Port Sorell
12.1.1819. King. Named after William Sorell, Lieut Governor, Tasmania.

Pardoe Beach
Named for an early European settler.

Tea Tree Lane Beach
It was at the end of Tea Tree Lane Beach, East Devonport.

Flour Mill Bay
In the early days of Tasmania, a flourishing industry in many districts was flour-milling. But Federation dealt the death-blow to the industry and to wheat-growing with the formation of pools and monopolies.

River Mersey/Mersey Bluff
Named by a party which included E Curr, H Hellyer, Joseph Fossey, C P Lorymer and five men of the VDL Company. Recalls the River Mersey in Liverpool, England. Paranaple is the indigenous name of the Mersey River section that flows through Devonport.

Coles Beach
Recalls Henry Cole who had block of land near western end of beach.

Don River
The upper reaches of the Don were shown as Lukin Rivulet on N L Kentish's Plan 1840's. Henry Hellyer named the river after the River Don in Britain. The Don River Tramway was built in 1854 to transport timber from the Don River valley. The present railway uses a section of line built in 1916 by BHP to carry limestone from quarries at Melrose to the port. The Don River Railway was established at the Don in 1973, trains commenced operating in November 1976.

Lillico Beach
Originally Approved and Gazetted as Lillicos Beach, replaced by Lillico Beach in 1980. The name is believed to recall an early European settler.

River Forth
Believed to have been named after ship which passed through Bass Strait in 1833. The name shown on Thomas Scotts Map 1830, also map by Joseph Fossey in 1827.

Turners Beach
Named in honour of Mr Glen Turner by Ulverstone Council. Mr Turner had much to do with the development of the area for holiday makers.

Port Fenton
A cairn recording the location of the first European settlement of the area in 1840 by James Fenton (1820–1901) is situated 100 metres from Forth Bridge in Turners Beach and was also the site of the pioneer and historian's house.

Claytons Bay/Rivulet
An early resident.

Buttons Beach
Recalls an early European settler, Henry Button.

River Leven
Name given by Van Diemen's Land Company after a river in Scotland.

Three Sisters
So named because it is comprises of three small rock islands.

Lodders Point
Named after Major-General Lodder, a retired English soldier, who built 'Lonah' about 1875.

Penguin Point
Location of a fairy penguin colony.

Watcombe Beach
Origin unknown.

Stubbs Point
Located at the western end of Esplanade at Penguin at mouth of Penguin Creek.

Johnsons Beach
A local resident.

Dial Point, Penguin
Taken from Mount Dial and/or The Gnomon, named by Hellyer.

Sulphur Creek/Sulphur Creek Point
Previously named Howth Point. Mr Hugh Hiscutt of Howth asserts (June 2001) that the point is wrongly named and should be 'Hall Point', the name commonly used by local people for an estimated 60 years. Derived from the fact that the original school hall was located just above the point.

Preservation Bay
Generally believed to have been so named by an early navigator, probably Bass, who put in there for water there. This is unlikely, as the earliest map on which name appears seems to be Sprent's of 1859.

Blythe River/Heads
Named after Blyth River in England about 1827 by Van Diemen's Land Company.

Titan Point
Origin unknown.

Round Hill Point
At the foot of Round Hill.

Wivenhoe Beach
Named after the Town (and parish of Wivenhoe) in Essex County, England, by Captain Henry Butler Stoney (of Essex) in the 1850's. It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wiivnhou.

Romaine Creek
William Romaine was one of the first settlers brought in by the VDL Co.

Emu Bay/River
Emus were common there when early settlers arrived.

Blackman Point
Origin unknown.

Parsonage Point
Site of an early Anglican Church parsonage.

Red Rock Point
Descriptive.

Cooee Point/Cooee Beach
An boriginal call in the bush that means 'come to me'. Cooee Creek was oritinally known as Turnmill Creek as recorded by Hellyer, May 1827.

Cam River
)riginally called the Emu River by Hellyer in 1827. There are two occurrences of 'River Cam' in England, the larger being in Cambridgeshire, flows through Cambridge; the other is in Glouschestershire on West Coast.Known as Piwangka to the local Aboriginal peoples of the area.

