19-549: Kingston Beach is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Kingborough in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania . The locality is about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south-east of the town of Kingston . The 2021 census recorded a population of 2305 for the state suburb of Kingston Beach. It is a suburb of the greater Hobart area. It is located on the River Derwent at the mouth of Browns Rivulet . It
38-476: A manufacturing industry, primarily through Taroona Shot Tower . Sandfly became a centre for small fruits and apple orcharding. The decline of the apple industry progressed during the 1960s, but the industry collapsed entirely following the 1967 Tasmanian fires , when much of the municipality was devastated and most orchards burnt down. A memorial to the 62 fatalities of the fire was constructed in Snug following
57-507: A population of 249. When proclaimed on 20 August 1907, the Kingborough Municipality comprised 3 wards: Kingston, Margate and Longley. On 2 April 1993 Kingborough absorbed the former municipality of Bruny. In 1877 Keen's Curry was invented in the municipality. The area developed as a holiday area, especially the suburbs of Kingston Beach and Blackmans Bay. Margate and Kettering operated fishing fleets and Taroona had
76-549: A population of 37,734, it covers the transition from the southern urban areas of Hobart through Kingston , as well as encompassing Bruny Island . The origin of Kingborough Council is a simple derivation from the name of the main town. The name Kingston was suggested by Mr Lucas in 1851, and the area had been known as Brown's River before then. Why he suggested this name is unknown. Mr Lucas' parents had been raised in England near New Kingston, they had come from Norfolk Island where
95-465: A prominent mansion which is now Kingston Golf Club. Early Kingston developed primarily around The Red House. Development of Kingborough was slow and the first post office opened only in the 1840s. The first road to Hobart, Proctors Road, was opened in 1835. Kingston was proclaimed a town in 1851. The town’s name was suggested by the then Police Magistrate, a member of the Lucas family. By 1890 Kingston had
114-570: A single day. Property loss was also extensive with 1293 homes and over 1700 other buildings destroyed. The fires destroyed 80 bridges, 4800 sections of power lines, 1500 motor vehicles and over 100 other structures. It was estimated that at least 62,000 farm animals were killed. The total damage amounted to $ 40,000,000 in 1967 Australian dollar values. The resulting insurance payout was the then largest in Australian history. In 2017 2 more people that had died were officially recognised as victims of
133-497: The Black Tuesday bushfires. They were the most deadly bushfires that Tasmania has ever experienced, leaving 64 people dead, 900 injured and over seven thousand homeless. 110 separate fire fronts burnt through some 2,640 square kilometres (652,000 acres) of land in southern Tasmania within the space of five hours. Fires raged from near Hamilton and Bothwell to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel as well as Snug . There
152-456: The 110 fires were started accidentally. Shortly before midday on the 7th, a combination of extremely high temperatures, (the maximum was 39 °C (102 °F)), very low humidity and very strong winds from the northwest led to disaster. Although this fire was by far the worst in loss of life and property in Tasmanian history, the meteorological conditions are common. McArthur's report on
171-660: The Kingston Beach Progress Association, Kingston Beach Regatta Association, or the Kingston Beach Progress and Regatta Association. Kingston Beach was gazetted as a locality in 1960. The waters of the River Derwent estuary form the eastern boundary. Beginning at Tyndall Beach, the Alum Cliffs stretch through the neighbouring suburb of Bonnet Hill to Hinsby Beach at Taroona . Route B68 ( Channel Highway ) passes to
190-459: The advent of a "new type" of bushfire in which suburban areas of large cities were threatened, contrasting with earlier major fires which had solely occurred in rural areas. A memorial for the 1967 Bushfires was built at Snug in the Kingborough municipality, south of Hobart, where a plaque with the names of the 62 people killed is fixed to a brick chimney. The memorial has storyboards telling
209-477: The bushfires, they had previously been excluded as the deaths had not been investigated by the coroner at the time. This took the death toll from 62 to 64 people. The late winter and early spring of 1966 had been wet over southeastern Tasmania, resulting in a large amount of vegetation growth by November. However, in November, Tasmania began its driest eight-month period since 1885, and by the end of January 1967
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#1732801407057228-531: The capital was Kingston or it might have been named after the Governor of New Norfolk Philip Gidley King . Europeans settled in the Kingborough Council’s district in 1808 at Brown’s River (Promenalinah), named after Robert Brown , botanist in 1804. The town and district were both known as Brown’s River during the earliest periods of settlement. The Lucas family settled the area and built The Red House,
247-532: The fire notes that "very similar conditions have occurred on three or four occasions during the past 70 years." If considered in terms of both loss of property and loss of life, in 1967 this represented one of the worst disasters to have occurred in Australia . It is comparable in scale with the 1939 Black Friday bushfires in Victoria (where the loss of 72 lives was nevertheless spread over several days) and
266-1346: The fire, where 80 of the towns 120 buildings burned and a permanent exhibition is present at the Channel Heritage Centre. Localities and smaller towns of the region include Taroona , Kettering , Margate , Snug , Blackmans Bay and Woodbridge . Kingston is classified as urban, fringe and medium (UFM) under the Australian Classification of Local Governments. • Blackmans Bay • Bonnet Hill • Howden • Huntingfield • Kingston • Kingston Beach • Taroona • Adventure Bay • Allens Rivulet • Alonnah • Apollo Bay • Barnes Bay • Barretta • Birchs Bay • Coningham • Dennes Point • Electrona • Fern Tree • Flowerpot • Garden Island Creek • Gordon • Great Bay • Kaoota • Kettering • Killora • Leslie Vale • Longley • Lower Longley • Lower Snug • Lunawanna • Margate • Middleton • Mount Nelson • Neika • North Bruny • Oyster Cove • Pelverata • Sandfly • Simpsons Bay • Snug • South Bruny • Tinderbox • Wellington Park • Woodbridge 1967 Tasmanian fires The 1967 Tasmanian fires were an Australian natural disaster which occurred on 7 February 1967, an event which came to be known as
285-466: The luxuriant growth in the area had dried off. Though January was a cool month, hot weather began early in February, so that in the days leading up to 7 February 1967, several bush fires were burning uncontrolled in the areas concerned. Some of these fires had been deliberately lit for burning off, despite the extremely dry conditions at the time. Reports into the causes of the fire stated that only 22 of
304-542: The north-west. From there, several roads provide access to the locality. This Kingborough geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kingborough Council Kingborough Council is a local government body in Tasmania , and one of the five municipalities that constitutes the Greater Hobart Area . Kingborough is classified as an urban local government area and has
323-401: The subsequent 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia , which claimed 75 lives and razed over 2,000 homes. The 2009 Black Saturday bushfires north of Melbourne , and elsewhere in Victoria , in which 173 people died, share the same commencement date of 7 February. Australian National University history professor Tom Griffiths has described the 1967 fires as marking
342-693: Was extensive damage to agricultural property along the Channel, the Derwent Valley and the Huon Valley . Fires also destroyed forest, public infrastructure and properties around Mount Wellington and many small towns along the Derwent estuary and east of Hobart . The worst of the fires was the Hobart Fire , which encroached upon the city of Hobart . In total, the fires claimed 64 lives in
361-430: Was originally known as Browns River Beach in the 1850s. Kingston Beach was a regularly photographed location in the twentieth century. The beach is patrolled by Kingston Beach Surf Life Saving Club between the months of December and April. Other facilities include a dog beach, bike park, barbecue area, sailing club, playgrounds and various shops. The local Progress Association served between 1925 and 1992, known as either
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