The ''Zeehan and Dundas Herald'' (also seen as ''Zeehan Dundas Herald'') was a newspaper for the

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community, based in

Zeehan Zeehan is a town on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia south-west of Burnie. It is part of the West Coast Council, along with the seaport Strahan, and neighbouring mining towns of Dundas, Rosebery and Queenstown. History The greater ...

and Dundas from 1890 to 1922. It was published by William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden, with the

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catalogue stating that the first issues was dated Tuesday, 14 October 1890 while Blainey in

The Peaks of Lyell ''The Peaks of Lyell'' is a book by Geoffrey Blainey, based on his University of Melbourne MA thesis originally published in 1954. It contains the history of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, and through association, Queenstown, Tasma ...

has October 1891. Some notable people worked on the staff during the life of the newspaper;

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was editor between 1894 and 1899. The technology acquired for the printing of the newspaper was, during publication, up to date and unique in being located outside of the main Hobart – Launceston city environments. It ceased operating with volume 33, number 193, on 31 May 1922. It was operating in the early years (1890s) at the same time as the Queenstown based

Mount Lyell Standard The Mount Lyell Standard was a Queenstown based newspaper in Western Tasmania, that was contemporaneous with the ''Zeehan and Dundas Herald''. It was also known as the ''Mount Lyell Standard & Strahan gazette''. The newspaper operated between ...

, which ceased in 1902. It reported extensively on the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster and the subsequent inquiry following the disaster. Microform copies of the newspaper were made in the late twentieth century. In the 2000s (decade), family history enthusiasts have made copies of the newspapers birth, death and marriage entries for the full range of the newspapers existence. Subsequent west coast newspapers did not appear until later in the 20th century following the decline in the fortunes of Zeehan and Dundas and the exhaustion of the silver deposits in particular.

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*{{trove newspaper, 270, Zeehan and Dundas Herald, Tas. : 1890 - 1922

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