Rosny, Tasmania
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| Coordinates: 42°52′24″S 147°21′17″E / 42.87333°S 147.35472°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Tasmania | ||||||||||||
| City | Hobart | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 0.776 km2 (0.300 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Elevation | 46 m (151 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 842 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 7018 | ||||||||||||
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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 River Derwent, between the suburbs of Montagu Bay and Rosny Park, approximately 4 kilometres from Hobart's centre. Rosny is the residential part of its commercial namesake Rosny Park.
Rosny is a scenic, quiet residential area, with sweeping views of the River Derwent and its estuary, the Tasman Bridge and Mount Wellington, and looks directly across the river to the CBD of Hobart. It is located on a narrow peninsula which juts out from the eastern shore at Rosny Point and climbs the rising slopes of Rosny Hill.
Rosny Children's Choir
Rosny was named for a family name of W.A. Bethune, the holder of the original grant on the point, and he named it after his ancestor, the Duc de Maximilien de Bethune Sully, of Rosny-sur-Seine near Mantes in France.[2]
Rosny was the founding home of the Australian Rosny Children's Choir. The choir was established in 1967 by local music teacher Jennifer Filby, who initially had her students perform carols at an end-of-year recital. Following this success, she was invited to provide a children's chorus for a production of The King and I at the Theatre Royal in Hobart, leading to the formal creation of the choir.[3]
The choir quickly gained national and international recognition. In 1971, it became the first choir from the Southern Hemisphere to perform at the prestigious Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales. As part of the Australian government's inaugural cultural exchange with the People’s Republic of China, the choir made history in 1975 as the first Australian group to perform in China, with concerts in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and a stopover in British Hong Kong.[4]
In addition to its international tours to Japan (1987) and across Australia, the choir performed widely within Tasmania. It frequently collaborated with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and commissioned significant Australian works, including There is an Island (1977) by composer Don Kay with libretto by Clive Sansom.[5]
Today
In 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census, the suburb of Rosny had a population of 771 persons and 353 private dwellings.[6]
Much of Rosny is given over to thick groves of local she-oaks, which line the foreshore, interspersed with radiating residential streets. The Rosny Point Reserve, owned by the Clarence City Council covers 7.8 hectares, but does not include the strip of land adjoining the river which is a Public Reserve under the Crown Land Act (6.7 hectares). Rosny Hill Nature Recreation Area (21.4 hectares), under the authority of the Parks and Wildlife Service but managed by the City of Clarence, occupies the hill top. Approximately 46 percent of the total land area of 76.6 hectares of Rosny is reserved land.
Rosny Hill Recreation Area itself is also covered in native vegetation and, although not particularly high at 94.25 metres at the Survey Control Site,[7] its position jutting out into the river provides views from the lookout that skirts the top of the hill.
There are five vegetation communities[8] within the Rosny Hill Nature Recreation Area: Grassy Eucalyptus viminalis woodland, Inland Acacia verticillata low fores, Lowland Themeda grassland, Lowland grassland complex and Bursaria-acacia woodland and scrub.[9] There are several rare and threatened native plant species,[8] including Leafy sun orchid (Thelymitra bracteata), Grassland flax lily (Dianella amoena), Spear grass (Austrostipa nodosa), Tall wallaby grass (Austrodanthonia induta), Shade peppercress (Ledidium pseudotasmanicum), and Narrow leaf New Holland daisy (Vittadinia muelleri).
