Huon Valley Municipality

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Huon Valley
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Location of the Huon Valley in Tasmania
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State : Australia Australia
State : Flag of Tasmania.svg Tasmania
Administrative headquarters: Huonville
Dates and numbers
Area : 5,497  km²
Residents : 16,199 (2016)
Population density : 2.9 inhabitants per km²

Coordinates: 43 ° 2 ′  S , 147 ° 2 ′  E The Huon Valley Municipality is a local government area (LGA) in the Australian state of Tasmania . The area is 5497 km² and has about 16,000 inhabitants (2016).

Huon Valley is located on the southern tip of the island about 40 kilometers southwest of the capital Hobart . The area consists of 47 hamlets and villages: Bacon Bay, Barretts Bay, Brooks Bay, Cairns Bay, Castle Forbes Bay, Crabtree, Cradoc, Deep Bay, Dover , Eggs, Franklin, Garden Island Creek, Garden Island Sands, Gardners Bay, Geeveston , Glaziers Bay, Glen Huon , Glendevie, Golden Valley, Grove, Hastings, Huonville , Ida Bay, Judbury, Lonnavale, Lower Longley, Lucaston, Lune River, Lymington, Mountain River, Nicholls Rivulet, Pelverata, Petcheys Bay, Police Point, Port Huon , Raminea, Randalls Bay, Ranelagh, Recherche, Southport, Strathblane, Surges Bay, Surveyors Bay , Verona Sands, Wattle Grove, Lower Wattle Grove, Woodstock and Upper Woodstock. Macquarie Island , 1,300 km south of Tasmania, is also part of the Huon Valley Municipality. The seat of the council is in Huonville in the northeast of the LGA, where about 1850 inhabitants live (2016).

administration

The Huon Valley Council has nine members. The mayor (mayor), his deputy (deputy) and seven councilors are directly elected by the residents of the LGA. Huon Valley is not divided into districts.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Huon Valley (M) (Local Government Area) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ Localities by Council ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2009 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. (PDF; 101 kB), Local Government Association of Tasmania  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lgat.tas.gov.au
  3. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Huonville (Urban Center / Locality) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2020.