Into the heart of Tasmania Fossils Tasmania’s Surveyor General from 1859

Tasmania’s Surveyor General from 1859 to 1870

a field guide by the Tasmanian Marine Naturalists Association Inc

who discovered it

From the early Bass Strait sealing industries to George Augustus Robinson’s ‘conciliation’ missions

Into the heart of Tasmania Fossils Tasmania’s Surveyor General from 1859In 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an