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An Apollonaut travel guide
Moments in a longer story.
Selected milestones in the history of the Tasmanian Devil Unzoo.
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Farm, park and Unzoo
These dates describe the place you can learn about here. They are not a company timeline for Apollonaut.
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1978
A farm at Taranna
The Hamilton family buys Brooklands, a farm with apple and pear orchards.
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1979
The devil park opens
The Tasmanian Devil Park opens to the public; its first devils are orphans.
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1980
Breeding begins
The park’s first captive-bred devils arrive.
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2007
An Unzoo plan
The zoo designer Jon Coe draws up an Unzoo master plan with John Hamilton.
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2010
The fences come down
Stage one is finished: boundary fences removed and natural habitats planted.
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2014
A new name
The park becomes the Tasmanian Devil Unzoo.
Follow the stories behind the dates
A timeline is a beginning. The longer history introduces the people and the place; the sources below provide further context.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.