Cethana
Cethana is a small rural community in the local government area of Kentish in the North West region of Tasmania. It is located about 52 kilometres south-west of the town of Devonport.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: locality in Tasmania, Australia
- Also known as: “Cethana, Tasmania” and “Cethana, Tasmania, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cethana Dam and Wilmot Dam.
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.
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 3 km west of Cethana.
Cethana
- Categories: locality and suburb/locality of Tasmania
- Location: Kentish Council, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.47659° or 41° 28′ 36″ southLongitude
146.1617° or 146° 9′ 42″ eastElevation
396 metres (1,299 feet)Open location code
4RC8G5F6+9MOpenStreetMap ID
node 4259673599OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
“Cethana” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Cethana”
- “Cethana”
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