George Bass
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George Bass was an English naval surgeon and explorer of Australia.
Memorial (1912) to the "discovery and naming" of Western Port on 4 January 1798, at Flinders, Victoria.
Western Port 200th anniversary of discovery re-enactment plaque.
Bass Strait
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Bass Strait is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland. The strait provides the most direct waterway between the Great Australian Bight and the Tasman Sea, and is
George Bass
…When the two returned to Sydney, Flinders recommended to Governor John Hunter that the passage between Van Diemen's Land and the mainland be called Bass Strait. "This was no more than a just tribute to my worthy friend and companion," Flinders wrote, "for the extreme dangers and fatigues he had undergone, in…
Monument commemorating the first flight across the Bass Strait, by Arthur Leonard Long in 1919. Note the spelling "Straits".
Burnie CBD and Port from Wilfred Campbell Memorial Reserve with Bass Strait behind
Amphitrite on 1936 stamp commemorating completion of cable