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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.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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New Town
Tasmania, Australia · Oceania
About New Town
New Town is worth a stop: 56km from Devils Kitchen.
New Town is in Tasmania, Australia, with about 6,000 people. You drive on the left here.
New Town is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, about 4 kilometres (2 mi) north of the central business district of Hobart. It is generally considered Hobart's oldest suburb, settled just a week after Sullivans Cove. It was historically the home of many of Hobart's wealthiest citizens, and New TownRead more
features a large number of grand residences, churches, and public buildings. The large farms were broken up following the world wars and it is now an inner city residential suburb. Many of its streets are lined with Federation style cottages. It is surrounded by the suburbs of North Hobart, Mount Stuart, Lenah Valley and Moonah, with the Queens Domain just to the south-east. Most of the locality is within the Hobart local government area, with 2.5% within Glenorchy.
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What is there to see near New Town?
Within an hour or so of New Town: Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) (6 km), kunanyi / Mount Wellington (7 km), Tessellated Pavement (54 km), Port Arthur Historic Site (55 km).
Where is New Town?
New Town is in Tasmania, Australia.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 6,004
- Continent
- Oceania
- Country
- Australia
- Region
- Tasmania
- Timezone
- Australia/Hobart
- Coordinates
- -42.8576, 147.3087
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Worth the detour from New Town
5 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.
7 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.
54 km · about 60 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.
55 km · about 65 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.
56 km · about 65 min drive
Driving roads near New Town
- 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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