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D'Entrecasteaux Channel

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with its numerous southern-facing water views and beaches, although light pollution from the numerous salmon farms is now starting to impact on this visual beauty from many locations.
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The D'Entrecasteaux Channel region sheltered by Bruny Island is increasingly affected by foreshore erosion, in some areas sandbagging aims to reduce the effects.
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The area has always been of great significance to the Nuenonne band of the South East tribe of Tasmanian Indigenous peoples. According to
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The D'Entrecasteaux Channel has become a popular location for keen photographers to capture images of the
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were used to collect scallops from the seafloor. Damage caused by the dredging has led to collection by
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newspaper, the channel "..... was discovered on 20 April 1792 by the celebrated French "Vice-Admiral
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Whaling stations operated on the shores of the channel in the first half of the 19th century.
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Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved on 15 June 2014
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South East Tasmania with D'Entrecasteaux Channel highlighted.
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PROTECTED ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES - KINGBOROUGH AND CHANNEL
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The Bay whalers; Tasmania's shore-based whaling industry
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Flora Fox, News and Information about Southern Tasmania
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Parsons, Karen; Ecomarine Consulting (October 2012).
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT GOALS for TASMANIAN WATERS
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D’Entrecasteaux Channel
D'Entrecasteaux Channel is located in Tasmania
Tasmania

South East
Tasmania
43°13′S 147°17′E / 43.217°S 147.283°E / -43.217; 147.283
Type
Channel
Bruni D'Entrecasteaux
Derwent River
Huon River
Primary outflows
Tasman Sea
South Pacific Ocean
Basin
Snug
Margate
Kettering
Woodbridge
Flowerpot
Middleton
Gordon
/ˌdɒntrəˈkæst/
Bruny Island
Tasmania
mouth
Derwent
Huon Rivers
Tasman Sea

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