Strathgordon is a municipality in the southwest of the Australian state of Tasmania . It is located between the two large reservoirs of the Tasmanian southwest, Lake Gordon in the north and Lake Pedder in the south, on the Gordon River Road (B61). The next petrol station from there is 57 km further east in Maydena . This means that the small town is also considered remote by Tasmanian standards.
Strathgordon was founded in 1969 and served as a settlement for workers and employees during the construction of dams on the Gordon River and Serpentine River by Hydro Tasmania in the 1970s. At that time it consisted of around 270 houses with up to 2000 inhabitants, a shopping center and a school for 230 pupils, a church, a library as well as a police station and a fire station.
After the dams were completed, the number of inhabitants dropped drastically. Nowadays Strathgordon has only one motel and a dozen houses and around 2000 had a seasonal fluctuation between 20 and 30 inhabitants, a newspaper report from 2006 speaks of around 70 inhabitants, official figures do not exist. Most of the permanent residents are employed by Hydro Tasmania, and Strathgordon is now the base for visitors to Southwest National Park .
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Strathgordon
Sarah Rackham (Editor: Joan Woodberry): Hydro construction villages. Volume three. Poatina, Gowrie Park, Strathgordon . Public Relations Department, Hydro-Electric Commission. Hobart TAS (1983). ISBN 0724610375
^ Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment and the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service: Environmental Management Goals For Tasmanian Surface Waters - Gordon River System , 2000, PDF online
