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.- Type: Locality
- Description: abandoned port and town in Tasmania, Australia
- Also known as: “Pillinger, Tasmania”
Pillinger
- Categories: former port and former town
- Location: West Coast Council, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-42.35135° or 42° 21′ 5″ southLongitude
145.54421° or 145° 32′ 39″ eastElevation
119 metres (390 feet)Open location code
4R97JGXV+FMOpenStreetMap ID
node 13941756343OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Irish—“Pillinger” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “皮林格城镇”
- Dutch: “Pillinger”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيلينجر”
- Irish: “Pillinger”
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