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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.
17 km · about 20 min drive
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Richmond
Tasmania, Australia · Oceania
About Richmond
Richmond is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Midway Point, 54km from Devils Kitchen.
Richmond is in Tasmania, Australia, with about 1,500 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Midway Point, about 10 km away.
The Richmond Gaol is a convict era building and tourist attraction in Richmond, Tasmania, and is the oldest intact gaol in Australia. Building of the gaol commenced in 1825, and predates the establishment of the penal colony at Port Arthur in 1833. One of the tasks completed by the convicts who were held at RichmondRead more
Gaol was the construction of Richmond Bridge.
Most of the gaol buildings have not been changed since convict times. They include an example of a female solitary confinement cell, measuring 2 metres (6.6 ft)s by 1 metre (3.3 ft)
The buildings include a chain gang sleeping rooms, a flogging yard, a cookhouse and holding rooms. The buildings also feature historical relics and documents.
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What is there to see near Richmond?
Within an hour or so of Richmond: Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) (17 km), kunanyi / Mount Wellington (24 km), Callington Mill (49 km), Tessellated Pavement (50 km).
Are there any good drives near Richmond?
The nearest famous roads are Jacobs Ladder (Ben Lomond).
Where is Richmond?
Richmond is in Tasmania, Australia, about 10 km from Midway Point.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 1,474
- Continent
- Oceania
- Country
- Australia
- Region
- Tasmania
- Timezone
- Australia/Hobart
- Coordinates
- -42.7355, 147.4383
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Worth the detour from Richmond
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.
24 km · about 30 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.
49 km · about 55 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.
50 km · about 60 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.
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.
57 km · about 65 min drive
Driving roads near Richmond
- 24 kmkunanyi / Mount Wellington1,271 m summit above Hobart reached by a sealed 21 km road to an enclosed observation shelter overlooking the Derwent estuary.
- 78 kmRoss BridgeAustralia's third-oldest bridge, completed in 1836 by convict stonemasons who carved 186 individual figures, Celtic gods and caricatures of officials into its sandstone arches.
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