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Adventure Bay
Adventure Bay Tasmania
Adventure Bay, the large bay on the eastern side of the isthmus that joins North and South Bruny Island,…
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Alexandra Battery Lookout
alexandra battery lookout hobart
The Hobart coastal defences are a network of now defunct coastal batteries, some of which are inter-linked with tunnels,…
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Bridestowe Lavender Estate
296 Gillespies Rd Nabowla, Tasmania
Bridestowe Lavender Estate at Nabowla is one of the most beautiful sights in Tasmania during December and January. Entry…
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Bruny Island
Bruny Island Tasmania
Across the D’Entrecasteaux Channel a short drive south of Hobart, Bruny Island is effectively two quite different islands…
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Butler Island and the Franklin River
Strahan, Tasmania
Butler Island on the Gordon River, or more precisely, a stunning image of it, played a major role in…
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Cascades Female Factory
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…
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Darlington Probation Station
Maria Island, Tasmania
Darlington Precinct, located on Maria Island off the east coast of Tasmania, offers a glimpse into our convict past…
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Eaglehawk Neck
Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania
As its name suggests, Eaglehawk Neck is a narrow isthmus, it separates Pirates Bay and the Tasman Sea to…
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Forest EcoCentre, Scottsdale
96 King St, Scottsdale tasmania
The Forest EcoCentre at Scottsdale houses an interactive forest interpretation centre that focuses on the landscape, forest communities and…
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Highfield historic farm
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…
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Kangaroo Bluff Battery
kangaroo bluff bellerive tasmania
Kangaroo Bluff, one the eastern shores of the Derwent River estuary, is the site of one of a number…
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Maria Island
Maria Island, Tasmania
Maria Island is a unique location where the visitor feels they have left civilization behind and stepped into another…
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Marion Bay
Marion Bay, tasmania
The sands of Marion Bay, to the immediate north of Forestier Peninsula in Tasmania’s south east corner, forms some…
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Norfolk Bay
Norfolk Bay, Tasmania
Port Arthur is not the only convict related relic on Tasman Peninsula. Convict-built out-stations still stand at Saltwater River,…
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Port Arthur
Port Arthur, Tasmania
Of all the convict related historic sites around Australia, none so graphically tell the story of Australia’s convict past…
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Premaydena
Premaydena, Tasmania
Premaydena is a small village idyllically situated on Impression Bay on the shores of Norfolk Bay. Dolphins and seals are seen…
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Princes Square, Launceston
Launceston, Tasmania
Originally a clay-pit where convicts made bricks for the construction of St Johns Church, Princes Square is an extraordinary…
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Recherche Bay and Cockle Creek
Cockle Creek, Tasmania
A quiet, idyllic bay in the far south of Tasmania beyond the Huon Valley. There are a three small…
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Risdon Cove
risdon cove tasmania
Risdon Cove historic area is the site of first European settlement in Tasmania. The settlement had what could best…
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