# Regatta Point

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Port and locality in Western Tasmania, Australia

Viewed from [Strahan](/source/Strahan%2C_Tasmania) in 2008

**Regatta Point** is the location of a port and on [Macquarie Harbour](/source/Macquarie_Harbour), [Tasmania](/source/Tasmania).

## Port

Regatta Point is often assumed into the name of the locality across the bay in [Macquarie Harbour](/source/Macquarie_Harbour), [Strahan](/source/Strahan%2C_Tasmania). The other ports in Macquarie Harbour were Strahan, and [Pillinger](/source/Pillinger%2C_Tasmania) at the southern end of the harbour. Most shipping through the notorious [Hells Gates](/source/Hells_Gates_(Tasmania)) is now the fishing fleet.

The last sea-based delivery of explosives for the [Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company](/source/Mount_Lyell_Mining_%26_Railway_Company) occurred as late as 1976.

## Railway terminus

It was the port and terminus of the [Mount Lyell railway line](/source/Mount_Lyell_railway_line) from [Queenstown](/source/Queenstown_railway_station).[1] When fully operational before closure in the 1960s, it was the location of the transfer of Mount Lyell materials to ships.[2]

Regatta Point was the location of the connection between the Mount Lyell private railway and the [Zeehan to Strahan line](/source/Zeehan_to_Strahan_railway_line), which passed through Strahan on the way to [Zeehan](/source/Zeehan_railway_station).

### Station

Station at left from the north in 2008, [Macquarie Harbour](/source/Macquarie_Harbour) at rear, former wharf at right

An earlier building at the station location was burnt down in 1900.[3] It is currently the [West Coast Wilderness Railway](/source/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.[4]

## Nearest ports

Outside of Macquarie Harbour – on the north coast of Tasmania – Burnie or the southeast [Hobart](/source/Hobart) – smaller anchorages exist in between – but are either facility-free [Port Davey](/source/Port_Davey) or dangerous [Trial Harbour](/source/Trial_Harbour).

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [*Photograph – Regatta Point, Strahan – Railway yards*](http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36491911), LINC Tasmania, 1900, retrieved 25 January 2016: photograph shows railway station, railway sheds, railway yard, and wharf before 1910

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** The site and remains of loading ramps and structures at the west end of the former wharf can still be seen

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Disastrous Fire"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83738212). *[[Zeehan & Dundas Herald|]]*. Tas. 22 December 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 26 February 2014 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Andrew C. Ward & Associates (1992), [*Regatta Point Railway Station conservation plan*](http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21290259), Andrew C Ward, retrieved 26 February 2014

## References

- [Blainey, Geoffrey](/source/Geoffrey_Blainey) (2000). *[The Peaks of Lyell](/source/The_Peaks_of_Lyell)* (6th ed.). Hobart: St David's Park Publishing. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-7246-2265-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7246-2265-9).

- Rae, Lou (2001). *The Abt Railway and Railways of the Lyell region*. Sandy Bay: [Lou Rae](/source/Lou_Rae). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-9592098-7-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9592098-7-5).

- [Whitham, Charles](/source/Charles_Whitham) (2003). *Western Tasmania – A land of riches and beauty* (2003 ed.). Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.

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