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32-469: Twofold Bay is an open oceanic embayment that is located in the South Coast region of New South Wales , Australia . The bay was named by George Bass , for its shape of two bights . The northern bight is called Calle Calle Bay; while the southern bight is known as Nullica Bay, derived from Nalluccer, the original Aboriginal name for Twofold Bay. The bay is also known for the " Killers of Eden ",

64-552: A bight . There are various ways in which bays can form. The largest bays have developed through plate tectonics . As the super-continent Pangaea broke up along curved and indented fault lines, the continents moved apart and left large bays; these include the Gulf of Guinea , the Gulf of Mexico , and the Bay of Bengal , which is the world's largest bay. Bays also form through coastal erosion by rivers and glaciers . A bay formed by

96-773: A full member of the Royal Water-colour Society. In 1881, he was appointed curator of the Painted Hall at Greenwich , and he received the honour of knighthood in 1885. He died in London on 14 December 1894. In 1851, Brierly married, first, Sarah, daughter of Edmund Fry, a member of the Society of Friends . She died in 1870. In 1872 he married Louise Marie, eldest daughter of the painter, Louis Huard of London and Brussels. His second wife survived him. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from

128-418: A glacier is a fjord . Rias are created by rivers and are characterised by more gradual slopes. Deposits of softer rocks erode more rapidly, forming bays, while harder rocks erode less quickly, leaving headlands . Oswald Walters Brierly Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (19 May 1817 – 14 December 1894), was an English marine painter from an old Cheshire family and he was born at Chester . He

160-478: A house named "Merton Cottage" built for him. Brierly Point, on the coast of New South Wales commemorates his connection with that colony. His familiarity with the whaling industry led to a number of paintings of whaling subjects. In 1848, Captain Owen Stanley , elder brother of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , then in command of HMS  Rattlesnake , invited Brierly to be his guest during an Admiralty survey of

192-554: A name by which the bay is still known. On 7 October 1798 Bass and Matthew Flinders set out from Port Jackson in the Norfolk on a voyage to determine whether or not Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania ) was attached to the mainland of Australia. Accompanying them on this voyage was the Nautilus . Two days later a survey of Twofold Bay was commenced. This very accurate survey has required little subsequent modification apart from

224-584: A poem by Henry Lawson . Will Lawson 's book In Ben Boyd's day (1939) is set in the bay. So too is Shirley Barrett's novel Rush Oh! (2015) which offers a fictionalised account of the family of whaler George Davidson at Eden . The history of whaling in the bay, and the role Killer Whales in that process, is the focus of the Eden Killer Whale Museum . The Twofold Bay is mentioned in “The Children Of Captain Grant” by Jules Verne . In

256-502: A steep upper foreshore with a broad, flat fronting terrace". Bays were significant in the history of human settlement because they provided easy access to marine resources like fisheries . Later they were important in the development of sea trade as the safe anchorage they provide encouraged their selection as ports . The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea defines a bay as

288-437: A well-marked indentation in the coastline, whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain land-locked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast. An indentation, however, shall not be regarded as a bay unless its area is as large as (or larger than) that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across the mouth of that indentation — otherwise it would be referred to as

320-603: Is so named because a sailing ship with a smallpox epidemic amongst the people on board took refuge in this (then) isolated area. Many people died and were buried on shore in a communal grave. In 1843 Benjamin Boyd purchased land in Twofold Bay with the aim of transporting cattle from the district. Soon afterwards, Boyd started to build the Seahorse Inn adjacent to what is now called Boydtown Beach . Boydtown Beach lies on

352-565: Is unable to process waste wood. The Eden chipmill was Australia's first chipmill and has been vigorously opposed by conservationists for over forty years. Some conservationists argue that woodchipping not only kills millions of native animals and birds, it is a major contributor to climate change. The second wharf belongs to the Department of Defence and is used by the Royal Australian Navy to service its ships. Parallel to

