Stanley (Tasmania)

Stanley
The place viewed from the nut
State :  Australia State : Tasmania
Coordinates : 40 ° 46 ′  S , 145 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′  S , 145 ° 18 ′  E Height : 10  m Area : 1.9  km²
Residents : 476 (2016) Population density : 251 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 7331 LGA : Circular Head Municipality
Stanley

Stanley is a place west of Wynyard on the northwest coast of Tasmania , a state of Australia, which lies on a peninsula about ten kilometers long . About 470 people live in Stanley. Stanley is about an hour's drive west of Burnie on the Bass Highway .

history

Postage stamp on the occasion of the cable laying

The place was founded in 1825 by the Dutch East India Company and named after Lord Stanley (1799-1869), the Secretary for British Colonies and later three-time Prime Minister of Great Britain .

The port of Stanley was opened in 1827 and the first school in 1841. In 1936, the first telephone and telegraph line was laid from Stanley to Australia in Apollo Bay in the state of Victoria .

geography

The Stanley Nut

The hallmark of Stanley is the nut , a free-weathered solidified magma chamber at the eastern end of the peninsula that showed the way to the discoverers of Stanley - George Bass and Matthew Flinders - in 1798. This magma chamber, also called geologically laccolith , is 143 meters high. You can climb the plateau over steep sides or take a chair lift. The character of the place is characterized by its original development, to which historical tours are offered.

The beaches are made of quartz sand. In the Stanley area there is almost untouched nature; in the south there is a temperate rainforest and the wilderness can be hiked or experienced through an off-road tour in four-wheel drive vehicles.

economy

Fishing and tourism are important for the place. The fishing and sailing boat port of Stanley is the main fishing port on the northwest coast of Tasmania. There is a golf course.

sons and daughters of the town

Joseph Lyons (1879–1939): 10th Prime Minister of Australia, sole Prime Minister from Tasmania

Web links

Commons : Stanley, Tasmania  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Stanley and Rocky Cap National Park ( April 13, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Stanley (L) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2020.