MacKenzies Beach
)riginally called the Emu River by Hellyer in 1827. There are two occurrences of 'River Cam' in England, the larger being in Cambridgeshire, flows through Cambridge; the other is in Glouschestershire on West Coast.Known as Piwangka to the local Origin unknown.

Doctors Rocks
Two suggestions are give: 1. Named after Doctor Wilkinson who, in the pioneer days, was the only doctor between Ulverstone and Circular Head.
2. Named after Dr Thomas Wilson whose property was 'Altraville', later named Doctors Rocks.

Burntwoo Point
First recorded on Henry Hellyer's Map, 1827

Inglis River
Inglis Street & River after John Inglis, first chairman Court of Directors, Van Diemens Land (VDL) Company, London, 1824.

Freestone Cove
Near Fossil Bluff, both names of which are descriptive of the rocks found there.

Table Cape
1.11.1798. Flinders. Its appearance, a steep, cliffy head with a flat top (it is the core of an extinct volcano).

Boat Harbour Beach
Boat Harbour was originally gazetted as Allen Siding, changed to Boat Harbour in 1954. Allans Siding was a railway station situated about 4 km west of Flowerdale, on the North West Coast Railway, and about 1.6 km south of the township of the same name.

Western Bay
Its location in relation to Table Cape.

Sisters Beach
The beach has been known by that name for many years but its origin is unknown.

Anniversary Bay
Origin of the name is unknown.

Half Tide Rock
The rock is covered above half tide.

Burgess Cove
Captain John Burgess was one of the first men to use Rocky Cape as a trading post.

Rocky Cape
5.12.1798. Flinders. Its appearance.

Mary Ann Cove
Originally known as 'Port Mary Ann' after one of the ships of Captain John Burgess that traded here.

Detention River
Originally named Tret River. Known as Mayntranga to the local Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples. Named Detention River by Joseph Fossey of the survey vessel, Caroline, April & May 1827.

Edgcumbe Beach
It is believed that the name Edgcumbe Beach had apparently come from a grant in the vicinity in the name of Mary Edgcumbe. The sand dunes nearby had been once known as Edgcumbe Bank.

Hellyer Beach
Named after Henry Hellyer, Architect and Surveyor VDL Company. Henry Hellyer was born at Portchester in Hampshire circa 1790. He arrived in Tasmania in 1826 and commited suicide in 1832.

Crayfish Creek
Henry Hellyer, Architect and Surveyor VDL Company, caught crayfish there in 1827.

Port Latta
Originally known as Cowrie Point. Latta is the native name for iron ore. It was chosen because Port Latta was established as the location for an iron ore pelletising plant and port from which iron ore mined at Savage River is exported.

Brickmakers Bay
A beach between Black River and Brickmakers Bay had been known as Peggs Beach, after a family in the vicinity.

Little Pegg's Beach
The name recalls a family in the vicinity that lived in the vicinity.

Black River
Black River was first listed in Walch's Almanac in 1878. Recalls John Black, commander of the Harbinger.

Sawyer Bay
Originally known as Easy Bay. Orihin unknown.

Tatlows Beach
Recalls the head of the pioneer family was wheelwright and blacksmith, Anthony Tatlow (1832-1885), who came to Tasmania from County Cavan, Northern Ireland as an infant. His wife, Hannah Tatlow, nee Burke (1846-1918), was also from Northern Ireland. They had eight children, ran coaching and hotel businesses and were well-loved members of the Stanley community. The beach was the scene of the stranding of 300 whales in 1935.

Circular Head
5.12.1798. Flinders. Shaped like a christmas cake (it is the core of an extinct volcano).

The Nut
Some say the name came from when the breakwater was built in 1892. The side of the Nut was packed with explosives to construct the breakwater, once detonated nothing happened and no rocks fell from the side of the Nut. Apparently most of the crowd that gathered to watch the event, agreed that is was a 'Hard Nut to Crack'. Othere say it is a shortened version of the Aboriginal name for it - Moo-Nut-Re-Ker.

Highfield Pt
Takes its name from Highfield House, which can be regarded as the 'birthplace' of European settlement in Tasmania's north-west. Built from 1832-35 as a residence for Edward Curr, chief agent of the Van Diemen's Land Company, the house represents an important part of Tasmanian historic heritage.

