Bruny island

Called Bruny Island in English, the island Bruny is a island of Australia, located on the south-eastern coast of the Tasmanie and separated from the latter by the Canal of Entrecasteaux. Both bear the name of the explorer French Antoine Bruny d' Entrecasteaux. The Aborigènes called it Alonnah Lunawanna , name which remains in two localities, Alonnaz and Lunawanna on the southern half.

Geography

Geologically, the Bruny island is in fact made up of two islands, North Bruny and South Bruny, connected by a Isthme sandy. The vegetation consists mainly of pastures and forests of Eucalyptus. Except the two beaches of Adventure Bay and Cloudy Bay, the coast opening towards the broad one is abrupt, with Falaise S of Dolérite overhanging the sea with more 200 meters. The coast giving on the channel is hospital and offers several sheltered bays.

History

The Bruny island was occupied by the Aborigènes of Tasmanie until the arrival of the Européens. Abel Tasman unloaded in the surroundings of the island in November 1642. In 1773, Tobias Furneaux, which explored the coast with James Cook, wet the anchor in the vicinity. The January 26th 1977, Cook slackened in Adventure Bay with the Resolution and the Discovery for two days. The tree on which it engraved its initial was destroyed in a forest fire in 1905; it is replaced today by a commemorative plaque. William Bligh also remained in Adventure Bay in 1788 and 1792, year when Antoine d' Entrecasteaux explored the channel and the island to which it gave his name (spelled island Bruni until 1918).

A few years later, the forwarding towards the southern Lands taken along by Nicolas Baudin made a long slackening in the channel, and this one was the occasion of many excursions on the Bruny island, where François Péron, François Heirisson and Jerome Bellefin met a group of women aboriginals with which they shared a certain intimacy and among which Arra-Maïda was.

Economy

The Bruny island is mainly a tourist destination , for its national parks, its historic sites and the practice of the sporting Pêche. The other economic activities of the island are the breeding and the exploitation of wood.

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