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South Bruny, Tasmania
South Bruny is a rural locality on Bruny Island in the local government area of Kingborough in the Hobart region of Tasmania. It is located about south of the town of Alonnah, the largest town on the island. The 2016 census determined a population of 84 for the state suburb of South Bruny. History South Bruny was gazetted as the locality of South Bruny Island in 1967, and re-gazetted with its current name in 1974. Geography The D'Entrecasteaux Channel forms much of the western boundary, and the Tasman Sea forms most of the eastern. Road infrastructure The B66 route (Bruny Island Main Road) enters from the north and runs west to Alonnah, then south to Lunawanna where it ends. Route C628 (Simpsons Bay Road) starts at an intersection with B66 and runs north to Simpsons Bay, where it ends. Route C630 (Adventure Bay Road) starts at an intersection with B66 and runs south to Adventure Bay, where it ends. Route C629 (Coolangatta Road) enters from Adventure Bay in the east and ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Australian Census
The 2016 Australian census was the 17th national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as – an increase of 8.8 per cent or people over the . Norfolk Island joined the census for the first time in 2016, adding 1,748 to the population. The ABS annual report revealed that $24 million in additional expenses accrued due to the outage on the census website. Results from the 2016 census were available to the public on 11 April 2017, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website, two months earlier than for any previous census. The second release of data occurred on 27 June 2017 and a third data release was from 17 October 2017. Australia's next census took place in 2021. Scope The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) states the aim of the 2016 Australian census is "to count every person who spent Census night, 9 August 2016, in Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Bay, Tasmania
Adventure Bay is the name of a locality, a township and a geographical feature on the eastern side of Bruny Island, Tasmania. At the , Adventure Bay had a population of 218. Early history The first European to sight the bay was explorer Abel Tasman, who sought to anchor his vessel ''Heemskerck'' there in 1642. Instead, ''Heemskerck'' was driven back offshore by a storm, in token of which Tasman named the place Storm Bay. Captain Tobias Furneaux renamed it in March 1773, in honour of his ship , which he had anchored in the bay for five days after becoming separated from Captain James Cook's during Cook's second voyage to the Pacific search of Terra Australis Incognita. Furneaux's log made clear the bay was an excellent anchorage for resupplying vessels:To the SW of the first watering place there is a large lagoon which I believe has plenty of fish in it for one of our Gentlemen caught upwards of 2 dozen trout, and shot a possum which was the only animal we saw. There are a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Localities Of Kingborough Council
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Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivision in rural areas of Australia Science * Locality (astronomy) * Locality of reference, in computer science * Locality (statistics) * Principle of locality, in physics See also * Local (other) * Type locality (other) Type locality may refer to: * Type locality (biology) * Type locality (geology) See also * Local (other) * Locality (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Bruny Lighthouse
The Cape Bruny Lighthouse is an inactive lighthouse located at the southern tip of Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia. Features and location It is the List of lighthouses in Australia, second oldest extant lighthouse tower in Australia, as well as having the longest (158 years) history of being continuously manned. It was first lit in March 1838 and was eventually decommissioned on 6 August 1996. The project was commissioned by Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet, Governor George Arthur in 1835 after a series of shipwrecks south of Bruny Island and construction began in April 1836. The lighthouse was built by convict labour using locally quarried Diabase, dolerite over two years. When first lit in March 1838 it was Tasmania's third lighthouse and Australia's fourth. Cape Bruny was initially illuminated by a Wilkins lantern, consuming one pint of Sperm oil, sperm whale oil per hour. In 1892, whale oil was replaced by better quality colza oil. In 1903 the original staircase was replac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmania
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Bruny Island
Bruny Island ( Nuenonne: Lunawanna-alonnah) is a island located off the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is separated from the Tasmanian mainland by the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, and its east coast lies within the Tasman Sea. Storm Bay is located to the island's northeast. Both the island and the channel are named after French explorer, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Its traditional Aboriginal name is lunawanna-allonah, which survives as the name of two island settlements, Alonnah and Lunawanna. Geography Geologically, Bruny Island is actually two land masses—North Bruny and South Bruny—that are joined by a long, narrow, sandy isthmus, often referred to as "The Neck". The island has a total length of approximately . The holiday village of Dennes Point is located in North Bruny, while South Bruny is the site of the towns of Alonnah, Adventure Bay and Lunawanna. Outside its settlements, the island is covered in grazing fields and large tracts o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunawanna, Tasmania