Anthony Beach
Locally and originally known as Seven Mile Beach - it was changed because of duplications. The Anthony family lived for many years in vicinity of beach.

Perkins Bay
Perkins Bay appears to have first been shown on 4 miles to inch State Map 1944. Shown as West Bay on an 1883 map of Tasmania. Named after early settler and land grantee, James Perkins.

Perkins Island
Known as tunawukarin to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.

Half Moon Bay
Descriptive of its shape.

Robbins Isld / Robbins Passage
Named after Charles Robbins, master, Buffalo, 1804. It was Robbins who claimed King Island for the British Crown in May 1803.

North Pt, Robbins Isld
Descriptive of the point's location.

West Pt, Robbins Isld
Descriptive of the point's location.

Cape Elie, Robbins Isld
Cape Elie is also known as Robbin Point. Origin unknown.

Ransonnet Bay, Robbins Isld
4.2.1802. Baudin. Named after Jacques-Joseph Ransonnet, engineer, Geographe. He was a close friend of Freycinet.

Walker Isld/Walker Channel
Origin unknown.

Cape Buache
Beautemps-Beaupré of the French Baudin expedition was a cousin and protege of the Kings geographer Buache, then an employee of Fleurieu. Because of his outstanding skill in compiling maps in Paris from voyage data with which he was provided, he was chosen to participate in the DEntrecasteaux voyage in 1791 in search of Lapérouse. He proved to be highly gifted at creating maps at sea.

Petrel Isld
Petrels seen there.

Henderson Islets
Origin unknown.

Boullanger Bay
Named after cartographer, navigator, engineer and shipwright Charles-Pierre Boullanger of Baudin's expedition.

Fleurieu Group
Named after Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu, the French explorer and hydrographer, by the French explorer Nicolas Baudin.

Three Hummock Isld
1802. Murray. Its appearance.

Cape Rochon
25.2.1802, Baudin. Thought to be named after Rosette Rochen, a free woman of colour and French creole, who was born a decade before the American Revolution in about 1767 in Mobile, Alabama. She died in New Orleans during the Civil War at a very advanced age in 1863. She grew to be a successful entrepreneur, a landowner, a grocer, and a financier. She made a contribution of unquestioned importance to the neighborhood, the city, and Creole culture.

Cape Adamson

The actual spelling on Louis de Freycinet's chart shows C Andanson.

Coulomb Bay
25.2.1802, Baudin. Named after Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736- 1806), Fench physicist.

Hunter Islds Group / Hunter Isld
10.12.1798. Flinders. Named after John Hunter, Governor, New South Wales, 1795-1800. Unaware that it had already been named by Flinders, Baudin named it Fleurieu Island in 1802 but this name was never adopted or used. Baudin named the islands after the French explorer and hydrographer Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu.

Cape Keraudren, Hunter Isld
25.2.1802, Baudin. Named after Pierre Francois Keraudren (1769-1858), Medical inspector of the French Navy.

King Island
1.1.1801. Black. King Island was first discovered in 1798 by Captain Reed in the Martha. It is named in 1801 by John Black, commander of the Harbinger, after Philip Parker King, Governor of New South Wales.

Stokes Point, King Isld
25.11.1838. Wickham. Named after John Lort Stokes, Lieutenant and Assistant Surveyor, Beagle.

Surprise Pt, King Isld
11.1.1802. Murray.

Cataque Pt, King Isld
February 1802, Baudin. The name appears to have associations with Cataque in the African state of Guinea-Bissau.

Fitzmaurice Bay, King Isld
29.11.1838. Wickham. Named after Lewis Roper Fitzmaurice, surveyor and ship's mate, HMS Beagle.

Waterwitch Reef, King Isld
29.11.1838. Wickham. Named after the sailing cutter Waterwitch which travelled the ports of the Australian coastline in the 1830s and 1840s.

Currie Harbour, King Isld
Capt. Archibald Currie (1830-1914), master mariner and businessman. The ship Netherby ran onto rocks south of the harbour mouth here in 1866, and was taken into the harbour for salvaging by Currie. The harbour and later the settlement were named in his honour.

