# West Coast Piners

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**West Coast Piners** were groups of men who worked on the [West Coast](/source/West_Coast%2C_Tasmania) of Tasmania, Australia, logging [Huon pine](/source/Huon_pine).

In most cases they used [Strahan](/source/Strahan%2C_Tasmania) as their base, as it was the port from which the timber was shipped. The main eras of the Piners were the [Sarah Island](/source/Sarah_Island_(Tasmania)) convict era (1821–33, 1846–47) and the period from the 1890s to the 1940s.[1]

Most of their activities were focused on the rivers (and their tributaries) that flow into [Macquarie Harbour](/source/Macquarie_Harbour) – the [King River](/source/King_River%2C_Tasmania) and the [Gordon River](/source/Gordon_River)[2] The smaller rivers flowing into Macquarie Harbour on the eastern side are Pine Cove Creek, the Braddon River, the Clark River, and the Bird River. Also [Birch's Inlet](/source/Birch's_Inlet) was an area where pine was transported from.

They were celebrated by an annual event at Strahan, known as the Piners' Festival, which was conducted for a few years.[3]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Kerr, Garry, and Harry McDermott, *The Huon Pine Story (The History of Harvest and Use of a Unique Timber)*, 2nd ed. (Portland, Vic.: Mainsail, 2004). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-9577917-0-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9577917-0-4)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Flanagan, Richard](/source/Richard_Flanagan), *A terrible beauty: History of the Gordon River Country* (Richmond, Vic.: Greenhouse, 1985). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-86436-001-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-86436-001-0)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [http://pandora.nla.gov.au/parchive/2001/S2001-Apr-4/www.federation100.tas.gov.au/calendar.html](http://pandora.nla.gov.au/parchive/2001/S2001-Apr-4/www.federation100.tas.gov.au/calendar.html) March 2001 – as part of the Centenary of Federation festivities in Tasmania

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