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.
10 km · about 20 min drive
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Kingston
Tasmania, Australia · Oceania
About Kingston
Kingston is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Taroona, 53km from Devils Kitchen.
Kingston is in Tasmania, Australia, with about 10,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Taroona, about 5 km away.
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What is there to see near Kingston?
Within an hour or so of Kingston: kunanyi / Mount Wellington (10 km), Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) (19 km), Port Arthur Historic Site (48 km), Tessellated Pavement (51 km).
Where is Kingston?
Kingston is in Tasmania, Australia, about 5 km from Taroona.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 10,154
- Continent
- Oceania
- Country
- Australia
- Region
- Tasmania
- Timezone
- Australia/Hobart
- Coordinates
- -42.9764, 147.3035
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Worth the detour from Kingston
5 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
Australia's most controversial and provocative private museum, built underground in a Tasmanian winery.
19 km · about 20 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.
48 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.
51 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.
53 km · about 60 min drive
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