Boat Harbour Beach is a small seaside township located about from
Wynyard on the
north-west
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coast of
Tasmania
Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...
. "
Boat Harbour" is the name of the locality which surrounds the township. In the , Boat Harbour Beach, Boat Harbour and the nearby districts had a population of 429.
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Boat Harbour Primary School is a rural government funded public school situated at 17386 Bass Highway Boat Harbour ]Tasmania
Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...
7321.
History
Boat Harbour was originally named Jacobs' Boat Harbour after Captain John Jacobs, master of small vessels owned by the Van Diemen's Land Company
The Van Diemen's Land Company (also known as Van Dieman Land Company) is a farming corporation in the Australian state of Tasmania. It was founded in 1825 and received a royal charter the same year, and was granted 250,000 acres (1,000 km2) ...
. The vessels were used for trading between the VDL establishments at Circular Head
Circular Head Council is a local government body in Tasmania covering the far north-west mainland. It is classified as a rural local government area with a population of 8,066, and its major towns and localities include Arthur River, Marrawa ...
and Woolnorth
Cape Grim, officially Kennaook / Cape Grim, is the northwestern point of Tasmania, Australia. The Peerapper name for the cape is recorded as ''Kennaook''.
It is the location of the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station and of the Cape Grim ...
with Launceston, Tasmania
Launceston () is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia, at the confluence of the North Esk River, North Esk and South Esk River, South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River, Tasmania, Tamar River (kanamaluka). As of 2021, the Launc ...
between the late 1820s and the 1840s.
Gallery
Further reading
*Flynn, Lis (1988) ''Our first one hundred: a review of the Boat Harbour district, the schools and inhabitants over the last 100 years till 1988: written and compiled for the school centenary in Australia's bicentennial year'' Boat Harbour Primary School, Boat Harbour, Tasmania.
References
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Localities of Waratah–Wynyard Council
Towns in Tasmania