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

Fitzroy Island has been put to many uses by humankind.

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.

* 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.

Prominent street art precincts include ; Fitzroy, Collingwood, Northcote, Brunswick, St. Kilda and the CBD, where stencil and sticker art is prominent.

The Fitzroy Tavern is a pub situated at 16 Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district, to which it gives its name.

Of particular interest is the name Fitzroy, meaning " son ====

Her work is depicted in four stained glass windows in an adjoining hall at St Mark's Anglican Church in Fitzroy, Victoria.

The park is one of the most accessible in the Kimberley as it is only from Fitzroy Crossing and is serviced by a bitumen road.

The snorkelling at Fitzroy is greatly underrated.

The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League ( now the Australian Football League ) on its inception in 1897.

The city is located on the banks of the Fitzroy River, approximately 40 kilometres from the river mouth.

* The annual Brownlow Medal is awarded to Haydn Bunton senior ( Fitzroy )

St Kilda is home to many of Melbourne's famous visitor attractions including Luna Park, the Esplanade Hotel, Acland Street and Fitzroy Street.

A skate park for the Fitzroy street end of Albert Park is in the planning stages.

Summerland Mansions built in 1920 on Fitzroy Street is another notable block in the " mansion flats " style, a style rare in Melbourne.

It was an important way of connecting with Melbourne-based Lions fans, many of whom had previously supported Fitzroy, and of winning over disaffected Fitzroy fans who had not started supporting the Brisbane Lions post-merger by honouring the history of the club.

Essendon, having previously defeated both Fitzroy ( by 40 points ) and South Melbourne ( by 33 points ), clinched the premiership by means of a 20-point loss to Richmond.

With the Tigers having already lost a match to Fitzroy by a substantial margin the Dons were declared premiers by virtue of their superior percentage.

Later, as he was checking on Emma Frost who was in a comatose state after the mutant Trevor Fitzroy unleashed the mutant-hunting Sentinels on Emma Frost and her students known as the Hellions, the mansion was hit by an electricity breakdown.

* 1899 ( as South Melbourne ) – defeated by Fitzroy 3. 9 ( 27 ) to 3. 8 ( 26 )

The University was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act, on 24 September 1850 and was assented on 1 October 1850 by Sir Charles Fitzroy.

Henry did not acknowledge either child, as he did his son Henry Fitzroy, his illegitimate son by Elizabeth Blount, Lady Talboys.

# Barbara ( Benedicta ) Fitzroy ( 1672 – 1737 ) – She was probably the child of John Churchill, later Duke of Marlborough, who was another of Cleveland's many lovers, and was never acknowledged by Charles as his own daughter.

On March 26, 1885, the 150 to 200 Métis and Aboriginal warriors under the command of Gabriel Dumont defeated a combined group of 90 Prince Albert Volunteers and North-West Mounted Police led by their superintendent Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier at Duck Lake, outside Batoche.

The 1913 season saw major improvement in which the team qualified fourth, but were eventually beaten in the 1913 grand final by Fitzroy.

In 1900 Melbourne won its first VFL premiership, by defeating Fitzroy.

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

" Trevor-Roper, Hugh " pages 1204 – 1205 from The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing edited by Kelly Boyd, Volume 2 M-Z, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999, ISBN 1-884964-33-8.

In 1862, at the age of thirty, Orchardson moved to London, and established himself at 37 Fitzroy Square, where he was joined twelve months later by his friend John Pettie.

* The Fitzroy: The Autobiography of a London Tavern, by Lord Killanin, Sally Fiber, and Clive Powell-Williams.

Colin Wiggins, Paula Rego, Dictionary of Women Artists, Volume I, pp 1155 – 1159, edited by Delia Gaze, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London