Gillyweed

Whilst nobody 'owns' anything on Wikipedia I feel a small amount of pride that some of these more obscure, yet notable, bits and pieces of knowledge are now available on the world's best encyclopaedia. I hope, after the 'birth' of these 202 articles that they have gone on and grown from stubs into magnificent expositions... one can but hope!

• Graeme Simsion - An Australian author.
• Isabella (1824 ship) - A ship that disappeared off the coast of Australia in 1824.
• Phoenix (1798 ship) - A frigate damaged in 1824 and turned into a prison hulk in Sydney.
• Belinda (ship) - A brig wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1824.
• Actaeon (ship) - A ship wrecked off the Northern Coast of Tasmania in 1822.
• Victorine (ship) - A ship that disappeared off the coast of Australia in 1822.
• Grace (ship) - A ship burnt and destroyed in 1822 on the way to England with Governor Macquarie's dispatches.
• Phatisalam — A ship wrecked in 1821 by Captain Peter Dillon who went on to discover what happened to La Perouse.
• Princess Charlotte (brig) — An Australian brig that went missing with all hands in 1820
• Frank Sydney Greenop - Australian editor and author, born (1913 - 1975)
• Evgeny Ukhanov - A Ukraninan (now Australian) pianist, born in 1982.
• John Palmer (1814 schooner) - An Australian schooner wrecked in 1819.
• Hector Holthouse - An Australian popular historian - when did he live?
• Charles Seltman - An English Art Historian (1886 - 1957)
• Raymond de Becker - A Belgian writer and journalist (1912 - 1968)
• Daphne (brig) - A brig wrecked in 1819 in Bass Strait.
• The Elligood - A ship that may have been wrecked in 1801.
• Malcolm Sircom - An English composer and writer of musicals (1934 - 2008)
• Reginald Whinney - An English Royal Navy Captain who sank three U-boats.
• Young Lachlan - An Australian schooner stolen by convicts in 1818.
• William Cossar - An Australian schooner stolen by convicts in 1817.
• Frederick (ship) - A ship wrecked in 1818 with the loss of 23 crew.
• Bruce Quarrie - An English historian, journalist and wargamer 1947 -
• Simon Fowler (author) - An English historian and journalist
• Ruth Paley - An English historian.
• Marie-Madeleine Gauthier - (1920 - 1998) A French expert in medieval enamels.
• John Putnam Demos - An American historian and author who writes about witchcraft.
• Jeremy Pascall - An English journalist and comedian.
• Robert Macklin - An Australian journalist and writer, born 1941.
• James Bentley - An English Reverend and Author who died in 2000. He liked writing about relics.
• Hope (ship) 1817 - a ship owned by Solomon Wiseman wrecked at Port Stephens in 1817.
• Lady Elliot - A ship wrecked off Cardwell in 1816.
• Trial (ship) - A ship that was wrecked off the East Coast of Australia after being stolen by convicts.
• Elizabeth Henrietta (1816) - An Australian brig that capsized in 1816.
• Governor Hunter (ship) - An Australian schooner that was wrecked in 1816.
• Whale (ship) - An Australian sloop that disappeared in 1816 of the coast of New South Wales.
• Hawkesbury Packet - An Australian sloop wrecked in 1817
• Lyneham Primary School, ACT - An ACT Primary School established 1959.
• Solomon Wiseman - An Australian convict, merchant and ship owner. 1777- 1838
• The Brothers (ship) - A ship wrecked by William Hilton Hovell of Hovell and Hume fame in 1816.
• Edwin (ship) - A ship that was wrecked off the coast of New South Wales in 1816.
• Windsor (ship) - A ship that was wrecked off the coast of Sydney in 1816 with the poor survivors of the Recovery on board!
• Recovery (ship) - A sloop that was wrecked near Port Stephens in 1816.
• Estramina - A schooner with a chequered history that was wrecked in 1816.
• Amelia (ship) - A ship that disappeared off the coast of Australia in 1816.
• Betsey (1803 ship) - An Australian ship that was abandoned off the coast of New Zealand in 1815.
• Morning Star (ship) - An Indian ship that disappeared in the Torres Strait in 1814.
• Three Bees - A British ship that exploded in Sydney Harbour in 1814.
• Argo (ship) - An Indian ship that disappeared off Tasmania in 1814.
• Unity (ship) - A schooner that disappeared off Tasmania in 1813.
• Campbell Macquarie - A ship wrecked on Macquarie Island in 1812.
• Active (ship) - A brigantine that disappeared in the Tasman Sea in 1810.
• Contest (ship) - A sloop sunk near Port Stephens in 1807.
• Hazard (ship) - A sloop sunk near Broken Bay in 1809.
• Argument (ship) - A sloop sunk near Broken Bay in 1809.
