Hotels Near Queenstown

Queenstown

Addresses :Strahan Visitor Centre,
Queenstown
Tasmania,7468
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Chancellor Inn Queenstown

Queen Style Room - was $180  now from $80

MARCH TO APRIL 30% TO 50% OFF RACK RATE ROOM SPECIAL. Only a 2 minute walk to the town centre. BOOK NOW DONT MISS OUT ON THESE BIG SPECIALS. RATES WILL VARY DAILY. view

Historic Queenstown, the largest settlement on Tasmanias west coast, is best known for its copper mines and smelters.
The town, with a population of more than 2,300, occupies the Queen River Valley, but it takes imagination to picture how it must have looked before the surrounding hills were deforested by 19th century mining practices.
While you are in town, you can visit Miners Siding and the Galley Museum, or venture underground on a tour that reveals Queenstowns rich mining history. These tours claim to be the only that take you to the working face of a mine.
In a dramatic contrast to the scarred hills, wilderness walks in nearby areas take you through dense, wildlife-inhabited forest to disused tramlines and mineshafts, lookouts and waterfalls including Tasmanias highest, Montezuma Falls.
You can explore the regions natural beauty on the West Coast Wilderness Railway to the port of Strahan one of Australias great historic train journeys. If youre a sports enthusiast, youll be impressed by the towns gravel football ground (they breed their footballers tough on the west coast).
Queenstown was first explored in the 1860s by Charles Gould but wasnt settled until 1881, when Cornelius Lynch discovered gold in a nearby creek. Throughout the towns 110-year mining history, diminishing gold resources resulted in a shift to copper mining. Large copper smelters, fuelled by surrounding timber, polluted the area and left the landscape sparse.
Queenstowns spectacular natural waterfalls and its equally impressive man-made quarries and mines are a two-hour drive from Burnie, or three hours along the Lyell Highway (A 10) from Hobart.
Be prepared for wet weather and strong winds anywhere on the west coast. In Queenstown, the average maximum temperature for June is 12 degrees Celsius (53.5 degrees Fahrenheit), for January 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit).

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