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Region in Tasmania, Australia
Photo: M. Murphy, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Western Tasmania is the western part of Tasmania, encompassing both West Coast and Northwest Tasmania. For the purposes of this article, this article also includes the Central Highlands.
A family-run B&B on a farm with chickens and sheep wandering around the property. Comfortable rooms with good heating for cold nights and a solid selection of breakfast-making ingredients.
North Coast
Rex Airlines flies four times a day in and out of Wynyard (Burnie Airport), usually for around $160 per person, each way.
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former gold mining town, infamous for the 2006 mine collapse
contains a seahorse and platypus aquarium
a westerly regional centre
a gateway town to Cradle Mtn, Mole Creek, and the Highland Lakes
the easterly regional centre
Latrobe is a township of 4,200 people (2016) on the North West Coast of Tasmania.
tourist town next to Mole Creek Karst NP
small roadside town on the Lyell Hwy
home of the Big Penguin
a former mining town, known for Iron Blow Lookout
Rosebery is a mining town in West Coast Tasmania.
Smithton is a town of almost 4,000 people (2021) on the far northwest coast of Tasmania.
Stanley is located in the northwestern part of Tasmania. According to the 2016 census, Stanley had a population of 553.
the regional centre of West Coast Tasmania
former mining town between Lakes Roseberry and Mackintosh
the state's fifth-largest city approximately halfway between Devonport and Burnie
Wynyard is a rural and fishing town on the North West Coast of Tasmania. It has amazing coastline and views, especially around Table Cape and into Boat Harbour.
Zeehan is a town of 702 (2021) in the West Coast Tasmania. It was a mining town, but is now a quiet sleepy mountainous tourist town a few kilometers off the A10, one of Tasmania's most scenic highways.
stand at the Edge of the World, where the next piece of land from that point is in Argentina
Tasmania's most renowned park
Tasmania's second largest park
popular for boating and fishing
most renowned for its walls; looking exactly like Jerusalem
the only Tasmanian national park that protects a cave network
Narawntapu National Park is a Tasmanian national park in the northwest of Tasmania, minutes away from Devonport and Launceston. It's one of the few coastal national parks in Tasmania, and one of the few national parks along the Bass Strait.
Rocky Cape National Park (palawa kani: pinmatik) is a small national park in the northwest coast of Tasmania. It is believed to contain some rocks that are part of the Grand Canyon and evidently shows that Tasmania was once connected to the North American continent.
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