• Charlotte (sloop) - A ship sunk off Sydney Harbour in 1808.
• Dundee (ship) - A ship wrecked at the mouth of the Hunter River in 1808.
• Hebe (ship) 1808 - A ship sunk near Port Dalrymple in 1808.
• Eliza (1808) - An American ship sunk in Fiji in 1808.
• Alex Kershaw - An American non-fiction author.
• Edith Simon - An English author and sculptor.
• Michael Ridley - An English archaeologist and orientalist
• John (ship) - A sloop that disappeared off the coast of New South Wales in 1806.
• Britannia (ship) - A ship that was wrecked off the coast of New South Wales in 1806.
• Bee (ship) - A ship that disappeared off the coast of Newcastle in 1806.
• Tellicherry (1796 ship) - A ship wrecked in the Philippines in 1806
• Sydney (ship) - An East Indiaman wrecked off New Guinea in 1806
• Governor King (ship) - An Australian schooner wrecked at Newcastle in 1806
• George (ship) - An Australian sloop wrecked in Twofold Bay in 1806
• Betsey - A Schooner wrecked in the China Sea in 1805
• Peter Frankis - An Australian short story writer.
• Michael Byrne - An Australian poet
• Stephen Matthews - An Australian writer and publisher
• Tim Metcalf - An Australian poet and doctor
• Rory Steele - An Australian fiction writer and diplomat.
• ACT Writing and Publishing Awards - A literary award awarded since 2004
• Integrity (ship) - An Australian cutter that disappeared in 1805.
• Mersey (1801 ship) - A Bengali ship wrecked in the Torres Strait in 1805.
• Nancy (ship) - An Australian sloop wrecked near Jervis Bay in 1804.
• Union (ship) - An American ship wrecked in Fiji in 1804.
• Cato (ship) - An English ship wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef in 1803.
• HMS Porpoise (1799) - An English Sloop wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef in 1803.
• Margaret (brig) - An English Brig wrecked in the Society Islands in 1803.
• L'Enterprise - A French Schooner wrecked with total loss of life in Bass Strait in 1802/03
• Duke of Portland (whaler) - A 400 ton whaler that was wrecked in Tonga in 1802
• Fly (brig) - A 100 ton Brig that disappeared in 1802.
• Caroline (ship) - American Schooner disappeared 1802.
• Norfolk (brig) - Australian Brig wrecked in 1802.
• Argo (1800) - American Schooner sunk near Fiji in 1800
• Eliza (ship) - Small sloop used to rescue survivors of the Sydney Cove (ship) in 1797
• Boussole - French Navy ship sunk in the New Hebrides in 1788
• Aagtekerke - Dutch East India Ship wrecked somewhere in WA in 1726
• Fortuyn - Dutch East India Ship wrecked somewhere in WA in 1724
• Charles Bateson - New Zealand maritime historian and journalist (1903 - 1974)
• Graham Jones (Australian author) - Australian author and historian
• Ephraim John Burford - English historian (1905 - 1997)
• James Cleugh - English author and translator (1891 - 1969)
• Judith C Brown (historian) - American historian and author.
• E.C. Buley - Ernest Charles Buley, Australian journalist, romance novelist and thief (1869 - 1933)
• William Scurry - Australian soldier and inventor (1895 - 1963)
• Rhodanthe Lipsett - Australian midwife and author
• Simon MacKenzie - Canadian academic and writer.
• Nino Lo Bello - American author and journalist (1922 - 1997)
• Anthony Arthur - American author and historian
• Clark Heinrich - American author and ethno-botanist
• Siân Rees - English author and historian
• Pat Studdy-Clift - Australian author and historian (1926 - )
• Elinor Gadon - American author and expert on Goddess religions
• Kenneth McIntyre - Controversial Australian historian (1910 - 2004)
• DrHector Kinloch - Australian politician and academic (1927 - 1993)
• Ben Shephard - English TV producer and author (1948 - )
• Ann Dally - British psychiatrist and author
• Fraser Harrison — British author and publisher (1944 - )
• Raymond T McNally - American Professor specializing in Horror (1931 - 2002)
• Iain Finlay - Australian author and journalist (1935 - )
• Edward Lynch - Australian soldier and author (1898 - 1980)
• Nicholas Stargardt - Australian historian (1962 - )
• Rudolph Brasch - Australian Rabbi and author (1912 - 2004)
• Samuel Janus - American psychotherapist and author (1930 - )
• Tama Starr - American author and businesswoman
• Paul Wilson (criminologist) - Australian criminologist (1941 - )
• Timothy Tovell - Australian airman who smuggled an orphan into Australia (1878 - 1966)
• Anthony Hill (author) - Australian author (1942 - )
• Muriel Segal - English journalist and author
• Marie Tulip - Australian feminist author
• Tantangara Reservoir - a dam in New South Wales (1960 - )
• Naas (valley) - an area in Namadgi National Park
• Fuse plug - an engineering structure on spillways
• Donald Eaton Carr - American author (1903 - ?)
