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Oyster Cove is a semi-rural locality in the local government areas (LGA) of
Kingborough 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 ...
and Huon Valley in the
Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...
and South-east LGA regions of Tasmania. The locality is about south-west of the town of
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. The
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has a population of 319 for the state suburb of Oyster Cove.


History

Oyster Cove was gazetted as a locality in 1968. It was originally a convict station. In 1847, 47 Aboriginal Tasmanians that had survived forced removal from the Tasmanian mainland to Wybalenna, Flinders Island, were moved to Oyster Cove. The locality was returned to the indigenous people of Tasmania in 1995 under the
Aboriginal Lands Act 1995 The ''Aboriginal Lands Act 1995'' is a statute passed by the Parliament of Tasmania The Parliament of Tasmania is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Tasmania. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consi ...
, and in 1999 Oyster Cove was declared an Indigenous Protected Area. Oyster Cove Post Office opened in 1897 and closed in 1924. It re-opened in 1927 and closed in 1964. In 1894, teacher Lily Poulett-Harris established the first woman's
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
league in Australia at Oyster Cove, The Oyster Cove Ladies Club.


Geography

The shore of the D’Entrecasteaux Channel forms the eastern boundary.


Road infrastructure

The
Channel Highway The Channel Highway is a regional highway that travels south from Hobart To Huonville, Tasmania, Australia. The Channel Highway starts from the end of Sandy Bay Road and travels south toward Huonville via Taroona, Kingston, Huntingfield, M ...
(Route B68) passes through from north to south. Route C626 (Nicholls Rivulet Road) starts at an intersection with B68 and runs west until it exits.


See also

*
English Passengers ''English Passengers'' () is a 2000 historical novel written by Matthew Kneale, which won that year's Whitbread Book Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. It is narrated by 20 different characters and ...
by Matthew Kneale


References

{{Southern Tasmania , state=autocollapse Southern Tasmania Protected areas of Tasmania Localities of Kingborough Council Towns in Tasmania Localities of Huon Valley Council