Tinderbox is a rural residential locality in the local government area of

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in the

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region of

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. It is located about south of the town of

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. The 2016 census has a population of 394 for the state suburb of Tinderbox. Tinderbox is also part of the Greater Hobart statistical area.

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 fi ...

found on the beach in the 1830s.

Geography

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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 ...

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

{{Hobart suburbs, state=collapsed Localities of Kingborough Council Towns in Tasmania Populated places on the River Derwent