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Located on Tasmania's west coast, Queenstown is nestled in amongst a number of hills and mountain ranges including Mt Owen (1146 m ASL) and Little Owen (510 m ASL), and is surrounded by Mount Dundas Regional Reserve.
Europeans started exploring the region in 1862, and eventually gold and copper mining became a source of income in the area in the late 1800s. In addition to the mining and related industries, timber felling was prevalent in the early 1900s, then in the 1980s a number of hydroelectricity projects including the construction of nearby Lake Burbury took off.
The area is popular with tourists keen to check out the mountainous scenery or even the gravel football field which is regularly used by local sporting clubs. Queenstown is the terminus of the West Coast Wilderness Railway, which travels south alongside the Queen River, and then along the northern slopes of the King River to the port of Strahan in Macquarie Harbour.
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Lyell Highway: Lyell Hwy (A10) as it winds its way into Queenstown, 2008. Image © Jamie Scuglia |
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Queenstown: View over Queenstown, 2008. Image © Jamie Scuglia |
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Queenstown: View over Queenstown, 2008. Image © Jamie Scuglia |
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Queenstown: View over Queenstown, 2008. Image © Jamie Scuglia |
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Queenstown Town Centre: View of Queenstown town centre and soldiers memorial, 2008. Image © Jamie Scuglia |
1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016 Census QuickStats
Last updated: 01 Dec 2019 17:17
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