Whistler Pt, King Isld
The ship Whistler was wrecked near here in 1855.

New Year Isld, King Isld
1.1.1801. Black. Rounded on New Years Day.

Phoques Bay, King Isld
January 1802, Baudin. French for Seal Bay.

Cape Farewell, King Isld
26.1.1802. Murray. Expedition left the coast here.

Cape Wickham, King Isld
30.11.1838. Wickham. Named after John Clements Wickham, expedition leader of HMS Beagle. Wickham's made a major contribution to surveying various coasts of Australia from 1838 to 1840, including the north west coast in the vicinity of Wickham.

Boulder Pt, King Isld
17.1.1802. Murray. Large rocks found there.

Lavinia Pt, King Isld
King Island was first discovered in 1798 by Captain Reed in the Martha. Shown on L. Freycinet's Chart of 1802/1803 as Cap Chardin. The Schooner Martha & Lavinia was wrecked near here in 1871.

Sea Elephant Rock / Sea Elephant Bay, King Isld
December 1801. Baudin. Numerous sea elephants blocked the passage.

Fraser Bluff, King Isld
17.1.1802. Murray. Shown on L Freycinet's Chart of 1802/1803 as Cape Plumier.

Bold Head, King Isld
17.1.1802. Murray. Descriptive.

Grassy Pt, King Isld
30.11.1838. Wickham. Descriptive.

Seal Pt / Seal Bay, King Isld
1.1.1801. Black. A large seal colony seen here.

Reid Rock, King Isld
1799. Recalls Captain Reid of the brig 'Martha', which sailed out of Sydney on a sealing voyage.

Black Pyramid
Recalls Capt John Black of the brigantine 'Harbinger' sailed in these waters, circa 1801. Located approx half-way between southern end of King Island and Cape Grim, height 70 metres.

Albatross Isld
10.12.1798. Flinders. Many albatrosses seen nesting there.

Trefoil Isld
10.12.1798. Flinders. Shaped like a clover leaf.

Barren Island
10.12.1798. Flinders. Its appearance.

Woolnorth Pt
A prominent peak in this area shown on L Freycinet's Chart of 1802/1803 as Piton Faujas (Harcus Hill). Woolnorth is derived from VDL Co's charter to administer the grant of land on which fine wool was to be produced in the north of the colony. Known as layrimanuk to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.

Flat Topped Bluff
10.12.1798. Flinders. Descriptive.

Bluff Pt
10.12.1798. Descriptive.

Cape Grim
7.12.1798. Flinders. This headland was named by Matthew Flinders as he sailed from the East in the Norfolk and found a long swell coming from the South-west, confirming for the first time that Van Diemen's Land was separated from the Australian mainland by a strait which he named Bass Strait. Known as Pilri by the local Tasmanian Aboriginals.

Valley Bay
10.12.1798. Flinders. Descriptive.

Slaughter Hill
Recalls an incident on 10 February 1828 in which a group of Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach in the north-west of Tasmania is said to have been ambushed and shot by four Van Diemen's Land Company (VDLC) workers, with bodies of some of the victims then thrown from a 60-metre (200 ft) cliff. About 30 men are thought to have been killed in the attack, which was a reprisal action for an earlier Aboriginal raid on a flock of Van Diemen's Land Company sheep, but part of an escalating spiral of violence probably triggered by the abduction and rape of Aboriginal women in the area.

Studland Bay
10.12.1798. Flinders. Recalls Studland is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. It is famous for its beaches and nature reserve, which Flinders found similar to this locality. Known as paytataniyak to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.

Calm Bay
10.12.1798. Flinders. Descriptive.

Green Pt
10.12.1798. Flinders. Its appearance.

West Pt
The most westerly point on the coast. Dual names for geographical features across Tasmania are now common: the aboriginal name for West Point is nungu.

Arthur River
Named in 1827 by Hellyer as compliment to Governor Arthur. The Aboriginal word for this area is 'tunganrick', the name of the river was Maydim. Ir was named Church River by Jorgensen.

Bluff Hill Pt
10.12.1798. Flinders. Its appearance. Nearby Bottle flats is named for the bottlebrush growing around that part.

