Dover (Tasmania)

Dover
State :  Australia State : Tasmania
Coordinates : 43 ° 19 ′  S , 147 ° 1 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 19 ′  S , 147 ° 1 ′  E Height : 17  m Area : 4.0  km²
Residents : 486 (2016) Population density : 122 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 7117 LGA : Huon Valley Municipality
Dover

Dover is a small town in the southeast of the Australian state of Tasmania . It is located on Esperance Bay south of Geeveston and is the most southwestern city of the Local Government Area Huon Valley Municipality . The Huon Highway (A6) connects Dover with Hobart .

The number of residents was found to be 486 in the 2016 census. 79% of these were born in Australia, 5% in England , 3% in New Zealand , 2% in the People's Republic of China and 1% each in Scotland or Romania .

history

In 1892, the explorer Bruni D'Entrecasteaux reached southern Tasmania after his ships had drifted off course due to unfavorable winds. D'Entrecasteaux and his crew spent a few weeks in Recherche Bay repairing their ships. During this time they mapped Port Esperence, now Dover, and named it after one of the expedition ships.

After Tasmania was settled, a prison camp was set up in Dover. Today the only visible evidence from that time is the Commandant's Office .

From the 1850s Dover grew as a logging town, from here the Huon Pine was shipped all over the world. Today the place lives mainly from the fish industry and fruit growing.

climate

DOVER - Height: 17 m
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     53   21st 10     52   21st 10     65   19th 9     67   17th 7th     71   15th 6th     79   13 4th     86   12 4th     89   13 4th     83   15th 5     87   16 7th     72   18th 8th     72   19th 9 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source:

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for DOVER - Altitude: 17 m Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 20.5 20.5 19.0 16.7 14.8 12.6 12.3 13.1 14.6 16.1 17.5 19.0 O 16.4 Min. Temperature (° C) 10.1 10.2 8.9 7.0 5.9 3.8 3.6 4.0 4.9 6.5 7.8 8.9 O 6.8 Precipitation ( mm ) 53.2 51.5 64.6 67.1 70.8 79.3 85.9 89.1 83.3 86.8 71.5 72.2 Σ 875.3 Source:

Personalities

• David Rivett ( Albert Cherbury David Rivett ; 1885–1961), chemist and science manager

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Dover (L) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
2. ↑ Australian Heritage ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 5, 2012 
3. ^ Climate statistics for Dover . Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved January 5, 2009.