Dinosaur Exhibition in Hobart Tasmania

As a model of enterprise in action, students at Hobart's Mt Carmel College are building an extensive Website  devoted to dinosaurs, which is expected to be ready for the opening of the Terrorsaurus Exhibition of life-size interactive dinosaurs to be held at Hobart's Princess Wharf No 2 from December 18 1999.

Walking with Dinosaurs

The Walking with Dinosaurs program shown on ABC- TV (Sunday 7/11/99 in Australia) was partly filmed in Tasmania, in the Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park.

David Attenborough and the BBC crew filmed the scenes there, because of the ground-crawling conifers and pencil pines which were around in the dinosaur age, and there were no flowering plants around in the Triassic-Jurassic period.

Tasmania and parts of South America are the only places in the world which suited the filming of Walking with Dinosaurs.  Fossil evidence dating back 50 million years showed parts of Tasmania retained a very close similarity to the dinosaur age and was used because of its natural beauty and the feel of the place.