#2 Crossword Puzzle - Land Hunger: Portland, 1843
Across
- 3. What name was given by Europeans to an exchange of land for gifts with the Indigenous people?
- 5. What direction does the wild weather usually come from in the Portland region?
- 9. What was the approximate population of Portland in 1840?
- 10. Besides the products from whales and wheat, what other produce was exported from Portland in the early days of settlement?
- 14. What structure was the Police Magistrate keen to have built in Portland Bay to service the increase in shipping?
- 15. Who purchased land at Port Fairy and created the township of Belfast?
- 16. Where was a group of Indigenous people massacred by whalers because they were feeding on a beached whale?
- 20. In addition to shooting them for stealing their sheep, what did the pioneers give the Indigenous people that also killed them?
- 21. What event was held for the first time in Portland in 1840?
- 22. Who issued a Declaration stating that any arrangement involving an exchange of land for gifts with the Indigenous people was ‘void and of no effect’?
- 24. What was the term used to describe settlers who had a strong desire to purchase large acreages of land?
- 25. What was a common form of currencey used in Portland and around the colony in the early days of settlement?
Down
- 1. Who was sent out to survey the 141st degree of longitude to determine the boundary between South Australia and New South Wales?
- 2. Besides whale oil, what other produce did the whalers harvest from whales and export overseas?
- 4. Besides John Batman, who else claimed to have founded Melbourne?
- 6. Who was the famous NSW pioneer who wanted to squat over the South Island of New Zealand?
- 7. What did the Superintendent form to try to improve the relationship between the Indigenous people and settlers?
- 8. Who purchased 5,000 acres of land at Tower Hill?
- 11. What type of coins – to the value of £500 - were stolen?
- 12. Besides Hobart and Melbourne, where else was farming produce being shipped to from Portland?
- 13. What was the name given to the arrangment that allowed wealthy investors to purhase 5,000 acres of land for one pound an acre?
- 17. What English law meant the ‘land belongs to nobody’, meaning any exchange of land for gifts with the indigenous people was ‘void and of no effect’?
- 18. What was an exchange of land for gifts called by the Indigenous people?
- 19. What discovery did the Governor of New South Wales believe might lead to a rebellion amongst the convicts?
- 23. Besides extra police and prisoners, who else was the Superintendant going to send to Portland to help the Police Magistrate?