Lindisfarne is a suburb of Hobart

Hobart

Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...

's Eastern Shore, located approximately 6 kilometres from the City Centre and is part of the municipal City of Clarence.

History

The suburb originally took its name from Lindisferne House, (Note: Suburb originally spelt incorrectly), a property built in the 1820s near the suburb of Rosny

Rosny, Tasmania

Rosny is a suburb of the City of Clarence, part of the greater Hobart area, Tasmania, Australia. It is located on the eastern shore of the Derwent River, between the suburbs of Montagu Bay and Rosny Park, approximately 4 kilometres from Hobart's centre. Rosny is the residential part of its...

. At one time the suburb was known as Beltana from 1892, but, because of confusion with Bellerive

Bellerive, Tasmania

Bellerive is a suburb of the City of Clarence, part of the greater Hobart area, Tasmania, Australia. It stretches from Kangaroo Bay where it borders Rosny Park, around the curved shoreline of Bellerive Esplanade to Kangaroo Bluff, then down to Bellerive Beach and east to Second Bluff, where...

, it was renamed Lindisfarne in 1903 after Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England. It is also known as Holy Island and constitutes a civil parish in Northumberland...

 a tidal Island (Holy Island) in Northumberland

Northumberland

Northumberland is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in North East England. For Eurostat purposes Northumberland is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "Northumberland and Tyne and Wear" NUTS 2 region...

, England. The easternmost part of the middle of the suburb, where the Beltana Bowls Club and the Beltana Hotel are located, is still locally known as Beltana.

Lindisfarne Bay and Boating

Lindisfarne is centred around a bay of the same name that is one of many such sheltered anchorages on the Derwent River

Derwent River (Tasmania)

The Derwent is a river in Tasmania, Australia. It was named after the River Derwent, Cumbria by British Commodore John Hayes who explored it in 1793. The name is Brythonic Celtic for "valley thick with oaks"....

. The bay is home to a number of clubs that cater for rowing, sailing and motor-cruising the local waterways.

The Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania in Lindisfarne Bay(pictured), The Lindisfarne Sailing Club and the Lindisfarne Rowing Club (the club of rowers Scott Brennan

Scott Brennan (rower)

Scott Brennan is an Australian rower.Brennan took up rowing in 1995 whilst at St Virgil's College in Hobart, where he eventually became captain of the school in 1998...

 and Stephen Hawkins

Stephen Hawkins

Stephen Mark Hawkins OAM is an Australian rower. He won a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.-References:...

) are all situated on the bay's foreshore.

Sports

In addition there is also a large recreation park which includes playing fields - home to the Lindisfarne Blues

Lindisfarne Blues

The Lindisfarne Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

 competing in the Southern Tasmanian Football League now known as the SFL and the Lindisfarne Cricket Club

Lindisfarne Cricket Club

Lindisfarne Cricket Club , also known as "The Lightning", is a grade level cricket club representing Lindisfarne in Tasmania's Grade Cricket Competition. TheLCC play their home games at Anzac Park, in Lindisfarne, a suburb of the City of Clarence.....

 competing in the Tasmanian Grade Cricket

Tasmanian Grade Cricket

Tasmanian Grade Cricket, or the Tasmanian Grade Competition, refers to the hierarchically graded cricket competitions played in Tasmania, Australia...

 part of the Tasmanian Cricket Association, tennis courts - home to the Lindisfarne Tennis Club, Beltana RSL

Returned and Services League of Australia

The Returned and Services League of Australia is a support organisation for men and women who have served or are serving in the Australian Defence Force ....

 Bowls Club links and a ANZAC memorial park, all situated on a bluff overlooking the Derwent River

Derwent River (Tasmania)

The Derwent is a river in Tasmania, Australia. It was named after the River Derwent, Cumbria by British Commodore John Hayes who explored it in 1793. The name is Brythonic Celtic for "valley thick with oaks"....

 and Mount Wellington

Mount Wellington (Tasmania)

Mount Wellington is a mountain on whose foothills is built much of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is often referred to simply as 'the Mountain' by the residents of Hobart, and it rises to AHD over the city....

. The memorial park is also the site of a large Tasmanian Aboriginal midden

Midden

A midden, is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, vermin, shells, sherds, lithics , and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occupation...

.

Retirement Villages

Lindisfarne is also home to a number of large retirement villages

Retirement community

A retirement community, or active adult community, is a very broad, generic term that covers many varieties of housing for retirees and seniors - especially designed or geared for people who no longer work, or restricted to those over a certain age . It differs from a retirement home which is a...

 and similar senior-citizen accommodations. Including the Queen Victoria Home and the Freemasons' Homes of Southern Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

.

Christian Links

Some Christian Church

Christian Church

The Christian Church is the assembly or association of followers of Jesus Christ. The Greek term ἐκκλησία that in its appearances in the New Testament is usually translated as "church" basically means "assembly"...

 institutions in Lindisfarne take their names from the saints and scholars of the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England. It is also known as Holy Island and constitutes a civil parish in Northumberland...

, such as St Aidan's Anglican Church and St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School.

Education

Schools in Lindisfarne include St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Lindisfarne North Primary School and Lindisfarne State Primary School. Early development classes are held at the Kinder Cottage.

External links

• Australian National Place Names page 10 Dec 2004 Crisis in Identity retrieved June 2009