Towns, Cities, Mountains & Lakes in Tasmania, Australia includes some history plus Bays & Islands
- CAMBRIDGE: A village on the Cambridge Road 14 Km from Hobart. This was an important little place, as the main access road to the east, before the building of the Tasman Highway. The junction of the Colebrook Road was also important as it leads to Richmond and beyond. The first major airport for Hobart was at Cambridge and is now used for light aircraft. In the very early period Cambridge was known as Hollow Tree. Refer Map
- CAMPBELL TOWN: A large rural town on the Midlands Highway 134 Km from Hobart. Named by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1821 when he and his party camped there on their way to Hobart. The river was known as Relief Creek but Macquarie renamed it after his wife and it became the Elizabeth River. He used her maiden name for the town. He decided to make it one of the four garrison towns between Hobart and Launceston. Refer Map
- CARRICK: A little rural town on the Bass Highway 17 Km from Launceston. It is a quiet town, a centre for the surrounding farms. The area was first settled in 1823, but it was 20 years later before it became established. Originally known as Lyttleton. Refer Map
- CLAREMONT: This is an outer northern suburb of Hobart 23 Km from the city centre. Several Housing Department estates have been built at Claremont. A town on the fringe of Hobart it was not named until the railway was put through. Henry Bilton lived in "Claremont House" in the early 1830s. Claremont was named after the English home of Princess Charlotte. Refer Map
- COLES BAY: A bay on the Freycinet Peninsula it is directly east of Swansea across Great Oyster Bay, and is 38 Km south of Bicheno. The Coles Bay settlement is on a small peninsula of land that separates two beaches. The Hazards are a dominant feature rising a thousand feet and are solid red granite. Coles Bay was given its' name in honour of Silas Cole, a prominent early settler in the Swansea district. Here is the ideal spot for camping and swimming, with a great walk to the spectacular white sands of Wineglass Bay in the Freycinet National Park. This is real bush-bashing with wallabies and possums as the permanent residents in this superb setting. Map Image
- COPPING: A little village in an orchard growing district on the Arthur Highway 21 Km east of Sorell. Its' history dates back into the 1800s. It was originally named Coppington after a Captain Richard Copping who was a magistrate and early settler in the district. Refer Map
- CRADLE MOUNTAIN: This is one of Tasmanias best known mountains and is part of the Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park; a very popular tourist attraction. The mountain is 1545 metres high and there are a number of small lakes near the top which have been described as a photographers paradise. It gets the name from the cradled shaped pinnacle. Cradle Mountain has camping, abseiling and many family walks as well as the famous 85 Km Overland Track to Lake St. Clair. Mount Ossa is the highest mountain in Tasmania and is also in this National Park. Cradle Valley is the site of the accommodation area for the Cradle Mountain. Situated 45 Km south of Wilmot, near the end of the Cradle Mountain Road, it is a popular meeting place for hikers in the reserve. Map Image
- CRESSY: A small country town 13 Km south of Longford on the Cressy Road; the gateway to the Northern Central Highlands. The name is taken from the Cressy Company, a company formed in England to run the large agricultural farms in the colony. The company's first manager was knighted by King Edward 111 at Cressy, England. Some of the old buildings still standing date back to 1855 when the town was born. Refer Map
- CYGNET: A country town on the Channel Highway 66 Km south of Hobart. A quiet town favoured by retirees and artists and the centre of an orchard growing district. The town takes its name from Port Cygnet, previously Port des Cygnes - French for port of swans. This name was given by French explorer Bruny d'Entrecasteax 1792-3. Early maps of Van Diemen's Land anglicised the name to Swanport but this caused confusion with Little Swanport and Great Swanport (now Swansea). In the 1860s the town of Lovett was surveyed and named after the then Chief Draftsman, Frederick Henry Lovett. Many of the street names in the town were named after his 10 children. The town was renamed Cygnet in 1915 following a pub brawl which brought infamy on the town when the two local troopers (policemen) were assaulted and one of them was murdered trying to break up the brawl. Refer Map
- DEEP BAY: A bay on the eastern side in Port Cygnet; 9 Km from Cygnet. The Channel Highway runs along the beach area, a popular boating area. Used extensively by the ferries which were the only link with the markets of Hobart. The wharf was on Deep Bay Point, on the northern side of the bay.
- LYMINGTON: This is a rural place on the Cygnet Coast Road, 7 km. south of Cygnet, on the southern side of Copper Alley Bay. Once a convict probation station now an orchard growing district. Originally named Lyminton South.
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