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| Burnie | ||
| State | Tasmania | |
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Burnie is a city on the northwest coast in the state Tasmania, an island of Australia. It was named in 1827 as Emu Bay (Emu Bay), founded and named after a flightless bird. In the early 1840s the place was named after William Burnie, a director of the Dutch East India Company.
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With around 20,000 inhabitants, the place is of great importance for the region, as it has a deep-sea port that can also be reached by container ships. Burnie is determined by the heavy industry for mechanical and plant engineering and the fifth largest container port in Australia. It is the fourth largest city in Tasmania. Burnie runs a public and private hospital, university, college, and continuing education institute.
The landscape on the northwest coast has remained relatively untouched by humans. Rainforests, meandering and raging rivers and a strongly rugged coastline dominate the landscape.
In the area around Burnie there is a successful agriculture and a well-known cheese factory has set up in the city, which offers excellent products of the region. Forestry is also of great importance.
getting there
By plane
About 20 minutes drive from the city is the 1 Burnie Airfield
(IATA: BWT) with flight options to Melbourne and Launceston.
By train
The 2 railway station is on the route between Devonport and Wynyard.
By bus
In the street
The place can also be reached via the four-lane Bass Highway, Burnie is between Devonport (45 km) and Wynyard (20 km).
By boat
The 3 port from Burnie is a frequent destination for cruise ships. There is a free shuttle bus from the port to town.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
- 1 Maker's workshop, 2 Bass Hwy, Burnie TAS 7320. Tel.: 61 3 6430 5831. Learn how Burnie lived in the 19th century. Several craft trades are presented. Among other things, there is a paper mill and a cheese factory. There is also a tourist information office here.
- 2 Little Penguin Observations Center, Parsonage Point, Parklands TAS 7320 (At Parsonage Point on the coast). Tel.: 61 437 436 803.
activities
shop
kitchen
nightlife
- 1 Hellyers Road Distillery, 153 Old Surrey Rd, Havenview TAS 7320. Tel.: 61 3 6433 0439.
Whiskey production and tasting, cafe open 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., gift shop (whiskey glasses, own chocolate).
accommodation
- 2 Burnie Beach Accommodation (Motel, caravan park), Ocean View Motel, 253 Bass Hwy, Ocean Vista TAS 7320. Tel.: 61 36431 1925.
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Practical advice
trips
- to Devonport and Railway Museum, continue after Launceston with a city tour, then a boat trip through the Cataract Gorge.
- To Devonport and the chocolate factory House of Anvers, continue after Sheffield, then to Trowunna animal park at Mole Creek, then to the Ashgrove cheese factory and back
- To Wynyard to the Table Cape, to the visitor center Wonders of Wynyard with his vintage cars and on the way back to the Hellyers Road Distillery and tasting of whiskey.
- Via Wynyard to Table Cape and the Killynaught Cottages, on to Stanley and with the cable car to Nut Mountain. Tour of the Highfield House. Drive to the Dip waterfalls
- To the Cradle Mountain Lake St. Clair National Park and on to Dove Lake
- To the Gunns Plains and visit the cave, on to Wing’s Wildlife Park.
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