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Adventure Bay

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Adventure Bay Tasmania

Adventure Bay, the large bay on the eastern side of the isthmus that joins North and South Bruny Island,...

Alexandra Battery Lookout

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alexandra battery lookout hobart

The Hobart coastal defences are a network of now defunct coastal batteries, some of which are inter-linked with tunnels,...

Blue Tier

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Blue Tier, Tasmania

The Blue Tier in Tasmania’s North East Highlands was an unknown little part of the world until it became...

Bridestowe Lavender Estate

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296 Gillespies Rd Nabowla, Tasmania

Bridestowe Lavender Estate at Nabowla is one of the most beautiful sights in Tasmania during December and January. Entry...

Bruny Island

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Bruny Island Tasmania

Across the D’Entrecasteaux Channel a short drive south of Hobart, Bruny Island is effectively two quite different islands connected...

Butler Island and the Franklin River

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Strahan, Tasmania

Butler Island on the Gordon River, or more precisely, a stunning image of it, played a major role in...

Carrick

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Carrick, Tasmania

Carrick, a pretty Georgian era village on the Liffey River, plays host to a number of events including Agfest...

Cascades Female Factory

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16 Degraves St, South Hobart tasmania

Cascades Female Factory was a work factory which employed female convicts under sentence in the colony and housed them...

Darlington Probation Station

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Maria Island, Tasmania

Darlington Precinct, located on Maria Island off the east coast of Tasmania, offers a glimpse into our convict past...

Eaglehawk Neck

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Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania

As its name suggests, Eaglehawk Neck is a narrow isthmus, it separates Pirates Bay and the Tasman Sea to...

Forest EcoCentre, Scottsdale

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96 King St, Scottsdale tasmania

The Forest EcoCentre at Scottsdale houses an interactive forest interpretation centre that focuses on the landscape, forest communities and...

Highfield historic farm

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Highfield, Green Hills Road, Stanley, tasmania

Highfield historic farm was built in 1832-1835 for the chief agent of the Van Diemen’s Company, which opened up...

Jericho

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Jericho, tasmania

Founded in 1816, the tiny historical village of Jericho is one of the oldest townships in Australia. Like its...

Kangaroo Bluff Battery

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Kangaroo Bluff, one the eastern shores of the Derwent River estuary, is the site of one of a number...

Longford

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Longford, Tasmania

A quiet, inland locality that has been classified as an historic town, Longford is located close to Launceston in...

Maria Island

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Maria Island, Tasmania

Maria Island is a unique location where the visitor feels they have left civilization behind and stepped into another...

Marion Bay

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Marion Bay, tasmania

The sands of Marion Bay, to the immediate north of Forestier Peninsula in Tasmania’s south east corner, forms some...

Navigators Port Arthur Cruise

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Brooke Street, Hobart, Tasmania

The traditional way to get to Port Arthur from Hobart is to drive. There is another way – take...

Norfolk Bay

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Norfolk Bay, Tasmania

Port Arthur is not the only convict related relic on Tasman Peninsula. Convict-built out-stations still stand at Saltwater River,...

Nubeena

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Nubeena, Tasmania

This is a small, sleepy and attractive holiday and fishing village, in spite of being the largest town on the...

Port Arthur

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Port Arthur, Tasmania

Of all the convict related historic sites around Australia, none so graphically tell the story of Australia’s convict past...

Premaydena

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Premaydena, Tasmania

Premaydena is a small village idyllically situated on Impression Bay on the shores of Norfolk Bay. Dolphins and seals are seen...

Princes Square, Launceston

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Launceston, Tasmania

Originally a clay-pit where convicts made bricks for the construction of St Johns Church, Princes Square is an extraordinary...

Recherche Bay and Cockle Creek

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Cockle Creek, Tasmania

A quiet, idyllic bay in the far south of Tasmania beyond the Huon Valley. There are a three small...

Risdon Cove

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risdon cove tasmania

Risdon Cove historic area is the site of first European settlement in Tasmania. The settlement had what could best...