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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.
5 km · about 10 min drive
Tasmania, Australia · Oceania
Geilston Bay is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Moonah, 55km from Devils Kitchen.
Geilston Bay is a town located in Tasmania, Australia. With a population of 2,935, it is an important destination in Oceania.
On a road trip, Geilston Bay sits in Australia, where you drive on the left. It's in the Australia/Hobart time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Geilston Bay to your route.
Geilston Bay is a largely residential suburb of Hobart between Risdon Vale, Shag Bay, and Lindisfarne, in the City of Clarence located on the Eastern Shore of the River Derwent, taking its name from an inlet of that river of the same name. The inlet and locality were sometimes known by the alternative name LimekilnRead more
Bay on account of lime kilns which operated there between approximately the 1830s and the 1920s, the remains of which remained visible for some decades thereafter; another early name for the Bay was "James's Bay". The present suburb name derives from an early land holding "Geils Town" in the region purchased by Andrew Geils, Commandant of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) for a brief period in 1812-1813, who subsequently left his Australian holdings behind when he moved back to Scotland.
The nationally significant Late Oligocene (or early Miocene) "Geilston Bay Local Fauna" fossil find originates from this locality. Fossil mammal remains at this site were discovered by limestone quarrying activities in the 1860s and sent to the British Museum in London for further analysis, where they still reside. However there are no surface indications of the location of the site today, which lies buried by landfill under the playing fields of the former Geilston Bay High School.
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Geilston Bay is located in Tasmania, Australia, Oceania. The coordinates are -42.8295 latitude, 147.3463 longitude.
Geilston Bay has a population of approximately 2,935 people, making it a town in Australia.
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museum
Australia's most controversial and provocative private museum, built underground in a Tasmanian winery.
5 km · about 10 min drive
scenic viewpoint
1,271 m summit above Hobart reached by a sealed 21 km road to an enclosed observation shelter overlooking the Derwent estuary.
12 km · about 20 min drive
photogenic
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.
52 km · about 60 min drive
museum
Preserved 19th-century convict penal settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, a World Heritage site at the end of the Arthur Highway.
54 km · about 65 min drive
natural wonder
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.
55 km · about 65 min drive
landmark
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
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