• Calvin C. Hernton - American poet and sociologist (1932 - 2001)
• Elizabeth Gould Davis - Contentious American author (1910 - 1974)
• Bryna Taubman - American author (? - ?)
• Edward Weston (pastoralist) - Superintendent at Hyde Park Barracks and wealthy farmer (180? - 18??)
• London Bridge (karst) - A remarkable limestone formation.
• Heinrich Severloh - A German soldier with extraordinary claims (1923 - 2006)
• Westbourne Woods - An exotic planting in Canberra (1913 - )
• Kate Fairweather - Australian Olympian (1975 - )
• Ginninderra - A region in Canberra.
• John Tennant - Early Australian Bushranger (1820s)
• Ginninderra Creek - Watercourse in Canberra
• Duncan Dunbar (ship owner) - Owner of the Duncan Dunbar
• Duncan Dunbar - Clipper wrecked off Brazil (1865)
• Edward Kendall Crace - Canberra Pastoralist (1844 - 1892)
• Old Canberra Inn - (1860 - )
• All Saints Anglican Church - Church in Ainslie, Canberra (1869 - )
• Blundell's Cottage - Farmhouse in Canberra (1858 - )
• Pierce Galliard Smith - Rector, St Johns (1826 - 1908)
• Collector, New South Wales - Town in NSW (1829 - )
• Lake Bathurst - Lake in SE NSW
• Bungonia - Town in the NSW Southern Highlands (1832 - )
• Bong Bong - Town near Moss Vale (1821 - )
• Henry Hall (farmer) - Farmer in the Canberra District (1802 - 1888)
• Mount Tennent - ACT Mountain
• Sally Tracy - Australian Midwifery Researcher ( - )
• Laurence James Ludovici - American Author ( - )
• William Corin - Australian Electrical Engineer (1867 - 1929)
• Mt Stromlo Hydro-Power Station - Australian Engineering Structure (2000 - )
• Henry Douglas Stephens - Australian Surgeon (1877 - 1952)
• Frank Douglas Stephens - Australian Surgeon (1913 - )
• Bendora Gravity Main - Australian Engineering Structure (1966-1968)
• Richard O'Neill - English Author
• Jack Barber - Australian Author and Soldier (1919 - )
• Hans Roland - Australian Author and Teacher (1931 - )
• International Competitions and Assessments for Schools — Academic Testing
• Colin Burgess (author) - Australian Author (1947 - )
• Women's Electoral Lobby - Australian Lobby Group (1972 - )
• Mary Ingham - English Author
• Margot Hilton - Australian Author (1947 - )
• Peter Sekuless - Australian Lobbyist and Author (1945 - )
• Laurence John Hartley Teakle - Australian Agricultural Scientist (1901 - 1979)
• Bendora Arboretum - Botanical planting (1940 - )
• Flow splitter - Hydrological engineering device
• Nappe (water) - The water overtopping a dam.
• Bendora Dam - Dam on the Cotter River completed 1961
• Mark Johnston (author) - Australian Historian and Author (1960 - )
• Herbert Strang - English Author(s) of Adventure Stories (1866 - 1958)
• Lawrence Dwight Smith - American Author and Cryptologist
• Larner-Johnson Valve - Engineering component used in water control
• Frederick William Bourne - English Preacher and Author (1830-1905)
• Sarah Ellis - British Author (1812 - 1872)
• Gun Buster - British Author
• Roy Kyle - Australian soldier, 1st AIF (1897 - 1996)
• Wilhelm Falley - German General WWII (1897 - 1944)
• Arthur Swinson - British Brigadier and Historian
• William Craig (author) - US Historian (1929 - 1997)
• Don Pardee Moon - USN Rear Admiral (1894 - 1944)
• HMS Inconstant (1868)
• Iron Mountain (Riverboat) (1864 - 1872)
• Sreten Bozic - Anthropologist (1932 - )
• Robert Coupe - Australian Historian
• Clive Turnbull - Australian Journalist (1906 - 1975)
• Thomas Wood (author) - English Author (1892 - 1950)
• Richard Beckett - Australian Author (1936 - )
• Ray Beckett - Australian Journalist and Newspaper Editor (1903 - )
• Christopher Sweeney - Australian Author
• Mark Clisby - Australian Author and Military Historian
• Barry Dickins - Australian Author and Playwright (1949 - )
• John William Stokes - Australian Administrator on the Cocos Islands (1910 - )
• John Grady (author) - Australian Social Scientist (1923 - )
• Valerie McKenzie - Australian Historian

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