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Hobart, Australia

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    (1803- )
    Capital of Tasmania
    Located on the River Derwent
    Located near Kunanyi/Mount Wellington
    Population: 246,970 (2020)
    Points of interest include Salamanca Place, Theatre Royal, Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
    Has five sister cities: Yaizu, Japan; L'Aquila, Italy; Xi'an, China; Fuzhou, China and Barile, Italy

Why Hobart, Australia might be annoying:

    It was first set up as a penal colony.
    It was once used as a whaling port.
    It averages 5.9 hours of sunshine a day.
    The population of the Mouheneener tribe rapidly dropped due to infections brought by European settlement.
    It was hit by an economic depression and its population went down in the late 19th century.
    It has been visited by several bushfires.
    It is among one of the least populated state capital cities in Australia.
    12 people were killed as the SS Lake Illawarra collided into the Tasman Bridge, a section of which collapsed into the the Derwent River (January 5, 1975).

Why Hobart, Australia might not be annoying:

    The Mouheneener tribe lived here for 35,000 years.
    It is the birthplace of actor Errol Flynn and Nobel Prize-winning biological researcher Elizabeth Blackburn.
    It is the finishing location of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
    Australia's first casino was built here.
    Charles Darwin took a visit here while in the expedition of the HMS Beagle (1836).
    Roald Amundsen took a stop here following his success in reaching the South Pole in Antarctica (1911).
    The Salamanca Market opens every Saturday since 1972.
    It has the largest private museum in the Southern Hemisphere, the Museum of Old and New Art.
    It preserved its Georgian and Victorian style buildings to boost tourism.

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