*''See also the Australian federal electoral
Division of Darwin (1903–1955) for the electoral division now known as
Division of Braddon''
Darwin was a surveyed and short-lived community at the eastern side of
Mount Darwin on the
West Coast Range.
It was the location of a stopping place on the
North Mount Lyell Railway which ran between
Pillinger and
Gormanston.
Its post office opened on 21 February 1900 and closed in 1903.
It was the location of the first discoveries of
Darwin Glass during the construction of the railway, and the subsequent work to locate and identify the
Darwin Crater
Darwin Crater is a suspected meteorite impact crater in Western Tasmania about south of Queenstown, just within the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. The crater is expressed as a rimless circular flat-floored depression, in diame ...
some 60 years later.
Related railway stopping places
*
Gormanston railway station (existed on branch from Linda 1900–1903 only)
*
Linda (also known as ''North Lyell'')
*
Crotty (previous name ''King River'' until 1902)
* Crotty Smelters (siding)
* Darwin
* Ten Mile
*
Pillinger (Kelly Basin)
Notes
References
*
*
Whitham, Charles. ''Western Tasmania: A Land of Riches and Beauty.''
Ghost towns in Tasmania
Mining towns in Tasmania
West Coast Range
North Mount Lyell Railway
Localities of West Coast Council
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