West Hobart

West Hobart is an inner-city suburb of , Tasmania, Australia. It is in the hills immediately west of the Hobart central business district.
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  • Type: Suburb with 5,810 residents
  • Description: suburb of Hobart, Australia
  • Also known as: “West Hobart, Tasmania” and “West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Mary’s Cathedral and Cascades Female Factory.

Church
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
St Mary's Cathedral in Hobart, , Australia, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, presently Anthony Ireland. The cathedral's origins can be traced back to 1822 when the first permanent Tasmanian priest Philip Conolly constructed a temporary wooden chapel near the present cathedral site and dedicated to God, under the invocation of St.

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The , a former Australian workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, is located in , Tasmania.

Hospital
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The is a public hospital in the Hobart CBD, , Australia. The hospital also functions as a teaching hospital in co-operation with the University of Tasmania.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Hobart and Mount Stuart.

Suburb
Photo: Tasmanian Wanderer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb of the city of , Tasmania, Australia. It lies directly north of the Hobart central business district. The main street of is Elizabeth Street, which extends northward from the Elizabeth Street Mall in the city, through , and then becomes the Main Road in and continues through many suburbs to and beyond.

Suburb
is a suburb of that lies on a ridge that extends from a foothill of , known as Knocklofty.

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is the capital city of and is Australia's second oldest city, after . sits along the Derwent River and began humbly as a penal colony.

West Hobart

Latitude
-42.88171° or 42° 52′ 54″ south
Longitude
147.31141° or 147° 18′ 41″ east
Population
5,810
Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)
United Nations Location Code
AU HBA
Open location code
4R994896+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 247941285
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
10062598
Wiki­data ID
Q7985404
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Satellite Map

Discover West Hobart from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“West Hobart” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “西霍巴特”
  • French: “Hobart-Ouest”
  • French: “West Hobart”
  • Japanese: “ウェスト・ホバート”
  • Japanese: “ウエスト・ホバート”
  • Japanese: “西ホバート”
  • Spanish: “West Hobart (Tasmania)”
  • Spanish: “West Hobart”
  • “West Hobart”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Glebe and South Hobart.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Caldew Park and Caldew, The Train Park.

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