Howden

Howden, a suburb of Hobart, is a small, isolated community on the shore of North West Bay in Tasmania Australia. It is situated between the developing township of Kingston and the smaller Margate, it borders bushland and is located 21 kilometres south of Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania.

Type: Village with 717 residents
Description: suburb of Hobart, Australia
Also known as: “Howden, Tasmania” and “Howden, Tasmania, Australia”
Neighbors: Margate

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Margate and Barretta.

Margate

Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.

Margate is a town of 4,239 in the Greater Hobart region in southern Tasmania, and is one of the northernmost towns along the D'Entrecasteux Channel. The town is eight kilometers southwest of Kingston and 20 km from Hobart, the state capital.

Barretta

Suburb

Barretta is a rural locality in the local government area of Kingborough in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 13 kilometres south-west of the town of Kingston. Barretta is situated 3 km southwest of Howden.

Blackmans Bay

Suburb

Blackmans Bay is a coastal suburb of Kingborough Council, Tasmania, Australia. It forms part of the Kingston-Blackmans Bay urban area and is a satellite town of Greater Hobart. Blackmans Bay is situated 3 km northeast of Howden.

Howden

Categories: suburb, suburb/locality of Tasmania, and locality
Location: Kingborough Council, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-43.0258° or 43° 1′ 33″ south

Longitude

147.29239° or 147° 17′ 33″ east

Population

717

Elevation

29 metres (95 feet)

Open location code

4R89X7FR+MX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3534520275

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

8219776

Wikidata ID

Q5921421

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Irish—“Howden” goes by many names.

Basque: “Howden (Tasmania)”
Basque: “Howden”
French: “Howden”
Irish: “Howden”
“Howden”

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