Bronte Park, Tasmania

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Bronte Park
Tasmania

Population:

Established:

1947

Postcode:

7140

LGA:

Central Highlands Council

State District:

Lyons

Federal Division:

Lyons

Mean Max Temp	Mean Min Temp	Rainfall
13.8 °C ^{57 °F}	3.6 °C ^{38 °F}	1,168.2 mm ^{46 in}

Bronte Park is a locality on the Marlborough Highway at the southern edge of the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania. It is approximately halfway in between Hobart and Queenstown, and is also almost exactly in the geographic dead centre of the island. Bronte Park is located close by to Bronte Lagoon, and artificial lake in the Central Highlands.

It is now primarily a tourist village catering to trout fishermen, kayakers and walkers, but was established in the 1940s as accommodation for workers on the Tasmanian Hydro Electric Commission's 'Tungatinah Scheme', 'Nive River Scheme' and other associated works in the vicinity. By the 1950s it was a bustling village over over 700 workers, with a a store, police station, post office, school, cinema, hospital, dairy and a church, but now many of the original houses and buildings have been removed, with only a few remaining now as part of the Bronte Lagoon Chalet. By 1991 the Hydro Electric Commission (now Hydro Tasmania) sold the chalets into private ownership.