{{Short description|Port and locality in Western Tasmania, Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}} [[File:Regatta_Point_steam.JPG|thumb|Viewed from [[Strahan, Tasmania|Strahan]] in 2008]] '''Regatta Point''' is the location of a port and on [[Macquarie Harbour]], [[Tasmania]].
==Port== Regatta Point is often assumed into the name of the locality across the bay in [[Macquarie Harbour]], [[Strahan, Tasmania|Strahan]]. The other ports in Macquarie Harbour were Strahan, and [[Pillinger, Tasmania|Pillinger]] at the southern end of the harbour. Most shipping through the notorious [[Hells Gates (Tasmania)|Hells Gates]] is now the fishing fleet.
The last sea-based delivery of explosives for the [[Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company]] occurred as late as 1976.
== Railway terminus == It was the port and terminus of the [[Mount Lyell railway line]] from [[Queenstown railway station|Queenstown]].<ref>{{Citation | title=Photograph – Regatta Point, Strahan – Railway yards | publication-date=1900 | publisher=LINC Tasmania | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36491911 | access-date=25 January 2016 }}: photograph shows railway station, railway sheds, railway yard, and wharf before 1910</ref> When fully operational before closure in the 1960s, it was the location of the transfer of Mount Lyell materials to ships.<ref>The site and remains of loading ramps and structures at the west end of the former wharf can still be seen</ref>
Regatta Point was the location of the connection between the Mount Lyell private railway and the [[Zeehan to Strahan railway line|Zeehan to Strahan line]], which passed through Strahan on the way to [[Zeehan railway station|Zeehan]].
===Station=== [[File:Regatta Point railway station Tasmania.jpg|thumb|Station at left from the north in 2008, [[Macquarie Harbour]] at rear, former wharf at right]] An earlier building at the station location was burnt down in 1900.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83738212 |title=Disastrous Fire. |newspaper=[[Zeehan & Dundas Herald|]] |location=Tas. |date=22 December 1900 |access-date=26 February 2014 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> It is currently the [[West Coast Wilderness Railway]] terminus. The remaining station building at Regatta Point has been restored for the new service, having lain at risk from the 1960s to the 1990s.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Andrew C. Ward & Associates | title=Regatta Point Railway Station conservation plan | publication-date=1992 | publisher=Andrew C Ward | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21290259 | access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
==Nearest ports== Outside of Macquarie Harbour – on the north coast of Tasmania – Burnie or the southeast [[Hobart]] – smaller anchorages exist in between – but are either facility-free [[Port Davey]] or dangerous [[Trial Harbour]].
==Notes== {{reflist}}
==References== * {{cite book| author-link=Geoffrey Blainey|last=Blainey|first=Geoffrey| title= [[The Peaks of Lyell]] | edition=6th | publisher=St David's Park Publishing | location=Hobart| year=2000| isbn=0-7246-2265-9}} * {{cite book| author=Rae, Lou|title=The Abt Railway and Railways of the Lyell region | publisher=[[Lou Rae]]| location=Sandy Bay|year=2001| isbn=0-9592098-7-5}} * {{cite book| author-link = Charles Whitham|last=Whitham|first= Charles| title=Western Tasmania – A land of riches and beauty| edition=2003| publisher=Municipality of Queenstown| location=Queenstown| year = 2003}}
{{Western Tasmania |state=collapsed}}
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[[Category:Localities of West Coast Council]] [[Category:Macquarie Harbour]]