Trial Harbour

Trial Harbour

Trial Harbour, Tasmania
*Location: 41 °55' S 145° 10' E

A small anchorage on the West Coast, Tasmania, located in the northern part of Ocean Beach, Tasmania. It was an exposed and particularly vulnerable anchorage which was susceptible to the prevailing local weather of the Roaring Forties.

It was named after the cutter "Trial" whih first anchored there in 1881.

The "harbour" was utilised for a short while during the establishment of the early mining communities of Zeehan, and Queenstown, prior to the establishment of the settlements and facilities at Strahan and Regatta Point.

Description and details are found in Geoffrey Blainey's The Peaks of Lyell of the early years. It had a hotel and currently it is the location of beach shacks.

Further north along the coast - a similarly dangerous and exposed location was Granville Harbour.

References

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*: 2003 edition - Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown. :1949 edition - Hobart: Davies Brothers. OCLC|48825404; ASIN [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FMPZ80 B000FMPZ80] :1924 edition - Queenstown: Mount Lyell Tourist Association. OCLC|35070001; ASIN [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0008BM4XC B0008BM4XC]


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