Kingston, Tasmania

Kingston is a township and region on the outskirts of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Nestled 12 km south of the city between and around several hills, Kingston is the council seat of its wider municipality, the Kingborough Council, and today serves as the gateway between Hobart and the D'Entrecasteaux Channel region, which meets the Derwent River nearby. It is one of the fastest growing regions in Tasmania.^[1]

Although the Kingston-Blackmans Bay region is statistically classed as a separate urban area to Hobart,^[2] Kingston is part of the Greater Hobart area.^[3] This is in part possibly due to the continuous urbanisation along the river front, its significant size, and the high number of Kingston residents working in the CBD of Hobart.

In 1804, the botanist Robert Brown visited the area. Browns River, that runs from Mount Wellington to Kingston Beach is named after him. The area was settled in 1808 by Thomas Lucas and his family, who were evacuated from Norfolk Island, and quickly the land became actively used by many pioneers who spread out to form the beginnings of Kingston’s localities today.^[4] In its early years, the area was also named after Brown, but when the population grew and a commercial district was established, Kingston was proclaimed a township in 1851.^[4]

The Kingston region comprises many suburban estates, including Blackmans Bay and Kingston Beach. While the town is almost commercially sustainable on its own, most of the population work in the city but enjoy living in a quieter environment only a short drive away.^{[citation needed]}

Kingston has close ties with the Dutch community, where after 1950 many post-war immigrants moved to an area they called ‘Little Groningen’ (today Firthside); Kingborough is sister city of Grootegast, in the Netherlands.^[5]

Kingston is home to six schools, a large sporting complex, a golf course, the headquarters of the Australian Antarctic Division, and two major shopping centres, Kingston Town Shopping Centre and Channel Court Shopping Centre. The newest shopping centre complex opened in 2008 its new name is, Kingston Plaza, which was built over the existing Coles supermarket site, comprising a new one and 15 other shops.

See also

• Kingston High School
• Calvin Christian School

References

1. ↑ "Population Distribution". Resource Planning and Development Commission. 2 May 2005. Archived from the original on 29 September 2006. Retrieved 3 December 2006. 
2. ↑ "Selected Characteristics for Urban Centres, Australia". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2001. 
3. ↑ "Tasmanian statistical boundaries". Resource Planning and Development Commission. 2 May 2005. Archived from the original on 18 September 2006. Retrieved 3 December 2006. 
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Kingborough Council - Early Development". Kingborough Council. 22 August 2006. Retrieved 3 December 2006. 
5. ↑ "Australian Sister Cities Association, Registrar of Interests". Australian Sister Cities Association. 

External links

• Kingborough Municipal Council
• Australian Antarctic Division

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