National Maritime Museum and I was not disappointed. This museum has real ships, exhibits on a multitude of subjects and beautiful nautical models, paintings and instruments. In June 1985, the Australian government announced the establishment of a national museum focusing on Australia’s maritime history and the nation’s ongoing involvement and dependence on the sea. Proposals for the creation of such a museum had been under consideration over the preceding years. After consideration of the idea to establish a maritime museum, the Federal government announced that a national maritime museum would be constructed at Darling Harbour, tied into the New South Wales State government’s redevelopment of the area for the Australian bicentenary.

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Filed Under: Australia, Clocks and Astrolabes Tagged With: Australia, Australian National Maritime Museum, Charlotte Medal, Chronometer, Compass, Darling Harbor, Darling Harbour, Davis Quadrant, HMS Sirius, Lord Horatio Nelson, Octant, Pantograph, Prison Hulk York, RMS Orcades, Sextant, Ship Log, SMS Emdon, Sydney, VOC Batavia, VOC Zuytdorp

March 19, 2015 by Max Distro LLC

Maritime Museum of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania

Aboriginal Tasmanian Canoe, Stringybark (Eucalyptus). Maritime Museum of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania

Aboriginal Tasmanian Canoe, Stringybark (Eucalyptus). Maritime Museum of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania

Twelve thousand years ago, sea levels were rising as the period of global glaciation ended. The land mass now known as Tasmania was cut off and the Aboriginal people living here were isolated from the Australian mainland. Before European settlement, Aboriginal Tasmanians lived in bands, each occupying a stretch of coastline and adjacent inland areas. They were hunter/gatherers who moved around the country to harvest seasonal food. As a coastal people, they relied on the sea for much of their diet. Aboriginal women collected abalone, oysters, mussels and other seafood and the remains of these make up the middens which can be found all around the Tasmanian coastline. The boat shown above was typical of the Tasmanian people. Southern Tasmania became a favoured resting and restocking place for French and English explorers journeying to the Pacific in search of new trade routes, products, land, and scientific knowledge. Aboriginal Tasmanians of the Oyster Bay and South East Tribes were the first to observe Europeans. The earliest encounter in 1772, with a French expedition led by Marion du Fresne, was marred by misunderstanding. Men from both sides were wounded and an Aboriginal was man killed. Other early visitors included Furneaux on Cook’s first Pacific voyage and Cook himself on his second voyage. Bligh also stopped over on his two attempts to obtain breadfruit from Tahiti.

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Filed Under: Australia, Clocks and Astrolabes, Maps, Museums Tagged With: Astrolabe, Carronade, Chronometer, Compass, Cook, Deck Watch, Heemskerck, Hobart, Kurt Buzard MD, Marion du Fresne, Maritime Museum of Tasmania, Octant, Sextant, Tasman, Tasmania

July 28, 2012 by Max Distro LLC

French Maritime Museum Navigation Instruments, Paris

Ship Log, French Maritime Museum Navigation Instruments, Paris

Ship Log, French Maritime Museum Navigation Instruments, Paris

 

They have a nice collection of navigational instruments at the French Maritime Museum, so I thought I would share some with you. The little gadget shown above is called a ship log, and it is a way of determining the speed of the boat through water. This is the evolved form of throwing a chip of wood overboard and seeing how far it goes in a few seconds. In the above picture you can see a thirty second sandglass. The idea is to throw it overboard, let it float there for 30 seconds, while the ship moves away. The line has knots on it every so often and thus you can measure the speed of the boat.

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Filed Under: Clocks and Astrolabes, France, Museums, Paris Tagged With: Abraham-Louis Breguet, Astrolabe, Borda circle, Chronometer, Compass, Ferdinand Berthoud, French Maritime Museum, John Arnold, John Harrison, Kurt Buzard MD, Lattitude, Longitude, Marine Chronometer, Mendoza Circle, Musee Maritime Paris, Navigation, Nocturlabe, Octant, Pierre Le Roy, Reflecting Circle, Sextant, Ship Log, Viking Compass

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