Hell's Gates (Tasmania)

Hell's Gates (Tasmania)

:"Hell's Gates is also the name of a gorge on the Davey River in the south west region of Tasmania."

Mouth of Harbour

Hell's Gates is the name of the mouth of Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania. It is a notoriously shallow and dangerous channel entrance to the harbour. The actual channel is between Cape Sorell, Tasmania on the west and Entrance Island on the east (the main length of the harbour runs southeast of Hell's Gates). There is a wider area of water between Entrance Island and Macquarie Head, but it is too shallow to get a boat over.

Names origins

The name of the channel is often correlated to the entrance to the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station which was based on Sarah Island and the outlying surrounds of the harbour, being the convicts claim that it was their point of 'entrance to Hell' [ Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish (2008) "Closing Hell's Gates, the death of a convict station" Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin ISBN 978-1-74175-149-9. - the title alone, and chapter two "voyage through the gates of hell", similarly cite book|author=Collins, Paul|last=Collins|first=Paul|title=Hell's Gates: the terrible journey of Alexander Pearce, Van Dieman's land cannibal |publisher=Hardie Grant Books| location=South Yarra| year=2002| id=ISBN 1-74064-083-7 and * Pink, Kerry. (1984) " Through Hells Gates" ( A History of Strahan and Macquarie Harbour). Strahan, 1984. ISBN 0-646-36665-3 ]

Breakwater and channel

Between 1900 and 1902 the "Macquarie Harbour Entrance Works" involved the building of a breakwater and the channel was dredged. Parts of the breakwater can still be seen despite the passage of time. The Strahan Marine Board was involved with the monitoring of the mouth until its absorption into the Hobart Marine Board.

References

Further reading

*
* Kok, Arjan. "A Pictorial History of Strahan". Hobart, No Date. No ISBN.
* Loney, J. K. (1982) "Wrecks at Hell’s Gates" Portarlington, Vic. Marine History Publications, ISBN 0909191212
*: 2003 edition - Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown. : 1949 edition - Hobart: Davies Brothers. OCLC|48825404; ASIN [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FMPZ80 B000FMPZ80] : 1924 edition - Queenstown: Mount Lyell Tourist Association. OCLC|35070001; ASIN [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0008BM4XC B0008BM4XC]

External links

* [http://www.lighthouse.net.au/lights/TAS/Hells%20Gate/Hells%20Gate.htm#Hells Gates lights]
* [http://www.lighthouse.net.au/lights/TAS/Index%20Tas.htm#WestCoast Australian Lighthouse website]

ee also

* Cape Sorell
* Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania


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