Recherche Bay
Jul. 5th, 2005 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithI just found out Recherche Bay is pronounced Research Bay. Which makes sense. It's French for research (or seeking, quest).
It's the name of a bay down on the southern edge of the world. Back in the 1790s, some French explorers camped on the souther shore of what was then Van Diemen's Land. They planted a garden, gathered botanical specimens, met with the natives. It's an interesting site. It's a historically significant site. And the owners of the "adjoining" land want to log it.
They quoted some guy on the radio a few months back saying loggers had been told to look out for "significant sites". Somehow I don't have much faith in the average person's ability to recognise "significant sites" whether they're involved in clearfelling of trees or not.
The Federal Environment Minister is visiting the site, he's the one who gets to decide if the logging should be stopped and whether the site should be included on the National Heritage list
There is actually a website http://www.recherchebay.org
A picture http://www.cloudmaker.com/053.htm
It's the name of a bay down on the southern edge of the world. Back in the 1790s, some French explorers camped on the souther shore of what was then Van Diemen's Land. They planted a garden, gathered botanical specimens, met with the natives. It's an interesting site. It's a historically significant site. And the owners of the "adjoining" land want to log it.
They quoted some guy on the radio a few months back saying loggers had been told to look out for "significant sites". Somehow I don't have much faith in the average person's ability to recognise "significant sites" whether they're involved in clearfelling of trees or not.
The Federal Environment Minister is visiting the site, he's the one who gets to decide if the logging should be stopped and whether the site should be included on the National Heritage list
There is actually a website http://www.recherchebay.org
A picture http://www.cloudmaker.com/053.htm
