Encounter Celebration Organisation Victor Harbor in Victor Harbor, South Australia | Community organisation

Encounter Celebration Organisation Victor Harbor

Locality: Victor Harbor, South Australia

Phone: +61 418 851 311

Address: PO Box 1785 5211 Victor Harbor, SA, Australia

Website: http://encountercelebration.org

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22.01.2022 Keep an eye out around town for one of these posters! Thank you Joe for doing such an amazing job. Tickets are limited so get in quick before they sell out.

22.01.2022 A reminder about tomorrow night's Talking History Online - French Science on the High Seas: Voyages of discovery to our shores and beyond. *PLEASE NOTE: THIS ...FILM SCREENING WILL NOT BE RECORDED.* The premiere of this richly illustrated short documentary film will be hosted by the South Australian Maritime Museum and sponsored by National Science Week. It brings to life our fascinating and colourful French history and reminds us of a time when scientific research involved intrepid voyages in tall ships on the high seas, battling scurvy and storms, insects and rats, and hostilities both onboard and onshore. Narrated by author and biologist, Dr Danielle Clode, and French lecturer, Dr Christèle Maizonniaux, this 45-minute film will be followed by a live Q&A. Screening will commence at 5.30pm on Zoom, Adelaide time, 18 August. There will be a short Q&A following. Full details - https://www.facebook.com/events/927380547746891/ Geographe by John Ford Dr Danielle Clode Dr Christèle Maizonniaux

21.01.2022 "Australia's historic French connections revealed through Flinders University academic's research..."

19.01.2022 Have you visited one of our museums on a school excursion? First Nations perspectives play an essential role in our programs. When European Explorers first cam...e to Australia, who really discovered who? The updated Encounters program at the South Australian Maritime Museum aims to provide some context to the study of Explorers, and share evidence and objects that provoke questions for students. This program has been a hit with students and teachers this year. Learn more about our School Programs here: https://history.sa.gov.au/education/ Image: First contact rock art, Nanguluwurr, Burrungkuy (Nourlangie). Photo: Parks Australia. #NAIDOCweek #alwayswasalwayswillbe #naidocweek2020

19.01.2022 On tomorrow afternoon and night. Flag raising ceremony, at Soldiers Memorial Gardens for 4.00pm then doors open for movie at Victa Cinema for 6.30pm. Some tickets for movie will be available for sale at the door - first in best dressed though!

13.01.2022 Please help us reach our goal.. "The Encounter Celebration Organisation is a not-for-profit organisation, committed to fostering local knowledge and understanding of the significant historic role Captain’s Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin played in the maritime history of Victor Harbor and South Australia. The Encounter, between the two Captains took place between the 8th and 9th of April, 1802.... The sharing of information between the two Captains, while the countries were at war, resulted in the naming of many of our coastal features extensive cartographic work culminating in the creation of the first complete map of Australia. In recognising this event an erection of a commemorative interactive sculpture, featuring a digital platform that will include details of the Encounter, it’s scientific and mapping feats, and the local Ngarrindjeri/Ramindjeri stories of this area. To help us raise funds in the Covid-19 climate, we are involved in the online 2020 People’s Choice Community Lottery. Can you help by purchasing one or more tickets at $2.00 each? Can you let your friends know? Visit www.communitylottery.com.au to buy your tickets online now. or click on the link below and this will take you to our page. https://communitylottery.peopleschoice.com.au//encounter-c Thank you for your support

11.01.2022 On this day, 7th October 1798, sea explorers Flinders and Bass set out to prove that Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) is an island. Matthew Flinders and George Bass... were early sea explorers who charted sections of Australia's coastline, adding valuable information to the current charts. In 1798, Bass explored along the southern coast of what would later become the colony of Victoria. His journeys led him to the belief that Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) was separate from the mainland. Governor Hunter wished for this theory to be proven conclusively, so he commissioned Flinders and Bass to circumnavigate Van Diemen's Land. The two men set out at dawn on 7 October 1798. By January of the following year, they had completed their circumnavigation of the island. Governor Hunter subsequently named the stretch of water between the mainland and Van Diemen's Land as "Bass's Strait", later to be known as the Bass Strait.

10.01.2022 Happy Birthday Matthew, born on this day 247 years ago! "Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), navigator, hydrographer and scientist, was born on 16 March 1774 at Donington, Lincolnshire, England, the son of Matthew Flinders, a surgeon, and his wife Sussannah, née Ward. He was educated at Donington Grammar School and by the vicar of Horbling; then, having developed a longing to go to sea, partly through reading Robinson Crusoe, and determined to embark upon a life of exploration." https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/flinders-matthew-2050 Matthew Flinders, State Library of South Australia.

07.01.2022 Only one more week to go!!!!

04.01.2022 Today is the day!! On this day in 1802 - "Captain Matthew Flinders in his ship, Investigator, left Kangaroo Island on the 6 April 1802 and sailed east. He named the narrow strait between the island the mainland Backstairs Passage, and a bay on the island Antechamber Bay.... About 4 o'clock in the afternoon of 8 April a sail was seen ahead and preparations made for action, but on heaving to it was found that the ship was the French Le Geographe under Captain Baudin. Flinders went on board, gave Baudin some of his charts and informed him where water was available on the island and at Port Lincoln. Baudin had come from the east and many of the names bestowed by him along the coast have been retained including Lacepede Bay, Rivoli Bay, Guichen Bay and Cape Jaffa. Flinders named their meeting place Encounter Bay. On the 8 April 1902 a plaque commemorating this meeting was unveiled at Rosetta Head, Victor Harbour."(sic) http://www.sahistorians.org.au//8-april-1802-flinders-and- "The meeting took place about 5 miles off the South Australian coast at latitude 35 40' South, longitude 138 58' East. Flinders later named this location Encounter Bay, as it is known today." https://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/c.php?g=410321&p=2795189 Le Geographe and the Investigator under full sail, artwork by John Ford. Captain Nicolas Baudin and Captain Matthew Flinders. State Library of South Australia.

03.01.2022 Time stopped during a war so that 2 Captains could exchange information and have breakfast together on the 8th & 9th of April 1802 in Encounter Bay.

01.01.2022 "The Encounter Celebrations organisation has an exciting program lined up to commemorate the meeting of Captain Matthew Flinders and Captain Nicolas Baudin in our local waters way back on April 8, 1802."