NA ="Port Huon, Ranleagh, Huonville, Cradoc, Galaziers Bay,  Petchys Bay, Gardners Bay,";
FE1[0]=" The beautiful Huon Valley, with its maze of hills and valleys intertwined with fingers of ocean, produces surprisingly rich Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. It lies perilously close to the 50th parallel, the point beyond which wine-maki";
FE2[0]="ng is meant to become a very hard struggle. However these most southerly vineyards produce a greater weight of flavour and local character. There's no great mountain range to protect it from the south-westerlies which blow in fres";
FE3[0]="h from the Antarctic and the Great Southern Ocean. Sure, grapes ripen slowly (a good thing for flavour development) and harvest time is late, between mid April and early May. However, careful site selection and proximity to river ";
FE4[0]="estuaries help the vine grower to tap the long summertime sunshine hours whilst providing refuge from springtime frost and wind. The climate of the region is similar to Europe's famous wine areas. Pinots from the Huon Valley speak";
FE5[0]=" eloquently in rich spiced-cherry tones whilst rapier sharp chardonnays and lighter style, aromatic Rieslings are typically the best of the whites. The best and most renowned sparkling wine is made at the hands of Stefano Lubiana.";
FE6[0]=" None of the region's vineyards are large by mainland standards, which means the tourist is likely to engage one active family participant in wine production. The major industries of the Huon region are tourism, agriculture, aquac";
FE7[0]="ulture and forestry. This region produced four gold medal pinot winners at the 2002 Tasmanian Wines Show - from Elsewhere, No Regrets, Two Bud Spur and Panorama Vineyards. The 2000 Two Bud Spur is already sold out, but to taste a ";
FE8[0]="range of hard-to-find Tasmanian wines visit the Hartz-view Wine Centre. For lunch with a Tasmanian food focus, try Home Hill Winery - beautifully situated with vineyard and mountain views. There are eight wineries in this region w";
FE9[0]="ithin an hour's drive from Hobart.  ";
LA1[0]=" The Huon River estuary is a typical drowned river valley in the southeast of Tasmania. The Huon River catchment extends some 3041 square kilometres into the Southwest World Heritage Area, with its head-waters at Lake Pedder and th";
LA2[0]="e Arthur Plains. It is one of the largest river systems of Tasmania. The geology of the Huon River estuary and its environs is dominated by flat lying Permo-Triassic sedimentary rocks and Jurassic dolerite. Highly significant expo";
LA3[0]="sures of Cretaceous alkaline intrusive rocks outcrop sporadically on the shore platforms between Lower Wattle Grove and Deep Bay. Significant exposures of Permian sediments outcrop just north of Wattle Grove and immediately west o";
LA4[0]="f Deep Bay. During the height of the glaciations over the last two million years sea levels dropped considerably and both the Huon and the Derwent estuaries were exposed. In general terms, the regional geology is split between a w";
LA5[0]="estern zone of ancient Precambrian formations and an eastern zone of younger Parmeener Supergroup sequences with Jurassic dolerite intrusives. The western drainage divide of the Picton River marks this change in geological type. T";
LA6[0]="he topography in the west is mature with extensive erosion by the main river systems. As well as this, there is lake formation from glaciation, peri-glacial processes and karst formation. To the east, extensive areas of Permo-Tria";
LA7[0]="ssic sediments have been intruded by dolerite sheets, dykes and sills to produce such high altitude dolerite areas as the Hartz Mts and the Snowy Range. Otherwise, this region is characterised by hills and broad valleys. Wineries ";
LA8[0]="in the Huon valley are established on Brown Sodosol on Triassic sandstone - sandy loams over prismatic structured clays on sandstone rocks. Other soils - Brown Dermosols and Podosols are found on the slopes, sand dunes and sand sh";
LA9[0]="eets bordering major rivers - Deep sandy profile with good to low nutrient status or clay loam textures on Jurassic dolerite.";
CL1[0]=" The Huon River Valley area is subject to a cool temperate maritime climate dominated by westerly to north-westerly winds. Cool mornings result in katabatic air movements, in a westerly direction down the many valleys in the region";
CL2[0]=". In summer the area is influenced by afternoon sea breezes. The mean maximum air temperatures throughout the region generally range from 12°C in July to 22°C in February. The mean minimum temperatures range from 11°C in February ";
CL3[0]="to about 4°C in June/July. Frosts are rare.  The average annual rainfall is around 850 mm and relatively uniform throughout the year, peaking in July to October and is lowest in February. In the Huon River catchment the average an";
CL4[0]="nual rainfall is over 2000 mm in the west and 800 mm in the east. There is an average of 4/5 clear days in late summer and autumn (Jan-March), falling to 2/3 days in Spring (Sept-Nov). The seaside influence and hence aspect and ex";
CL5[0]="posure to the sea or water is the key to success as is the long sunshine hours in Autumn. This is not true in all subregions in the area, for example the upper Derwent Valley is subject to minimal maritime effects.";
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HI1[0]=" In 1788 when Captain Cook landed at Adventure Bay on Bruny Island in the Huon area. Eleven years later, Lieutenant Bligh in the Bounty visited Adventure Bay and planted some apple trees - the beginning of an industry. In 1793 Brun";
HI2[0]="i D'Entrecasteaux visited the area and named Kermandie (ec), Esperance Bay and Recherche Bay after his two ships; D'Entrecasteaux Channel and Port du Cygnes (place of swans). In 1802 Commodore Baudin visited Port Cygnet and named ";
HI3[0]="the Fleurieu River (later Anges Rivulet). The first settler was William Nichols who sailed around the coast from Browns River (Kingston) where he had a property. He liked the area and in 1834 brought his wife and children to settl";
HI4[0]="e along the river valley through which a stream later named Nicholls Rivulet, flowed on toward the bay. In 1845 Probation Stations for convicts were established at Port Cygnet, Lymington and Nicholls Rivulet and Huon Island. At it";
HI5[0]="s peak there were 333 convicts stationed in the district and a hospital was being built at Lymington where the staff were based. But by 1853 the Probation Stations were gone, and many new settlers were attracted to Port Cygnet. In";
HI6[0]=" 1862 the town of Lovett was proclaimed and the area began to flourish. The name of Port Cygnet was retained for the bay. Fruit and timber have always been the mainstay of the district. In 1935, Cygnet produced 644,800 bushels of ";
HI7[0]="apples, 27,170 bushels of pears, 5,470 lbs of gooseberries, 31,890 lbs of blackcurrants, 100,750 lbs of raspberries, 160,880 lbs of strawberries. In the 1980s the Tasmanian wine industry was becoming recognized as producing a high";
HI8[0]=" quality product. The Pattersons' owners of the Hartzview property, who had been growing fruit, realised the proven production potential for intensive horticulture. They collected two years of climatic data. This showed similariti";
HI9[0]="es with the Champagne region in France. In 1988 Hartzview Vineyard was modeled on that district, and the Pinot Noir vines were planted. Elsewhere vineyard was established in 1984 and Home Hills in 1993.";