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D'Entrecasteaux Channel
The D'Entrecasteaux Channel is a region of water between Bruny Island and the south-east of the mainland of Tasmania. It extends between the estuaries of the Derwent and the Huon Rivers. It was sighted by Abel Tasman in 1642 and surveyed in 1792 by Bruni d'Entrecasteaux.〔("D'Entrecasteaux Channel." ) Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved on 15 June 2014〕
Towns on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel include Snug, Margate, Kettering, Woodbridge, Flowerpot, Middleton and Gordon.〔(D'Entrecasteaux Channel ) The Huon Trail. Retrieved on 15 June 2014〕
==History==
In 1911, readers from the Mercury newspaper made the following comments about the history of the channel:
"This was discovered on April 20. 1792, by the celebrated French "Vice-Admiral Bruny D'Entrecasteaux, who, in the ships Recherche and Esperance, was searching for ill-fated La Perouse. Visiting Van Diemen's Land for the first time, he was attempting to find an anchorage in Adventure Bay, when, being himself ill in bed, the ships' navigators entered the channel to the west of Bruny Island, instead of going to the eastward of it. Thus, the discovery of the great channel was due to an accident. This is Labillardiere's account of the matter. A wrong bearing taken of the Mewstone accounts for the French navigator's error."〔http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10114401〕
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