Touring Pillinger in Australia
Pillinger in the region of Tasmania is located in Australia - some 524 mi or ( 844 km ) South of Canberra , the country's capital city .
Time in Pillinger is now 09:17 PM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " Australia/Hobart " with a UTC offset of 11 hours. Depending on your budget, these more prominent places might be interesting for you: and Hobart. Being here already, consider visiting Hobart . We collected some hobby film on the internet . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Check out our recommendations for Pillinger ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.
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Tasmanian Adventure Escapes
Discover a place on the edge of the world, where the adventures are exhilarating and they're yours to experience. ..
Mt Darwin Tasmania is a tough track
This is as remote in Tasmania you could drive and its steep with water washed out rocky rutts close to the World Heritage protected areas of Tasmania ..
West Cost 2010 - Darwin Plateau
May 8 2010 - West Coast Tassie trip. Driving the Darwin plateau rock steps. Jimmy, Timbo, Chris, Nic & Brenno. Jimmy's Patrol was the only one to drive all the way. It had been raining all night and m ..
Bischoff Hotel & Waratah Tasmania
Ranger Tim of Totally Wild meeting Lew Rout of the famous Bischoff Hotel at Waratah, Tasmania and talking about the waterfall and town history. ..
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Interesting facts about this location
Pillinger, Tasmania
Pillinger is an abandoned port and townsite in Kelly Basin, on the south eastern side of Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania. It was constructed for James Crotty's North Mount Lyell mining company to ship ore from the North Mount Lyell mine, utilising the North Mount Lyell Railway that took the ore to the smelters at Crotty and on to Pillinger. East Pillinger was a company town, and West Pillinger was the neighbouring government town.
Located at -42.35 145.57 (Lat./Long.); Less than 0 km away
Kelly Basin
Kelly Basin is a bay on the south eastern side of Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia. It was named after James Kelly an early explorer of the Tasmanian coastline. It was the location of the terminus of the North Mount Lyell Railway, and the ghost town of Pillinger. In the late 1890s when John Watt Beattie was showing his photographs of the west coast country to Hobart and Launceston audiences, it was designated as Kelly's Basin.
Located at -42.33 145.57 (Lat./Long.); Less than 2 km away
Darwin Crater
Darwin Crater is a suspected meteorite impact crater in Western Tasmania, Australia. It is expressed as a rimless circular flat-floored depression, 1.2 kilometres in diameter, within mountainous and heavily forested terrain 26 kilometres south of Queenstown. It lies east of the West Coast Range and just within the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. The crater was discovered by the geologist R. J.
Located at -42.30 145.66 (Lat./Long.); Less than 9 km away
Mount Sorell
Mount Sorell is the most south westerly of the West Coast Range on the West Coast of Tasmania. It was named after William Sorell (1775 - 4 June 1848) who was a soldier and third Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land.
Located at -42.27 145.53 (Lat./Long.); Less than 10 km away
Macquarie Harbour Penal Station
The Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, a former British colonial penal settlement, established on Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour in the former colony of Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, Australia, operated between 1822 and 1833. The settlement housed mainly male convicts, with a small number of women. During its 11 years of operation, the penal colony achieved a reputation as one of the harshest penal settlements in the Australian colonies.
Located at -42.39 145.45 (Lat./Long.); Less than 11 km away
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