Moina
Moina is a town 45 km inland from Devonport on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. Moina was the site of a brief gold rush in the late nineteenth century and then one of the largest wolfram and bismuth mines in Tasmania.- Type: Hamlet with 31 residents
- Description: locality in Tasmania, Australia
- Also known as: “Moina, Tasmania” and “Moina, Tasmania, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wilmot Dam and Cethana Dam.
Wilmot Dam
Power station
The Wilmot Dam is a concrete-faced rock-fill embankment dam across the Wilmot River, located near Wilmot, in northern Tasmania, Australia. Completed in 1970, the resultant reservoir, Lake Gairdner, was established for the purpose of generation of hydroelectricity via the adjacent Wilmot Power Station, a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station. Wilmot Dam is situated 2½ km southeast of Moina.
Cethana Dam
Power station
Photo: Stephen Edmonds, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cethana Dam is a concrete-faced rockfill embankment dam across the Forth River, located near Sheffield in northern Tasmania, Australia. Completed in 1971, the resultant reservoir, Lake Cethana, was established for the purpose of generating hydro-electric power via the Cethana Power Station, a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station. Cethana Dam is situated 3½ km east of Moina.
Moina
- Categories: locality and suburb/locality of Tasmania
- Location: Kentish Council, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.47428° or 41° 28′ 27″ southLongitude
146.09617° or 146° 5′ 46″ eastPopulation
31Elevation
527 metres (1,729 feet)Open location code
4RC8G3GW+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 322176850OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2157315Wikidata ID
Q6894611
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Irish—“Moina” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Moina”
- Irish: “Moina”
- “Moina”
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