Lunawanna is a small township on the western side of Bruny Island, Tasmania, facing the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. It is named after part of the Tasmanian Aboriginal name for Bruny Island, Lunawanna-alonnah, a nearby township about to its north being named Alonnah. Lunawanna is in the federal electorate of Franklin, the Tasmanian House of Assembly division of Franklin, and the Tasmanian Legislative Council division of Huon. The Bruny Island local council amalgamated with Kingborough council in 1994 and Lunawanna is located in the Kingborough Council Kingborough Council is a local government body in Tasmania, and one of the five municipalities that constitutes the Greater Hobart Area. Kingborough is classified as an urban local government area and has a population of 37,734, it covers the ... local government area. Mrs Lue Lunawanna (Granddaughter of Eddie Lunawanna) wanted the State Government to name a small region on South Bruny after Mr Lunawanna to remember the Abori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Entrecasteaux Channel
The D'Entrecasteaux Channel is a body of water located between Bruny Island and the south-east of the mainland of Tasmania, Australia. The channel is the mouth for the estuaries of the Derwent and the Huon Rivers and empties into the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean. It was sighted by Abel Tasman in 1642 and surveyed in 1792 by Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Towns on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel include Snug, Margate, Kettering, Woodbridge, Flowerpot, Middleton and Gordon. History According to '' The Mercury'' newspaper, the channel "..... was discovered on April 20, 1792, by the celebrated French "Vice-Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux, who, in the ships ''Recherche'' and ''Esperance'', was searching for ill-fated ''La Perouse''. Visiting Van Diemen's Land for the first time, he was attempting to find an anchorage in Adventure Bay, when, being himself ill in bed, the ships' navigators entered the channel to the west of Bruny Island, instead of going to the eastward of it. Thus, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasman Sea
The Tasman Sea (Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1642 was the first known person to cross it. British explorer Lieutenant James Cook later extensively navigated the Tasman Sea in the 1770s during his three voyages of exploration. The Tasman Sea is informally referred to in both Australian and New Zealand English as the Ditch; for example, "crossing the Ditch" means travelling to Australia from New Zealand, or vice versa. The diminutive term "the Ditch" used for the Tasman Sea is comparable to referring to the North Atlantic Ocean as "the Pond". Climate The south of the sea is passed over by depressions going from west to east. The northern limit of these westerly winds is near to 40°S. During the southern winter, from April to October, the northern branch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobart LGA Region
Councils of Tasmania are the 29 administrative districts of the Australian States and territories of Australia, state of Tasmania. Local government in Australia, Local government areas (LGAs), more generally known as councils, are the tier of government responsible for the management of local duties such as road maintenance, Urban planning, town planning and waste management. Local government regions The local government areas of Tasmania are grouped into six regions: * Central * Hobart * Launceston * North-east * North-west and west * South-east Local government areas There are 29 local government areas of Tasmania: Towns and suburbs of councils areas The following is a list of councils areas grouped by region, and the major towns and suburbs within each LGA. Hobart area councils Greater Hobart contains six LGAs: *Brighton Council, containing the Hobart suburbs of Bridgewater, Tasmania, Bridgewater, Gagebrook, Tasmania, Gagebrook, Old Beach, Tasmania, Old Beach, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simpsons Bay, Tasmania
Simpsons Bay is a rural locality on Bruny Island in the local government area of Kingborough in the Hobart region of Tasmania. It is located about north-east of the town of Alonnah, the largest town on the island. The 2016 census has a population of 55 for the state suburb of Simpsons Bay. History Simpsons Bay was gazetted as a locality in 1967. Geography The D'Entrecasteaux Channel The D'Entrecasteaux Channel is a body of water located between Bruny Island and the south-east of the mainland of Tasmania, Australia. The channel is the mouth for the estuaries of the Derwent and the Huon Rivers and empties into the Tasman S ... forms much of the western boundary, all of the northern, and most of the eastern. Road infrastructure The C628 route (Simpsons Bay Road) enters from the south and runs north to the centre, where it ends. References Localities of Kingborough Council Towns in Tasmania Bruny Island {{Kingborough-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Bruny, Tasmania
North Bruny is a rural locality on Bruny Island in the local government area of Kingborough in the Hobart region of Tasmania. It is located about north-east of the town of Alonnah, the largest town on the island. The 2016 census determined a population of 95 for the state suburb of North Bruny. History North Bruny was gazetted as the locality of North Bruny Island in 1967, and re-gazetted with its current name in 1974. Geography The D'Entrecasteaux Channel The D'Entrecasteaux Channel is a body of water located between Bruny Island and the south-east of the mainland of Tasmania, Australia. The channel is the mouth for the estuaries of the Derwent and the Huon Rivers and empties into the Tasman S ... forms much of the western boundary, and Storm Bay is to the east. Road infrastructure The B66 route (Lennon Road / Bruny Island Main Road) starts at Roberts Point Boat Ramp in the west and runs east and then south before passing through Great Bay and exiting. Route C625 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
