Tweed Volcano - Byron Bay, New South Wales, Mount Warning, Tweed River, Fingal Head, New South Wales, Tamborine Mountain (Paperback)

Chapters: Byron Bay, New South Wales, Mount Warning, Tweed River, Fingal Head, New South Wales, Tamborine Mountain. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Byron Bay, New South Wales - For thousands of years Aboriginal people came to the Bay to swap stories, find marriage partners and trade goods. They called it Cavvanbah. European history began in 1770, when Captain James Cook found a safe anchorage and named Cape Byron after John Byron, who had circumnavigated the world and who was later the grandfather of English poet Lord Byron. In the 1880s, when Europeans settled more permanently, streets were named for other English writers and philosophers. The first industry in Byron was cedar-getting, the "red center" from the Australian red cedar, Toona australis. The timber industry is the origin of the word "shoot" in many local names Possum Shoot, Coopers Shoot and Skinners Shoot where the timber-cutters would "shoot" the logs down the hills to be dragged to waiting ships. Byron Bay has a history of primary industrial production (dairy factory, abattoirs, whaling until 1963, fishing) and was a significant, but hazardous, sea port. The first jetty was built in 1886, and the railway was connected in 1894, and Cavvanbah became Byron Bay in 1894. Dairy farmers cleared more land and settled the area. In 1895, the Norco Co-operative was formed to provide cold storage and manage the dairy industry. The introduction of paspalum improved production, and Byron Bay exported butter to the world. The Norco factory was the biggest in the southern hemisphere, expanding from dairy to bacon and other processed meat. Byron Bay with sugar cane burning in the distanceThe lighthouse was built in 1901 at the most easterly point on the Australian mainland. In 1930, the first m...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=593873