Gormanston
Gormanston is a town in Tasmania on the slopes of Mount Owen, above the town of Queenstown in Tasmania's West Coast. In the 2021 census, Gormanston had a population of 32.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 14 residents
- Description: town in Tasmania, Australia
- Also known as: “Gormanston, Tasmania”, “Gormanston, Tasmania, Australia”, and “Gormie”
- Neighbors: Queenstown
Places of Interest
Highlights include Horsetail Falls and Mount Lyell.
Horsetail Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Titandrake, CC0.
Horsetail Falls is a seasonal waterfall near Queenstown, Tasmania. The falls cascades over 50 metres down a steep cliff face, and can be seen from the road. A boardwalk giving closer access was opened in 2017.
Mount Lyell
Peak
Mount Lyell is a mountain in the West Coast Range of Western Tasmania, Australia. Mount Lyell has an elevation of 917 metres above sea level. The adjacent mountains are Mount Sedgwick to the north and Mount Owen to the south. Mount Lyell is situated 3 km northeast of Gormanston.
Mount Owen
Peak
Photo: MorrisWinston, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Owen is a mountain directly east of the town of Queenstown on the West Coast Range in Western Tasmania, Australia. With an elevation of 1,146 metres above sea level, like most of the mountains in the West Coast Range, it was named by the geologist Charles Gould after Richard Owen. Mount Owen is situated 3 km south of Gormanston.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Queenstown.
Queenstown
Photo: Wiki ian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Queenstown is an old mining town in Western Tasmania, that has been recognised by the National Trust as a historic town. It is about a 4 hour drive from Hobart on the Lyell Highway.
Gormanston
- Categories: town, suburb/locality of Tasmania, and locality
- Location: West Coast Council, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-42.0734° or 42° 4′ 24″ southLongitude
145.59685° or 145° 35′ 49″ eastPopulation
14Elevation
385 metres (1,263 feet)Open location code
4R97WHGW+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 2376796209OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2164856Wikidata ID
Q14935613
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Gormanston” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Gormanston”
- Cebuano: “Gormanston”
- Dutch: “Gormanston”
- French: “Gormanston”
- Hebrew: “גורמנסטון”
- Irish: “Gormanston”
- Swedish: “Gormanston”
- “Gormanston”
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