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Constitution Dock

            Constitution Dock is best known as the finishing line for the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race. First held in 1945/46, the yachts cover 1,170 km and traditionally moor here after the race. Line honours winners include Trygve and Magnus Halvorsen, Ted Turner, Larry Ellison, Alan Bond and Syd Fischer. 

Hobart's Victoria Dock (left of the restaurants) and Constitution Dock (centre/right) are almost completely enclosed by reclaimed land, the Franklin Wharf. 

The Victoria Dock is used by fishing vessels, while Constitution Dock has a smaller area for mooring restored historic yachts and sailing boats. Bridges allow the boats in and out. The water rises with the River Derwent at Sullivan's Cove.

Sullivan's Cove is the area where Lieutenant Governor David Collins established the British settlement in February 1804. Facilities here were initially built by convict labour for the shipping, whaling and wool industries. The Victoria Dock (originally Fishermen's Dock) was built on a sand spit. Constitution Dock resulted from reclamation work taking rubble from nearby quarries, creating fingers of land out into the water. It was completed in 1850 under Lt Governor Sir William Denison in the same week that a new constitution for Tasmania came into effect.

The Mures restaurants were first founded in 1973 by George and Jill Mure as Mures Fish House at Battery Point. They pioneered Tasmania’s blue eye trevalla industry and its first commercial mussel farm. There are three seafood restaurants, now run by second and third generations.

In the background, the red ship is the RSV Aurora Australis icebreaker. Named for the southern lights, it launched in 1989 and was the main lifeline to Australia's Antarctic and sub-Antarctic research stations before being decommissioned in 2020. It was built for the Australian Antarctic program by P&O Polar and designed by Wartsila Marine Industries of Finland.

Taken in: Australia / Tasmania / Hobart (show map)

Taken on: May 5, 2018

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