Location ID: #10178345
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Kempton is bypassed by the Midlands Highway abouit an hour north of Hobart. It is an historic town, with some colonial mansions and churches, some in use and some privately owned.
Tasman Peninsula
Location ID: #10177821
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Eaglehawk Neck is the name of the narrow isthmus which connects the Tasman and Forestiere Peninsulas. It is also the site of the infamous 'Dog Line' which largely prevented convicts from escaping the Port Arthur Penitentiary to the south in the mid ...
Location ID: #10178351
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This church - St Paul's Anglican Church may have been sold recently.
Tasmanian Ghost towns - West Coast
Location ID: #10177589
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These sites are scattered around the mining towns of the West Coast - Queenstown, Zeehan, Gormanston and Linda.
Old Hobart jail, chapel and court house
Location ID: #10175000
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The Hobart Convict Penitentiary is owned and preserved by the National Trust of Tasmania. It contains a Courthouse, Chapel, Jail Cells, and a gallows.The Court Room is often used for theatrical productions and it open to the public for hiuded tours.
Location ID: #10146235
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Location ID: #10177649
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The rocks around Queenstown produced copper and gold and contaioned sulphur. Early miners burnt the trees around the town for feeding the smelters. The mountains of the West Coast of Tasmania are in the path of cold fronts coming from the Great ...
Location ID: #10178349
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Oatlands is an historic village on the Midlands Highway an hour north of Hobart.
Location ID: #10183710
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Location ID: #10164077
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Tahune was owned by Forestry Tasmania (a Tasmanian Government Business Enterprise, but has been sold to a private company. It has a steel tree-top walkway some 50 metres high, and is very close to the Huon River. Tahune also has walks through the ...
Location ID: #10183111
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The Gordon Dam is a 140 metre high concrete wall, holding back some of the water of the Gordon River for hydro power generation. The nearest town, Strathgordon, was the construction village for the dam. It now houses very few people and the Pedder ...
Location ID: #10182561
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This church was photographed in 2009. It is presumed to still be there.
Location ID: #10177750
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St Helens is a fishing port as well as the tourism and administration centre and for the north-east of Tasmania.
Location ID: #10177751
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Binalong Bay is reached via St Helens. It is a small village of restarurants and coffee shops with Short and Long Stay properties. Binalong Bay is just over 10 kms (11 minutes) from the much larger town of St Helens.
Location ID: #10176061
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Bicheno is a tourist and fishing town on the beautiful East Coast of Tasmania. It is around 180 kms north-east of Hobart or 160 kms south east of Launceston.
Location ID: #10176285
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Cradle Mountain is spectacluar in all seasons, not just winter. It is part of the Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park and the South-West World Heritage Area. Lakes, mountains, cool temperate rainforest, strange pandani forests and alpine ...
Location ID: #10162930
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Hollybanks is under the care of Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service but managed by Sustainable Timbers Tasmania. The reserve has exotic and native trees, bike tracks, picnic areas, drystone walls and some intertesting picnic huts.
Location ID: #10132415
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The Tasman Peninsula has a great many unusual rock formations. Cliffs, sea stacks (like The Candlestick and The Totem Pole) and strange-looking islands (The Lanterns) all contribute to an other-world look. The seas off the Peninsula are home to ...
Location ID: #10157114
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This area is button grass swamp lands under Mt King William.
Location ID: #10128924
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Cape Bruny Lighthouse was first lit in 1838. It was Tasmania's 3rd lighthouse and Australia's 4th. It was designed by colonial architect, John Lee Archer. The lighthouse is 13 metres high and was decommissioned in 1996. It is now part of Bruny ...
Location ID: #10128920
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Bay of Fires is a conservation area managed by the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service. It has long white-sand beaches with the occasional rocky outcrop. It was given this name by Captain Tobias Furneaux in 1773 when he saw many fires lit by ...
Location ID: #10128922
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Boat Harbour is a secluded town on the waters of Bass Strait in north-western Tasmania. It is part of the Waratah-Wynyard Council (local government area). Boat Harbour is a tourist destination - but usually for Tasmanians. Not many people from ...
Location ID: #10129369
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Mt William National Park is the northern section of the Bay of Fires - in the far north east of Tasmania. Long white-sand beaches, granite rocks covered in orange lichen, coastal heathland and woodlands are inhabited by a wide variety of animals. ...
Location ID: #10129329
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Hamilton is in the area known as the Derwent Valley. It is on the River Clyde, a tributary of the Derwent. It is a small village which has a number of sandstone Georgian and Victorian cottages and more substantial buildings.