Sisters Beach is a locality and small town located in the Waratah-Wynyard municipality of

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within fifteen minutes of Wynyard, in Tasmania's North West. It is located within the

Rocky Cape National Park Rocky Cape National Park is a national park on the North West Coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is located at a geographical headland and surrounds the town of Sisters Beach. It is located approximately 365 km by car northwest of State ...

and is situated on the old horse trail known as the Postman's Track that once formed the only connection between Emu Bay (now

Burnie Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. , Burnie had an urban popul ...

) and the

Van Diemen's Land Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration of Australia in the 19th century. A British settlement was established in Van Diemen's Land in 1803 before it became a sepa ...

outpost of

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. It has a beach of white sand, approximately three kilometres in length. A unique aspect of Sisters Beach is the prevalence of giant

Banksia serrata ''Banksia serrata'', commonly known as the saw banksia, the old man banksia, the saw-tooth banksia or the red honeysuckle and as wiriyagan by the Cadigal people, is a species of woody shrub or tree of the genus ''Banksia'', in the family Prote ...

. It is the only place in Tasmania where they occur. At the , Sisters Beach had a population of 511. Building new homes is currently restricted, due to the surrounding national park. It was originally established by the Irby family, descendants of whom still live in the area.

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