Sundown Pt
Shown as Sandown on Frankland's and Sprent's maps, spelt with "u" on all maps since. Known to the local Tasmanian Aboriginal people as laraturunawn.

Nelson Bay
The brig Lady Nelson that was based in Sydney and brought the first European settlers to Hobart. In March 1801, she was sent to re-examine Bass Strait by Governor King. On this voyage she made the first survey of Westernport Bay (Vic). From November 1801 to March 1802, under the command of Lieutenant John Murray, the Lady Nelson explored Bass Strait and most of King Island. It was on this voyage that Port Phillip was discovered and explored. From July to November of 1802, she accompanied the Investigator (under Lieutenant Matthew Flinders) north to assist in the charting of the coastline. After damaging herself on the corals of the Great Barrier Reef, she had to turn back to Sydney, necessitating Flinders to continue alone.

Couta Rocks
A group of offshore rocks adjacent to the Couta Rocks shack area on the West Coast. May also be unofficially referred to as 'Lobster Rocks'.

Gaffney Point
Recalls J J Gaffney, a merchant and publican of the west coast.

Temma Harbour
Temma was the port for the 700 residents of the tin mining town of Balfour. A $20,000 fishing boat sank in heavy seas off Temma Harbour, on Tasmania's West Coast.

Richardson Point
An early resident of Temma.

Dartys Corner
A man by the name of Bill Dart had a shack here for years.

Eva Point
Named after ship wrecked there in 1880. It has also been known as Whale Head.

Hazard Bay
Named because the ship Eva wrecked near there in 1880.

Driftwood Cove
Peobably because a lot of driftwood was sighted there.

Dawson Bay
Recalls a fisherman who had a shack there.

Gannet Point/Gulch
Origin unknown. Gannet Gulch has also been known as Gannet Harbour.

Smiths Gulch
Recalls a fisherman who had a shack there.

Schramms Cove
Recalls a fisherman who had a shack there.

Ordnance Pt
Probably a place from which a survey commenced.

Greenes Cove
Recalls a fisherman who had a shack there.

Venables Corner
Possibly recalls a fisherman who had a shack there.

Koonya Inlet
Origin unknown.

Sandy Cape/Sandy Cape Beach
Flinders. Descriptive.

Native Well Bay
Descriptive.

Johnsons Bay
Johnson was the name of a man who was drowned when a fishing boat was wrecked here, his body was buried in the sand but the skull later appeared - hence the name Skull Creek nearby.

Interview River
Recalls an encounter or'interview' explorers Clement Powell Lorymer and Jorgen Jorgensen had with a tribe of Tasmanian Aborigines in 1827. Appears to have first been shown on George Frankland's map 1837.

Rupert Point
Mr Rupert E Harrisson of Smithton said in July 1976 that his late father Kenneth M Harrisson applied this name after him. Known as laymanika to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.

Pieman Heads
Pieman Heads and he Pieman River gained its name from the notorious convict Alexander 'The Pieman' Pearce who was responsible for one of the few recorded instances of cannibalism in Australia.

Hardwick Bay
Named Hardwicke Bay by Board 1961 in honour of the Engineering Surveyor of that name who surveyed Pieman Area in 1920's. Douglas Axford Browne Hardwicke was a grandson of Captain Hardwicke.

Conical Rocks Point
Descriptive of an outcrop of rocks here.

Conical Harbour
A small bay south from Conical Rocks Point.

Ahrlberg Bay
Recalls Macquarie Harbour ferryman John Ahrberg.

Hoyle Creek
Shown on an 1899 map as Packet Creek. Recalls Henry Hoyle, mine manager. Zeehan.

Granville Head / Granville Harbour
Named after George Leveson-Gower, 2d Earl of Granville, 1815-91, British statesman. He entered Parliament as a Whig in 1836 and held various cabinet positions under Lord John Russell, the earl of Aberdeen, and Viscount Palmerston. As colonial secretary (1868-70, 1886) under William Gladstone, he had a large part in passing the bills that disestablished the Church of Ireland and began reforms in Irish land tenure. He was also foreign secretary (1870-74, 1880-85) under Gladstone.

Tasman River
Recalls Dutch exploer Abel Tasman who first made landfall near here, 24th November 1642.