Lottah is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of
Break O'Day in the
North-east
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LGA region 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 ...
, Australia. The locality is about north-west of the town of
St Helens. The
2016 census recorded a population of 13 for the state suburb of Lottah.
[
It is a small town in Northeastern Tasmania. The closest settlement is ]Pyengana
Pyengana is a village in north-east Tasmania, Australia. It is part of the Break O'Day Council administrative region, with less than 1% in the Dorset
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and the closest major town is St Helens.
History
Lottah was gazetted as a locality in 1969.[Lottah: Once-thriving mining town a virtual ghost town in Tasmania's north east]
ABC Radio Hobart, 16 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2017. Lottah supported a small Chinese community, and one of its more notable residents was Senator Thomas Bakhap
Thomas Jerome Kingston Bakhap (29 October 1866 – 18 August 1923) was an Australian politician. He was born in Ballarat, Victoria, the adoptive son of a Chinese immigrant, Bak Hap. , who had a Chinese stepfather and worked as an interpreter. People born in Lottah during its heyday include architecture professor Brian Lewis and RAAF officer Alan Charlesworth
Air Vice Marshal (Australia), Air Vice Marshal Alan Moorehouse Charlesworth, Order of the British Empire, CBE, Air Force Cross (United Kingdom), AFC (17 September 1903 – 21 September 1978) was a senior commander in the Royal Au ...
. The Anchor Mine closed in 1950, at which point the town's population had been in decline for several decades.[
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Geography
Almost all the boundaries are survey lines.
Road infrastructure
Route A3 (Tasman Highway
The Tasman Highway (or A3) is a highway in Tasmania, Australia. Like the Midland Highway (Tasmania), Midland Highway, it connects the major cities of Hobart and Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston – however it takes a different route, via the no ...
) passes to the south. From there, several roads provide access to the locality.
References
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Further reading
* Richardson, Garry (2016), ''Lottah and the Anchor: the History of a Tin Mine and a Dependent Town'', Forty South Publishing
External links
Photograph of Lottah, 1914
Ghost towns in Tasmania
Mining towns in Tasmania
North East Tasmania
Populated places established in the 1880s
Localities of Break O'Day Council