Hobart’s sustainability profile Developing the profile To develop the sustainability profile below, the Hobart Assessment Panel met initially in a half-day workshop in 2017 to conduct the Hobart assessment. It was done initially as a Rapid Assessment by 17 experts in Hobart, part of the larger Critical Reference Group, each with expertise across the four […]
Punta Arenas Punta Arenas (population 125,000) was founded in 1848 as a penal colony by the Chilean government, and later served as destination for the settlement of European immigrants. Until the construction of the Panama Canal in 1910, its port was key in the commercial route linking the Atlantic and the Pacific. Punta Arenas was […]
Cape Town Cape Town (population 3.75 million) has a completely different history to the other four gateway cities. Founded in 1652 as a key site in the commercial route between Europe and the East Indies, Cape Town is an order of magnitude bigger than the next largest gateway and is one of the most multicultural […]
Hobart Hobart (population 225,000) was founded in 1803, also as a penal colony. It’s Australia’s second-oldest capital city after Sydney. It has the most complete infrastructure of any gateway city, hosting the largest critical mass of Antarctic scientists and scholars anywhere in the world with world-class research and education institutions. This is the result of […]