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Encyclopedia > Charles Hardwicke

Captain Charles Browne Hardwicke (1788-1880) was an explorer, later a farmer. He was born in Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, England. He settled in Launceston, Tasmania in 1816. He is best known for his claim that Tasmania's north-west coast was "quite impenetrable and totally uninhabitable".


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Pioneer both of sea and on land (http://www.elaunceston.com/launcestonhistory/hardwicke.htm)




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Pioneer both of sea and on land (585 words)
Charles Hardwicke was born at Market Deeping in 1788.
Charles and Elizabeth Hardwicke retired to Launceston in 1873.
For fifty-seven years Charles Browne Hardwicke was a pioneer farmer in northeastern Tasmania but, perhaps, he is best known for his claim that Tasmania's northwest coast was uninhabitable.
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