# Trial Harbour

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Town in Tasmania, Australia

Town in Tasmania, Australia

Trial Harbour Town Trial Harbour Coordinates: 41°55′46″S 145°10′33″E / 41.9295°S 145.1757°E / -41.9295; 145.1757 Country Australia State Tasmania Region North-west and west LGA West Coast Location 20 km (12 mi) SW of Zeehan Government • State electorate Braddon • Federal division Braddon Population • Total 24 (2016 census)[2] Postcode 7469 Localities around Trial Harbour West Coast West Coast West Coast Southern Ocean Trial Harbour West Coast Southern Ocean West Coast West Coast

**Trial Harbour** is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of [West Coast](/source/West_Coast_Council) in the [North-west and west](/source/North-west_and_west_LGA_Region) LGA region of [Tasmania](/source/Tasmania). The locality is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south-west of the town of [Zeehan](/source/Zeehan%2C_Tasmania). The [2016 census](/source/2016_Australian_census) recorded a population of 24 for the state suburb of Trial Harbour.[2]

It is a small anchorage on the [West Coast, Tasmania](/source/West_Coast%2C_Tasmania) and historical locality, located in the northern part of [Ocean Beach, Tasmania](/source/Ocean_Beach%2C_Tasmania). It was an exposed and particularly vulnerable anchorage which was susceptible to the prevailing local weather of the [Roaring Forties](/source/Roaring_Forties), seventeen miles north of Macquarie Heads (the entrance to [Macquarie Harbour](/source/Macquarie_Harbour)).

## History

The locality was named Remine until 1987, when it was renamed. Trial Harbour was gazetted as a locality in 1987.[3]

### Indigenous usage

Carvings and [middens](/source/Midden) were identified in the 1930s and 1990s.[4][5]

### European usage

It was named after the cutter *Trial*, which first anchored there in 1881,[6] and it was established by four Baltic sailors, Gustav Weber, and the three Karlson brothers, Karl, Peter and Steve, otherwise known as the Russian Finns.[7][8][9]

The harbour was utilised for a short while during the establishment of the early mining communities of [Zeehan](/source/Zeehan%2C_Tasmania), and [Queenstown](/source/Queenstown%2C_Tasmania), prior to the establishment of the settlements and facilities at [Strahan](/source/Strahan%2C_Tasmania) and [Regatta Point](/source/Regatta_Point%2C_Tasmania). It came under the control of the [Hobart Marine Board](/source/Port_of_Hobart).[10]

It had two hotels and other facilities in its early days[11] and currently it is the location of holiday homes.

It has been also a location on the west coast where whales have been sighted close to shore.[12]

Further north along the coast – a similarly dangerous and exposed location was [Granville Harbour](/source/Granville_Harbour).

## Geography

The waters of the [Southern Ocean](/source/Southern_Ocean) form the western boundary, and the Little Henty River forms most of the southern.[13]

## Road infrastructure

Route C248 (Trial Harbour Road) enters from east and runs through to the west, where it ends.[3][14]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Australian Bureau of Statistics](/source/Australian_Bureau_of_Statistics) (28 June 2022). ["Trial Harbour (suburb and locality)"](https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL60691). *Australian Census 2021 QuickStats*. Retrieved 28 June 2022.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Census2016Y_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Census2016Y_2-1) ["2016 Census Quick Stats Trial Harbour (Tas.)"](https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC60684?opendocument). *quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au*. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 23 October 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2020.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Placename_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Placename_3-1) ["Placenames Tasmania – Trial Harbour"](https://www.placenames.tas.gov.au/#p1). Placenames Tasmania. Select “Search”, enter "23059S", click “Search”, select row, map is displayed, click “Details”. Retrieved 13 September 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Jones, J. F (1937), [*Aboriginal carvings found at Trial Harbour*](https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/228843343), retrieved 24 December 2019

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Jones, Julie; Caville, Jeanymaree (1993), [*Sites at Trial Harbour, West Coast of Tasmania*](https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/228840566), retrieved 24 December 2019

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["HOBART SHIPPING"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38267399). *[Launceston Examiner](/source/Launceston_Examiner)*. Tasmania, Australia. 10 February 1882. p. 2. Retrieved 25 December 2019 – via Trove.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [The Peaks of Lyell](/source/The_Peaks_of_Lyell) pp.18 of the fourth edition

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["The Karlson Brothers"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67117428). *[The Advocate (Australia)](/source/The_Advocate_(Tasmania))*. Tasmania, Australia. 7 January 1924. p. 4. Retrieved 25 December 2019 – via Trove.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["EARLY HISTORY OF MOUNT LYELL"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232579253). *[The Mount Lyell Standard And Strahan Gazette](/source/The_Mount_Lyell_Standard_And_Strahan_Gazette)*. Tasmania, Australia. 20 February 1897. p. 4. Retrieved 25 December 2019 – via Trove.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["TRIAL HARBOUR"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12707025). *[The Mercury](/source/The_Mercury_(Hobart))*. Hobart, Tas. 3 November 1890. p. 4. Retrieved 28 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** page 184 of Atkinson, Sue, (Museum consultant), (compiler.) (2012), *Tasmania : island of treasures*, 40 Degrees South, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-9874468-1-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9874468-1-7){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Whales at Trial Harbour"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29214631). *[The Mercury](/source/The_Mercury_(Hobart))*. Hobart, Tas. 22 February 1938. p. 2. Retrieved 28 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** ["Trial Harbour, Tasmania"](https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Trial+Harbour+TAS+7469/@-41.920608,145.1683386,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0xaa64d12b2eb9c15f:0x403c94dd0de02f0!8m2!3d-41.9295278!4d145.1756655) (Map). *[Google Maps](/source/Google_Maps)*. Retrieved 13 September 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** ["Tasmanian Road Route Codes"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170801112712/http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/Route%20Descriptions%20V3.6.pdf) (PDF). Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment. May 2017. Archived from [the original](https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/Route%20Descriptions%20V3.6.pdf) (PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2020.

## References

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

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