Description
Ansons Bay is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Break O'Day in the North-east LGA region of Tasmania.
Ansons Bay is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Break O'Day in the North-east LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 43 kilometres (27 mi) north of the town of St Helens. The 2016 census provides a population of 31 for the state suburb of Ansons Bay.It is both a geographical feature and a small township on the extreme north-east coast of Tasmania.
The bay has notable tidal sandflats.
For much of the 20th century the timber industry was predominant but it is now mostly involved in fishing and tourism. The Ansons Bay postcode was changed from 7216 to 7264 in 2009 because the mail service is now via Gladstone rather than St Helens.
History
Ansons Bay was gazetted as a locality in 1968. Several origins of the name have been suggested, including William J Anson (the first surgeon in the Derwent settlement) and Admiral George Anson. Another suggestion is that surveyor Charles Gould named the area after an early settler.Ansons Bay Receiving House (a private post office) opened on 15 December 1913 and closed around 1917.
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Population: 1-100
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 229.351 km2
Elevation: 11-50 metres
Town elevation: 12 m
Population number: 31
Local Government Area: Break O'Day Council
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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Ansons Bay, Tasmania