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384-685: The Friendly and Society Islands , and crossed the Pacific to Valparaíso . The cruise extended to the coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexico, and the ship returned by the Straits of Magellan and Rio de Janeiro , and reached England at the end of July 1851. Keppel's account of the voyage, published in 1853, was illustrated by eight lithographs by Brierly, who was made a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society on his return. After

416-545: The Susquehanna River . Bays may also be nested within each other; for example, James Bay is an arm of Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada . Some large bays, such as the Bay of Bengal and Hudson Bay, have varied marine geology . The land surrounding a bay often reduces the strength of winds and blocks waves . Bays may have as wide a variety of shoreline characteristics as other shorelines. In some cases, bays have beaches , which "are usually characterized by

448-753: The declaration of war with the Russian Empire in February 1854, Brierly was again Keppel's guest, on HMS  St Jean d'Acre , and the painter was present at all the operations of the allied fleets in the Baltic Sea , and sent home sketches for publication in the Illustrated London News. On the return of the fleet, Brierly had a series of fifteen large lithographs executed from his drawings, which were published on 2 April 1855, with

480-465: The 1840s and while there he did a number of paintings and sketches of the bay. He did a few more paintings of the area after his return to Britain. Evening: A scene in Boyd Town, Twofold Bay , is the title of a poem by Thomas Fennell, RN , that appeared in a New South Wales literary journal in 1847. Twofold Bay is the name, and subject, of a poem by E.J. Brady . Ben Boyd’s Tower , is the title of

512-643: The addition of water depths and of shore-to-shore distances between important landmarks. Bass and Flinders also made their first contact with the local Thaua people. The bay is mentioned in the logs of many ships which sheltered in it from the storms battering that part of the New South Wales coastline. Some of these ships were shipwrecked in the bay including the George (1805) and the Mary (1821). Quarantine Bay, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of Eden,

544-529: The area surrounding Twofold Bay were First Nations People of the Thaua or Nalbker clan of the Yuin nation. The first recorded visit to the bay by a European was by George Bass. The diaries of Bass show that he noted the bay when he passed it on his whaleboat voyage to Bass Strait in 1797/ 8 . Bass took shelter in the bay on the return journey in February 1798; and named the place where he sheltered "Snug Cove",

576-509: The bay is 11 square kilometres (4.2 sq mi) with a volume of 334,559 megalitres (11,814.8 × 10 ^  cu ft) over a surface area of 30.7 square kilometres (11.9 sq mi), at an average depth of 10.9 metres (36 ft); making the bay reputedly the third deepest natural harbour in the Southern Hemisphere . Close to North Head is a conspicuous islet, Mewstone Rock. About 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of

608-485: The great naval review which was held at Spithead at the end of the war. This was the commencement of a third period in the artist's career, during which he received the constant patronage of the royal family. In 1863, he accompanied Count Gleichen in HMS ; Racoon , on which the future Duke of Edinburgh was lieutenant , to Norway, and when the duke was appointed to the command of HMS  Galatea , Brierly

640-613: The islet is Red Point which forms the southern headland of the bay. Eden and the Port of Eden are located in the bay. The historical town of Boydtown is located to the west of the bay, located on Boydtown Beach which stretches south from the mouth of the Nullica River. Local waters including Twofold Bay are recognised as one of twelve coastal aggregation areas for southern right whales in Australia. The original inhabitants of

672-561: The killer whales that helped a group of whalers in their search for other whales. The best-known of these was Old Tom , whose skeleton is preserved in Eden's local museum. Located near the town of Eden , Twofold Bay is approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) to the north of the border between Victoria and New South Wales. The bay is fed from the Nullica River and Towamba River that both flow into Nullica Bay. The catchment area of

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704-421: The mid-2000s two major wharves dominate the south-eastern section of the bay. The most easterly wharf services the woodchip mill. Usually two ships per month use the wharf. The forestry industry plays a significant role in the region. The Eden woodchip mill is owned by South East Fibre Exports (SEFE), a subsidiary of Japan's biggest paper manufacturer, Nippon Paper Industries. The mill processes whole tree logs and

