Lughrata is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of
Flinders
Flinders may refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Flinders Peak, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
Australia New South Wales
* Flinders County, New South Wales
* Shellharbour Junction railway station, Shellharbour
* Flinders, New South Wa ...
in the
North-east LGA region of
Tasmania. The locality is about north-west of the town of
Whitemark. The
2016 census
Sixteen or 16 may refer to:
*16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17
*one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016
Films
* ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film
* ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film dir ...
recorded a population of 14 for the state suburb of Lughrata.
[
]
History
Lughrata was gazetted as a locality in 1970. It is believed to be an Aboriginal
Aborigine, aborigine or aboriginal may refer to:
*Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology
* Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area
*One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see ...
word for “hot”.
Geography
The waters of Bass Strait
Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterwa ...
form the western boundary.
Road infrastructure
Route B85 (Palana Road) runs through from south to north.
References
Towns in Tasmania
Flinders Island
{{Tasmania-geo-stub