Bronte Park, Tasmania

Bronte Park, Tasmania

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Bronte Park
state = tas


caption =
lga = Central Highlands Council
postcode = 7140
est = 1947
pop = 16
elevation=
maxtemp = 13.8
mintemp = 3.6
rainfall = 1168.2
stategov = Lyons
fedgov = Lyons

Bronte Park is a locality on the Marlborough Highway at the southern edge of the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania. It is approximately halfway in between Hobart and Queenstown, and is also almost exactly in the geographic dead centre of the island. Bronte Park is located close by to Bronte Lagoon, and artificial lake in the Central Highlands.

It is now primarily a tourist village catering to trout fishermen, kayakers and walkers, but was established in the 1940s as accommodation for workers on the Tasmanian Hydro Electric Commission's 'Tungatinah Scheme', 'Nive River Scheme' and other associated works in the vicinity. By the 1950s it was a bustling village over over 700 workers, with a a store, police station, post office, school, cinema, hospital, dairy and a church, but now many of the original houses and buildings have been removed, with only a few remaining now as part of the Bronte Lagoon Chalet. By 1991 the Hydro Electric Commission (now Hydro Tasmania) sold the chalets into private ownership.

External links

* [http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/wha/wherein/detail.html Map of World Heritage Area]
* [http://www.hydro.com.au/handson/hcv/brontepk.htm Hydro Tasmania history of Bronte Park]


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