#2 Crossword Puzzle - Land Hunger: Portland, 1843

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Across
  1. 3. What was the approximate population of Portland in 1840?
  2. 9. Who was sent out to survey the 141st degree of longitude to determine the boundary between South Australia and New South Wales?
  3. 11. Besides the products from whales and wheat, what other produce was exported from Portland in the early days of settlement?
  4. 15. Besides Hobart and Melbourne, where else was farming produce being shipped to from Portland?
  5. 16. Who was the famous NSW pioneer who wanted to squat over the South Island of New Zealand?
  6. 17. What was the name given to the arrangment that allowed wealthy investors to purhase 5,000 acres of land for one pound an acre?
  7. 18. What type of coins – to the value of £500 - were stolen?
  8. 20. 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’?
  9. 21. In 1834 near Portland, where was a group of Indigenous people massacred by whalers for feeding on a beached whale?
  10. 23. Who purchased 5,000 acres of land at Tower Hill?
  11. 24. 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’?
Down
  1. 1. What structure was the Police Magistrate keen to have built in Portland Bay to service the increase in shipping?
  2. 2. Who claimed he founded Melbourne before John Batman?
  3. 4. What was an exchange of land for gifts called by the Indigenous people?
  4. 5. What name was given by Europeans to an exchange of land for gifts with the Indigenous people?
  5. 6. What was the term used to describe settlers who had a strong desire to purchase large acreages of land?
  6. 7. Who purchased land at Port Fairy and created the township of Belfast?
  7. 8. What direction does the wild weather usually come from in the Portland region?
  8. 10. In addition to shooting them for stealing their sheep, what did the pioneers give the Indigenous people that also killed them?
  9. 12. What event was held for the first time in Portland in 1840?
  10. 13. Besides whale oil, what other produce did the whalers harvest from whales and export overseas?
  11. 14. What did the Superintendent form to try to improve the relationship between the Indigenous people and settlers?
  12. 19. What was a common form of currencey used in Portland and around the colony in the early days of settlement?
  13. 21. Besides extra police and prisoners, who else was the Superintendant going to send to Portland to help the Police Magistrate?
  14. 22. What discovery did the Governor of New South Wales believe might lead to a rebellion amongst the convicts?