Places
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Retrieval – what was salvaged from the cargo of the Walter Hood?
As shipping agents and owners are not in the business of salvage, the wreck of the Walter Hood itself was…
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Error and Trial – wreckage and the tattletale crimson shirt
So what did happen to all the wreckage from the Walter Hood that was taken from the beach by local scavengers? By…
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Respect renewed – locals honour the Walter Hood victims
By the 1920s, the original Walter Hood graves had gone through several bushfires, severely damaging the inscribed slabs, and the high tide…
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Mutiny and Murder? – what really became of Captain Latto?
At the dedication of the Walter Hood memorial cairn near Wreck Bay in 1927, which took place 57 years after the wreck,…
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Hotel Marlin, Ulladulla – post WW2 luxury
Officially opened in August 1948, the Marlin Hotel on the Princes Highway in Ulladulla became the first hotel to open…
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Pigeon House Mountain – Didthul
The first reference to any feature of the country within a radius of 20 miles of Ulladulla was made by…
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Milton’s Church of England Cemetery
Some 500m distance from the Anglican Church of St Peter and Paul in Milton is its long-forgotten historic cemetery at…
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Holidays by the sea
Tourism had its humble beginnings in the early 1900s when the Butson family first ran a simple camping area on…
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Geological history: from the mountains to the sea
270 million years ago mud, silt and sand was eroded from mountains along the east coast of the supercontinent, Gondwana,…
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Warden Head Lighthouse, Ulladulla
Coastal shipping was the lifeblood of small towns like Ulladulla in the late 19th century but it was also a dangerous…