- Derwent Bridge, Tasmania
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Derwent Bridge
Tasmania
Derwent BridgePostcode: 7140 LGA: Central Highlands Council State District: Lyons Federal Division: Lyons Derwent Bridge is a locality on the Lyell Highway at the southern edge of the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park.
It is just south of Lake St Clair and the Lake St Clair visitor centre; and it is north of Lake King William and the Butlers Gorge Power Station.
It is also the last inhabited location before Linda Valley in the West Coast Range - this section of the highway passes through the Wild Rivers National Park. In the past there were a couple of isolated houses along Lyell Highway that have been removed.
Today, Derwent Bridge features not only the bridge alluded to in its name – spanning the Derwent River – but accommodation units, and also a roadside public house.
Derwent Bridge was used as the principal location for the filming of the 2009 AFI nominated television drama The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce.
External links
Categories:- Towns in Tasmania
- Central Highlands (Tasmania)
- Tasmania geography stubs
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