Pillinger
Pillinger is an abandoned port and townsite in Kelly Basin, on the south eastern side of Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania. It was constructed for James Crotty's North Mount Lyell mining company to ship ore from the North Mount Lyell mine, utilising the North Mount Lyell Railway that took the ore to the smelters at Crotty and on to Pillinger.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 120 metres (390 feet)
- …is also known as “Pillinger, Tasmania”
- Description: abandoned port and town in Tasmania, Australia
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Latitude
-42.35135° or 42° 21′ 5″ south
Longitude
145.54421° or 145° 32′ 39″ east
Open location code
4R97JGXV+FM
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Irish—“Pillinger” goes by many names.
皮林格城镇Chinese
PillingerDutch
بيلينجرEgyptian Arabic
PillingerIrish
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