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Royal Hobart Regatta
Summary
The Royal Hobart Regatta is a series of aquatic competitions and displays held annually in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and is Tasmania's oldest sporting event. The regatta began in 1838.
The event runs for three days and incorporates a public holiday observed in Southern Tasmania on the second Monday in February.
It is regularly well attended by the public in addition to local and interstate competitors
In its beginning the Regatta was well supported by the Royal Navy. In recent years the Royal Australian Navy, sends a warship to serve as flagship for the three day spectacle. The Royal Australian Air Force, also regularly aerobatic displays using military aircraft such as the RAAF Roulettes. The Australian Army's elite Red Beret parachute regiment has previously provided sky diving displays.
Governance of the Royal Hobart Regatta is executed by an association of the same name; The Royal Hobart Regatta Association.
The Association is controlled by a Board, Executive and Committee. The current president is Mr David Skegg.
On 1 December 1838, the first Hobart Town Anniversary Regatta was held in Hobart, Tasmania to celebrate the Tasmanian Anniversary of the 17th-century European discovery of the island by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642.
It was decided that an annual anniversary regatta should be celebrated and include the wearing of a sprig of silver wattle blossom tied with British Navy blue ribbon. A tradition instituted by Governor of Tasmania, Sir John Franklin.
Franklin provided free food and beer for all of the spectators, and the tradition of free entry continues to this day. The Monday was declared as a public holiday by the Governor and is now the oldest public holiday still continuing in Australia.
Since 1879 the regatta has been held in January or February, rather than December. The regatta of 6 February 1934 was the first to be called the Royal Hobart Regatta, the title being conferred by King George V.
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