Well-known venues for granite climbing include Yosemite, the Bugaboos, the Mont Blanc massif ( and peaks such as the Aiguille du Dru, the Mountains of Mourne, the Adamello-Presanella Alps, the Aiguille du Midi and the Grandes Jorasses ), the Bregaglia, Corsica, parts of the Karakoram ( especially the Trango Towers ), the Fitzroy Massif, Patagonia, Baffin Island, Ogawayama, the Cornish coast and the Cairngorms.

Port Fitzroy seen from the top of Kaikoura Island ( previously Selwyn Island ), 1967.

SeaLink operates the Island Navigator, a passenger, car and freight ferry, operating from Wynyard Wharf in Auckland city to Tryphena ( several times weekly ) and Port Fitzroy every Tuesday.

* Fitzroy Island

Fitzroy Island National Park is a gazetted protected area covering Fitzroy Island, Queensland ( also called Koba or Gabar ), a continental island located 22 kilometres east of Cairns, Queensland ( Australia ).

Welcome Bay, Fitzroy IslandFitzroy Island is a continental island, not a coral cay.

It became an island when sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age, flooding a plain between a hill that is now Fitzroy Island, and what is now Cape Grafton.

Coral Beach, Fitzroy Island

The Island has also been home to lighthouses warning ships in the Grafton Passage of the reefs around the island, and a small automatic light on Little Fitzroy Island, just off the north-east point, still serves this purpose.

Walking Trail, Fitzroy Island

There is a walking track that takes in the northern end of the island, the lighthouse on the north-west point which overlooks Little Fitzroy Island, and the island's peak, which offers stunning 360 degree views over the surrounding reefs and Cape Grafton.

Clownfish at Welcome Bay, Fitzroy Island

It is unlikely that box jellyfish would be encountered at Fitzroy Island due to the 4 km passage between the island and the mainland, but they have been found there occasionally, as well as other stinging jellyfish.

Sunset over Welcome Bay, Fitzroy IslandFitzroy Island Resort can be found on Welcome Bay.

Fitzroy Island is serviced by the Fitzroy Flyer, a power catamaran operating out of the Marlin Marina in Cairns.

* Queensland Placenames Listing for Fitzroy Island National Park Accessed 16 November 2007

Popular attractions include Riverbank Parklands, a riverfront parkland attraction located on the banks of Fitzroy River ; the Capricorn Coast, the coastal strip between Yeppoon and Emu Park and Great Keppel Island, a large neighbouring island off the Capricorn Coast, the vast majority of which is national park.

* June 8 – Argentine bombers destroy the British landing ship Sir Galahad and badly damage the landing ship Sir Tristram at Fitzroy on East Falkland Island, killing 51 men, 48 of them aboard Sir Galahad.

Melbourne, too, has lost venues, including the Continental in Prahran and the Punters Club in Fitzroy.

Fitzroy Maclean's autobiography Eastern Approaches has a chapter devoted to this trial, which he witnessed while working in Moscow for the British Foreign Office.

The gorge has been formed by the Fitzroy River and the level of the river in the wet season can rise by up to.

FitzRoy has been commemorated by the Fitzroy Building at the University of Plymouth, used by the School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Science.

* Virginia Woolf has a plaque where she lived between 1907-1911 in 29 Fitzroy Square, London, W1

The St Kilda Lawn Bowls Club on Fitzroy Street has a long history and retains its heritage clubhouse building as well as hosts many community events.

The Club is ruled by Anthony Shaw, a descendant of Sebastian Shaw ; he also has an illegitimate son, Trevor Fitzroy.

Scarred tree in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne | Fitzroy Gardens, the scar is left after a canoe has been cut out of the trunk

The Fitzroy Town Hall has been given over to the regional library and for use as a community space.

The suburb has a light rail station in the north at Fraser Street while the St Kilda Metropol light rail station is just outside the south east border as well as three additional tram superstops along Fitzroy Street

Since the amalgamation of the City of Fitzroy with the City of Collingwood and the City of Richmond in 1994 to form the City of Yarra, the Town Hall has functioned as secondary offices for the City of Yarra.

Fitzroy has a thriving street art community and is also the home of Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and the Centre for Contemporary Photography.

Fitzroy has a large number of pubs for such a small suburb.

The tiny suburb of Fitzroy has many cafes.

Fitzroy has also featured in episodes of a number of Australian TV shows, including City Homicide and Rush ( notably in Season 3, where the team shot at Fitzroy Town Hall to commemorate the death of a former colleague ).

Most notably, ARIA award winner Dan Sultan has the song Old Fitzroy, the black and white video for which is shot entirely in Fitzroy, featuring shots of and from Atherton Gardens, as well as shots of a number of Fitzroy pubs.

The City of Yarra also supports a car sharing service, which has several locations in Fitzroy.

Fitzroy North also has some distinctive apartment complexes, mostly built within the last 15 years.

North Fitzroy Primary School has received state media attention for its canteen's healthy menu.

In contrast, the Fitzroy Lions, a foundation club of the VFL / AFL, had been among the dregs of the league for the better part of the last four decades.

If not consumption or the historical English sweating sickness, it could have been a genetic condition that might also have been expressed in his nephews, Edward VI and Henry Fitzroy.

During this period Foxe also found a patron in Mary Fitzroy, Duchess of Richmond, who hired him as tutor to the orphan children of her brother, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, a Catholic who had been executed for treason in January 1547.

Some 987 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of the river's floodplain and delta have been classified by BirdLife International as the Fitzroy Floodplain and Delta Important Bird Area ( IBA ).

His son William inherited both dukedoms, but he had no issue, and since his uncle ( Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton ( died 1690 ), Barbara's 2nd son and his heirs male, had not been made eligible to inherit the peerage, the title became extinct upon his death.

It is said that Henry Fitzroy might have been made king had Henry VIII died without a legitimate son:

While much of Richmond, Fitzroy and Collingwood had been laid out by speculators anxious to increase profits, Clifton Hill was a professionally laid out suburb.

Recent residential projects in Fitzroy have sought to express a sense of Fitzroy's urban character in various ways and have been hotly contested in some cases.

A long tradition of community activism and civil society with many social and community service organisations having been based in Fitzroy.

The site of Fitzroy station has been redeveloped into a medium-density housing estate.

By sheer chance Fitzroy Kelly and Alexander Cockburn, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Lord Chief Justice of England respectively both died in 1880, allowing the merger of the common law judges under John Coleridge, who had been Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and became Lord Chief Justice of England, by an Order in Council of 16 December 1880.

The Merri Creek Trail shared pathway has been established along the banks to take advantage of the improving environment, but the path is broken at Westgarth and North Fitzroy, necessitating traversing St George's Road.

Since the introduction of these low floor Combino trams on the route, accessible stops have been built in Bourke Street, Fitzroy Street and St Kilda Esplanade, increasing customer safety and comfort.

Before the failed merger of Melbourne and Hawthorn, on 4 July 1996, the Fitzroy and Brisbane clubs had been merged by the directive of the AFL commission to take effect as the Brisbane Lions on 1st November 1996.

Duart fell into ruins but was restored early in the 20th century by Sir Fitzroy Donald MacLean and has been the seat of the clan chief since its reopening in 1912.

The hospital soon built up ties with the working class suburb of Fitzroy ( in which the hospital was located ), which had been deliberately selected by the founding sisters of the Hospital, with many of the poorer residents taking advantage of the advent of a charitable hospital opening up on their doorstep.