A Note on the Discovery of Stone Tools and a Stratified Prehistoric Site on King Island, Bass Strait

Abstract

A short visit to Don Ranson's excavations at Sundown Point, northwest Tasmania, in January 1979, allowed me to take the newly established 'Executive Airlines' route from Wynyard to Melbourne via King Island. This initiative once more g.ives to the traveller the same access to King Island that earlier fliers enjoyed when bi-plane aircraft having much less range than the modem Fokkers or jets, had to stop at Currie for re-fuelling, the passengers being refreshed with afternoon tea in a small tea room on their way across the Strait (N.B. Tindale, field notes 9/4/1936).