Travel Guide Ouse

Like so many towns on the Derwent River, Ouse was explored and settled soon after the establishment of the colony of Hobart. However, settlers did not move into the area until the 1820s. In March 1928, two convicts, James Goodwin and Thomas Connolly, who had escaped from Sarah Isand were the first Europeans to cross the Lake St Clair area. Their names still ring out in Ouse because that is where they were separated. Connolly was never recaptured and Goodwin, because of his feat of endurance and unique experience in the wilderness, was pardoned and sent on several surveying expeditions.