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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 .

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Time in Pillinger is now 12:47 PM (Friday) . 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

0:57 min by DiscoverTasmania
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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

2:43 min by Tassyexplorer
Views: 4921 Rating: 5.00

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

9:20 min by Tim Sumpton
Views: 702 Rating: 5.00

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

2:39 min by bischoffhotel
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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.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at -42.35 145.57 (Lat./Long.); Less than 0 km away
Tags: Ghost towns in Tasmania, Macquarie Harbour, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, Western Tasmania

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.

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Located at -42.33 145.57 (Lat./Long.); Less than 2 km away
Tags: Bays of Tasmania, Macquarie Harbour, Western Tasmania

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.

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Located at -42.30 145.66 (Lat./Long.); Less than 9 km away
Tags: Impact craters of Australia, Pleistocene impact craters, Western Tasmania

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.

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Located at -42.27 145.53 (Lat./Long.); Less than 10 km away
Tags: Macquarie Harbour, Mountains of Tasmania, West Coast Range (Tasmania), Western Tasmania

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.

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Located at -42.39 145.45 (Lat./Long.); Less than 11 km away
Tags: 1822 establishments in Australia, 1833 disestablishments, Australian penal colonies, Defunct prisons in Tasmania, History of Tasmania, Huon Pine, Macquarie Harbour, Prison museums in Australia, Visitor attractions in Tasmania