Ansons Bay is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of
Break O'Day in the
North-east LGA region of
Tasmania
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. The locality is about north of the town of
St Helens. The
2021 census recorded a population of 62 for the state suburb of Ansons Bay.
It is both a geographical feature and a small
township
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on the extreme north-east coast of Tasmania.
The bay has notable tidal sandflats.
For much of the 20th century the timber industry was predominant but it is now mostly involved in fishing and tourism. The Ansons Bay postcode was changed from 7216 to 7264 in 2009 because the mail service is now via
Gladstone rather than
St Helens.
History
Ansons Bay was gazetted as a locality in 1968. Several origins of the name have been suggested, including William J Anson (the first surgeon in the Derwent settlement) and Admiral
George Anson.
Another suggestion is that surveyor
Charles Gould named the area after an early settler.
Ansons Bay Receiving House (a private post office) opened on 15 December 1913 and closed around 1917.
Geography
The waters of the
Bay of Fires
The Bay of Fires (palawa kani: ''larapuna)'' is a bay on the northeastern coast of Tasmania in Australia, extending from Binalong Bay to Eddystone Point. The bay was given its name in 1773 by Captain Tobias Furneaux in ,
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, part of the
Tasman Sea
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, form the eastern boundary. Ansons Bay (the body of water) is joined to the ocean by a narrow channel and is almost completely surrounded by the locality.
Road infrastructure
Route C843 (Ansons Bay Road) enters from the south and runs through to the north where it meets North Ansons Road at a T junction, where it turns left and runs north-west until it exits. Route C846 (Eddystone Point Road) starts at an intersection with C843 and runs along part of the northern boundary.
References
Towns in Tasmania
North East Tasmania
Bays of Tasmania
Localities of Break O'Day Council
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