Tamar
The Tamar River, officially kanamaluka / River Tamar, is a 70-kilometre estuary located in northern Tasmania, Australia. Despite being named a river, the waterway is a brackish and tidal estuary over its entire length.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: estuary in Tasmania, Australia
- Also known as: “Kanamaluka”, “Kanamaluka / River Tamar”, “Penrabbel”, “River Tamar”, and “Tamar River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Low Head Lighthouse.
Low Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: DiverDave, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Low Head Lighthouse is in Low Head, Tasmania, about 7 kilometres north of George Town on the east side of the mouth of the Tamar River. It was the third lighthouse to be constructed in Australia, and it is also Australia's oldest continuously used pilot station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Low Head and George Town.
Low Head
Village
Low Head is a rural residential locality in the local government area of George Town in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 5 kilometres north of the town of George Town.
George Town
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
George Town and Low Head are historic townships in Tasmania. George Town was chosen as the Northern Headquarters for Tasmania, but later abandoned in favour of Launceston.
Tamar
- Categories: estuary and body of water
- Location: Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Tamar from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Tamar” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Tamar”
- Cebuano: “Tamar River”
- Chinese: “泰馬河”
- Chinese: “泰马河”
- Chuvash: “Теймар”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تامار”
- French: “Tamar”
- Georgian: “ტამარი”
- German: “River Tamar”
- German: “Tamar River”
- Ido: “Tamar”
- Irish: “Abhainn Tamar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tamar River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tamar”
- Norwegian: “Tamar”
- Polish: “Tamar”
- Russian: “Теймар”
- Swedish: “Tamar River”
- Ukrainian: “Тамар”
- Welsh: “Afon Tamar”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Greens Beach and Kelso.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Barrel Rock and Barrel Spit.
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