Tinderbox is a rural residential locality in the local government area 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 ...
in the
Hobart region of
Tasmania
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. It is located about south of the town of
Kingston. The
2016 census has a population of 394 for the state suburb of Tinderbox.
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History
Tinderbox was gazetted as a locality in 1961. The locality is said to be named after a sterling silver tinderbox
A tinderbox, or patch box, is a container made of wood or metal containing flint, firesteel, and tinder (typically charcloth, but possibly a small quantity of dry, finely divided fibrous matter such as hemp), used together to help kindle a fire ...
found on the beach in the 1830s.
Geography
North-West Bay forms the western boundary, D'Entrecasteaux Channel
The D'Entrecasteaux Channel is a body of water located between Bruny Island and the south-east of the mainland of Tasmania, Australia. The channel is the mouth for the estuaries of the Derwent and the Huon Rivers and empties into the Tasman S ...
the southern, and the Derwent River the eastern.
Road infrastructure
The C624 route (Tinderbox Road) enters from the north and runs south-west, south, east and north, thus completing almost a complete loop of the locality before exiting in the north-east.
References
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Localities of Kingborough Council
Towns in Tasmania