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Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
Australia's most controversial and provocative private museum, built underground in a Tasmanian winery.
3 km · about 5 min drive
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Goodwood
Tasmania, Australia · Oceania
About Goodwood
Goodwood is worth a stop: 5 minutes from New Town, 59km from Devils Kitchen.
Goodwood is in Tasmania, Australia, with about 1,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is New Town, about 4 km away.
Goodwood is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Glenorchy in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the town of Glenorchy. The 2016 census recorded a population of 1049 for the state suburb of Goodwood.
It is a suburb of Hobart.
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residential suburb starts just south-east of the Brooker Highway and Goodwood Road junction. It is best known for its annual Christmas light decorations. Most houses in Goodwood were built in the 1950s as public housing. The suburb is also home to light industry and docks. An Anglican church and two primary schools are also located in the suburb.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Goodwood?
Within an hour or so of Goodwood: Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) (3 km), kunanyi / Mount Wellington (9 km), Tessellated Pavement (56 km), Port Arthur Historic Site (58 km).
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The nearest famous roads are Jacobs Ladder (Ben Lomond).
Where is Goodwood?
Goodwood is in Tasmania, Australia, about 4 km from New Town.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 1,042
- Continent
- Oceania
- Country
- Australia
- Region
- Tasmania
- Timezone
- Australia/Hobart
- Coordinates
- -42.8282, 147.2930
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112 works from mobiles. Distances between fuel stops in the outback can exceed 200 km: plan ahead. Wildlife is most active at dawn/dusk.
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Worth the detour from Goodwood
6 notable places within an hour's drive.
scenic viewpoint
kunanyi / Mount Wellington
1,271 m summit above Hobart reached by a sealed 21 km road to an enclosed observation shelter overlooking the Derwent estuary.
9 km · about 15 min drive
photogenic
Tessellated Pavement
A flat shore platform at Eaglehawk Neck fractured by tectonic stress into an almost perfectly rectangular grid, then eroded into pans and loaves. Best at low tide near sunrise.
56 km · about 65 min drive
museum
Port Arthur Historic Site
Preserved 19th-century convict penal settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, a World Heritage site at the end of the Arthur Highway.
58 km · about 65 min drive
landmark
Callington Mill
A restored 1837 Lincolnshire-style tower windmill at Oatlands, one of very few working Georgian windmills in the southern hemisphere, still milling flour with its sails turning.
59 km · about 70 min drive
natural wonder
Devils Kitchen
A collapsed sea cave near Eaglehawk Neck where the ocean boils 60 metres below in a narrow dolerite chasm, with Tasman Arch a short walk away. Both are metres from the car park.
59 km · about 70 min drive
Driving roads near Goodwood
- Right herekunanyi / Mount Wellington1,271 m summit above Hobart reached by a sealed 21 km road to an enclosed observation shelter overlooking the Derwent estuary.
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