Description
Fingal is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Break O'Day in the North-east LGA region of Tasmania.
Fingalis 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 56 kilometres (35 mi) south-west of the town of St Helens. The 2016 census provides a population of 405 for the state suburb of Fingal.IT is a small town in Fingal Valley in the north-east of Tasmania.
History
Fingal was gazetted as a locality in 1965.The Fingal area was surveyed in 1824 by Roderic O'Connor and John Helder Wedge, and is believed to have been named after Fingal's Cave in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland rather than Fingal in Ireland. The town of Fingal came into existence in 1827 as a convict station, and experienced a boom when Van Diemen's Land's first payable gold was discovered in nearby Mangana.Fingal Post Office opened on 1 June 1832.
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Population: 101-1000
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 429.847 km2
Elevation: 201-500 metres
Town elevation: 238 m
Population number: 405
Local Government Area: Break O'Day Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Fingal, Tasmania