Maranoa Heights is a residential neighbourhood of the suburb of
Kingston in the greater
Hobart area of
Tasmania
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Australia. It is largely within the southern part of the area contained by the B68
Channel Highway, the C628 Roslyn Avenue and
Algona Road. Maranoa Heights contains large areas of recreational woodland accessed by walking tracks and overlooks the coastal suburbs of
Kingston Beach and
Blackmans Bay. Maranoa Heights is home to the Boronia Hill Flora Track.
History
Development of the Maranoa Heights region can be traced to around 1950 when Dutch migrants settled in the region.
Maranoa Heights developed further after the 1967 bushfires laid waste to much of region bordering the
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 ...
and many of the resident apple farmers were forced to sell their land to property developers, among them the
Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
families of Pinkster, Vanderlaan and Laning.
In 1969, the opening of the
Southern Outlet linked Hobart to the rest of Southern Tasmania. Prior to this, the population of Kingston numbered around 1000 people centred on Kingston Beach but with the development of Maranoa Heights the population of Kingston now numbers around 28,000.
References
Suburbs of Hobart
Localities of Kingborough Council
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