736-646: The most characteristic subjects of his later period were historical. The first of these was 'The Retreat of the Spanish Armada' (Royal Academy, 1871). This was followed by 'Drake taking the Capitana to Torbay' (Royal Water-colour Society, 1872), and many other subjects from the history of the Spanish Armada and other stirring incidents of the Elizabethan age . One of the most successful of these

768-584: The north and east coast of Australia and the adjacent islands, in which Thomas Henry Huxley took part as biological observer. Brierly accompanied the survey during two cruises and took not only sketches, but notes of considerable value, which, however, remained unpublished. His name was given to an island in the Louisiade Archipelago . In March 1850, the Hon. Henry Keppel asked Brierly to join him on HMS  Maeander . He then visited New Zealand,

800-499: The study of navigation, and in 1841 started on a voyage to Australia with his friend Benjamin Boyd in the latter's yacht Wanderer . Boyd established himself in New South Wales as a merchant banker, pastoralist, shipowner, whaler and member of parliament. Brierly lived in southern New South Wales in a new settlement named Boydtown where he managed Boyd's whaling operations until 1848. Boyd even went so far as to have

832-886: The suite of the Prince of Wales during the tour to the Nile, Constantinople , and the Crimea . He contributed five drawings to the Royal Academy exhibitions of 1859–61; he exhibited again in 1870–71, but ceased to exhibit at the Academy on becoming an associate of the Royal Water-colour Society in 1872. During the remainder of his life he contributed about two hundred water-colours to the society's exhibitions. These were, in part, founded on his early working life and travel experiences. His visits to Venice in 1874 and 1882 also supplied him materials for many of his most elaborate pictures; but

864-623: The title The English and French Fleets in the Baltic, 1854. In the second year of the war, he accompanied Keppel to the Black Sea; witnessed all the chief events of the war in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov , and visited Circassia and Mingrelia with the Duke of Newcastle on HMS  Highflyer . After his return, he was commanded by Queen Victoria to take sketches from the royal yacht of

896-410: The western shore of Twofold Bay just south of the entrance to the Nullica River, which is located at the southern end of Quarantine Bay. The Seahorse Inn is still used for tourist accommodation. Nearby are the ruins of the church which Ben Boyd had constructed. Boyd conducted pastoral, whaling and shipping activities at Boydtown. Artist Oswald Brierly managed a bay whaling operation at Boyd Town in

928-534: The woodchip mill is a naval munitions storage depot. It is a multi-purpose wharf which allows other vessels, including cruise ships, to also moor at the wharf when the Naval ships are not using it. Mussel farming occupies the westerly part of the bay off the small peninsula between Cattle Bay and Quarantine Bay. Bay A bay can be the estuary of a river, such as the Chesapeake Bay , an estuary of

960-644: Was 'The Loss of the Revenge' (1877), which was engraved for the Art Union of London. 'The Sailing of the Armada' (1879) and 'The Decisive Battle off Gravelines' (1881) were etched by Mr. David Law in 1882. Brierly was appointed marine painter to Queen Victoria, on the death of John Christian Schetky in 1874. He became marine painter to the Royal Yacht Squadron at the same time. In 1880, he was elected

992-517: Was attached to his suite and accompanied him on a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea and afterwards round the world, which lasted from 26 February 1867 to 26 June 1868. The sketches made by Brierly during the voyage were exhibited at South Kensington in 1868, and he contributed the illustrations to the record of the voyage by the Rev. John Milner, published in 1869. In 1868, Brierly was attached to

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1024-553: Was the son of Thomas Brierly, a medical doctor and amateur artist, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester on 19 May 1817. After a general grounding in art at the academy of Henry Sass in Bloomsbury , he went to Plymouth to study naval architecture and rigging . He exhibited drawings of two men-of-war at Plymouth, Pique and Gorgon , at the Royal Academy in 1839. He then spent some time in

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