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The West Coast region covers 9574.5sq kms and the West Coast municipality is the gateway to Tasmania's wilderness. Coastal populations include Strahan, situated on Macquarie Harbour, and the picturesque shack sites of Granville Harbour and Trial Harbour. The inland towns of Queenstown, Zeehan, Tullah, and Rosebery are all within a short distance from magnificent lakes, rivers, rainforests, dunes and historic sites. The West Coast has a population of approximately 5500 people. It is celebrated for its tourism, mining, and fishing whilst the clean air, mild climate and strong commitment to community make the West Coast a fantastic and unique place to be.
Tasmania ’s west coast is still wild and rugged. As you travel west along the Lyell Highway through the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park or south from Devonport you know you are entering an ancient landscape. Dense forests line the highway, dark rivers tumble through steep gorges, and deep and wide lakes open up before you.
Tiny towns, such as Rosebery and Tullah that once housed hundreds of miners are now quiet and peaceful. Look out for Montezuma Falls, near Rosebery, our tallest waterfall. If you are travelling from Hobart, you enter the bleak landscape of Queenstown, following the road as it spirals for more than 90 bends down into the remains of the world’s richest gold and copper mine. It would have been a difficult life in those days, and when you meet the people of Queenstown, you hear their deep pride in their town and its history. From Devonport the road takes you through Zeehan, which was once a wealthy silver town. Make sure you stop into the West Coast Pioneers Memorial Museum to learn of the town’s once rollicking mining past.
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| Penghana Guest House |
 32 The Esplanade, Queenstown
National Trust property overlooking Queenstown. Relax in heritage comfort in former mine managers residence with mining memorabilia. Ensuite rooms, ball room and chef prepared meals at our 16 chair formal dinning table.
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| Tullah Lakeside Chalets |
Farrell Street, Tullah
10 Deluxe Rooms
25 Chalet Motel Rooms.
Located between Cradle Mountain and Strahan, Tullah Lakeside Chalet is perfectly located for exploring the highlights of Tasmania's west coast. It also boasts a fantastic setting on the shores of Lake Rosebery, surrounded by spectacular mountains.
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| Mount Lyell Motor Inn |
 1 Orr Street, Queenstown
Mount Lyell Motor Inn rooms are well furnished with private bathrooms, in room refrigerator and television.
The Mt Lyell Motor Inn boasts the towns most popular restaurant with quality affordable meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week.
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| Chancellor Inn Queenstown |
 Batchelor Street, Queenstown
The Chancellor Inn Queenstown, on Tasmania’s west coast is the perfect base from which to explore the awe inspiring west coast region, offering adventure, history and unsurpassed scenery.
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The town was established in the 1890s when copper was discovered in the surrounding mountains. The mountains, stripped by mining of all their vegetation, became a tourist attraction, but technology has progressed and the vegetation is now slowly returning.
The town has an interesting collection of timber architecture left from early mining days and has been the main focus of the national project to restore the old and rare Abt railway, now called the West Coast Wilderness Railway and open for scenic rides. A hundred years of mining and community development in the area is covered in an excellent museum. The road into and out of the town passes through stark mountain scenery and drivers need to keep their wits about themselves. |
 
Montezuma Falls are one of Tasmania's Highest Waterfalls. The walk is 7 Kilometres and 3+ hours return. The walk to Montezuma Falls is one of the easiest and most rewarding walks on the West Coast, and is a gently graded track starting from the former township of Williamsford.
The existing track was orginally constructed in 1889, for the North East Dundas Tramway, which ran from Zeehan to Williamsford on a two foot gauge track. The track travelled from Zeehan, a distance of 29 km between the mountains and valleys surrounding the picturesque Montezuma Falls to service the mines of the Ring Valley and Hercules on Mount Hamilton near Williamsford. The railway cost the government of the day well over £170,000 and took more than eighteen months to complete. Recently the track has been the subject of much work by the National Parks and Wildlife and four wheel drive enthusiasts, who have also constructed a viewing platform at the foot of the falls.
The railway closed in 1925 and much of the evidence of its existence has long since disappeared but enough remains of the old formation to excite the passion of any history buff. Several examples of early timber bridge building techniques are still well preserved and one must be amazed by the fine job of surveying which took place to mark out the original route along the hillside which at times is close to vertical with the Ring River rushing along many metres below. The rainforest that the old track winds through has everything that a botanist would normally dream about with the canopy slowly building up above the track and fallen trees. |
 
Tasmania 's rugged West Coast region is one of the world’s richest mineral provinces, known for the diversity of gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, zinc, tungsten, iron ore and osmiridium and quantity of its ore deposits.
The discovery of tin deposits at Mount Bischoff in 1871 started an influx of prospectors to the wilderness trying their luck by panning in its creeks and rivers and prospecting its mountains. By the turn of the century scores of mines and dozens of rip-roaring towns, of varying durability, were established.
The West Coast Pioneers Memorial Museum commemorates this development. Exhibits include old photographs, a bottle collection, a complete range of ore and mineral samples, and working models. There are photographs, four locomotives and rolling stock of the once complex network of rail and tramway systems, of which only the Emu Bay Railway remains. Allow a time to see all the exhibits of the industry and hard men of the west coasts boom time. |
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