Places to visit in Tasmania, Australia
11 places to visit in Tasmania, Australia, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Cascades Female Factory, Port Arthur Historic Site, Bay of Fires and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Tasmania volume.
2 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 5 Famous places to visit · 4 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Tasmania (2)
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Cascades Female Factory
A former workhouse for female convicts in South Hobart, in use from 1828 to 1856, in the penal colony then called Van Diemen's Land. Its stone walls and yards are now one of the 11 sites that make up the World Heritage listed Australian Convict Sites.
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Port Arthur Historic Site
A former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, about 97 kilometres south-east of Hobart, now part of the World Heritage listed Australian Convict Sites. The roofless sandstone penitentiary and dozens of other buildings stand among lawns by the water.
Famous places to visit in Tasmania (5)
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Bay of Fires
A stretch of coast in north-east Tasmania from Binalong Bay to Eddystone Point, with white beaches, clear water and granite boulders splashed with orange lichen. Tobias Furneaux named it in 1773 after seeing the fires of Aboriginal people along the shore.
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Bruny Island
A 362 square kilometre island south of Hobart, separated from mainland Tasmania by the D'Entrecasteaux Channel and reached by car ferry from Kettering. The Neck, a thin isthmus, joins its two halves, and the island is known for cheese, oysters and sea cliffs.
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Cradle Mountain
A jagged dolerite peak in the Central Highlands of Tasmania, inside the national park it shares with Lake St Clair. Its outline rises above Dove Lake, which a walking track circles, and the Overland Track begins nearby.
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Mount Wellington
The mountain that rises behind Hobart, summit of the Wellington Range, known as kunanyi in palawa kani. A road climbs to the top, where boardwalks look out over the city, the Derwent estuary and much of southern Tasmania.
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Museum of Old and New Art
The largest privately funded museum in the Southern Hemisphere, set at the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula north of central Hobart. It shows ancient, modern and contemporary art from David Walsh's collection around themes of sex and death; he calls it a subversive adult Disneyland.
Hidden gems in Tasmania (4)
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Cataract Gorge
A river gorge on the South Esk about 1.5 kilometres from the centre of Launceston, with walking tracks along its cliffs. A chairlift crosses the First Basin, where people swim in summer, and a suspension bridge spans the river near its mouth.
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Freycinet National Park
Tasmania's oldest park along with Mount Field, founded in 1916 on the Freycinet Peninsula about 125 kilometres north-east of Hobart. Its red and pink granite peaks, the Hazards, look down on Wineglass Bay, a curve of white sand that walkers climb to a lookout to see.
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Maria Island
A mountainous island off Tasmania's east coast, about 20 kilometres long and entirely a national park, reached by ferry from Triabunna. There are no cars, wombats graze around the old settlement of Darlington, and the Painted Cliffs show swirls of coloured sandstone.
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Salamanca Place
A row of sandstone warehouses from the 19th century on Hobart's waterfront, now galleries, cafés and restaurants. Every Saturday the Salamanca Market fills the street with stalls of Tasmanian food, crafts and produce.
Collecting in Tasmania
What are the best places to visit in Tasmania?
LOQAH lists 11 places in Tasmania. The best known include Cascades Female Factory, Port Arthur Historic Site, Bay of Fires, Bruny Island and Cradle Mountain. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Tasmania?
11, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Tasmania?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Tasmania before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Tasmania and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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