Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
March 12, 1985 A prestressed concrete bridge in southeastern Australia was officially opened to traffic. This 1,086-foot (331-meter)-long structure, which carries the Sturt Highway across the Murray River, serves as a link between the town of Buronga in the state of New South Wales (NSW) and the city of Mildura in the state of Victoria.... Continue Reading →
March 11, 2016 In the Australian state of Victoria, an arterial route built in the vicinity of southeastern Melbourne’s suburb of Dingley Village first went into service. Dingley Bypass was officially opened by Luke Donnellan (born in 1966), who served as the minister for Roads and Road Safety within the Executive Council of Victoria from... Continue Reading →
March 5, 2000 In the state of South Australia (SA), the Heysen Tunnels in the Adelaide suburb of Crafers West were officially opened. These twin-tube tunnels, which each encompass three lanes for vehicular traffic, carry the South Eastern Freeway beneath the locality known as Eagle On The Hill. The tunnels were named in memory of... Continue Reading →
February 23. 1984 On the Australian island state of Tasmania, the Bowen Bridge in the city of Hobart was dedicated. This 3,202-foot (976-meter)-long segmental cantilever bridge carries Goodwood Road (Route B35) across the River Derwent. The Bowen Bridge serves a key link for motor vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists traveling between the eastern and western areas... Continue Reading →
December 22, 1900 In what was then the British colony of New South Wales (NSW), a new timber truss bridge built across the Lane Cove River in Sydney was informally opened to the public. (NSW was a British colony until it became one of the states of the Commonwealth of Australia effective New Year’s Day... Continue Reading →
December 19, 2019 A patrol boat named Gizo was formally commissioned into the national police force of Solomon Islands, a country that that consists of six major islands and more than 1,000 smaller islands within Melanesia (a subregion of Oceania) in the southwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. Solomons Islands, which is northeast of Australia,... Continue Reading →
August 20, 1908 A first-of-a-kind automobile journey in Australia came to a successful end when a trio traveling in a Talbot car arrived in the city of Darwin in the Northern Territory. The three men completing this long-distance trip, which that had begun in the city of Adelaide in South Australia, were Henry Hampden Dutton... Continue Reading →
June 23, 2005 HMAS Cessnock (FCPB 210), a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Fremantle-class patrol boat, was decommissioned following more than two decades of service. This vessel was named after the city of Cessnock in the Hunter Region of the Australian state of New South Wales. She was the second RAN vessel to bear the name... Continue Reading →
September 28, 1899 The first electric trams to operate in Perth, the capital city of what was then the British colony of Western Australia, made their official debut. (A little over a year later, Western Australia became a state as part of the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia.) The new transit system – owned and... Continue Reading →
March 19, 1932 Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge, which carries traffic between that New South Wales (NSW) city’s central business district and North Shore area, was officially opened in ceremonies attended by hundreds of thousands of people. The lavish festivities on that Saturday for the steel through-type arch bridge included decorated floats in a nearby parade in... Continue Reading →
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