27 Facts About Launceston Tasmania

Launceston Tasmania is fourth-largest inland city and the ninth-largest non-capital city in Australia.

Launceston Tasmania is regarded as the most liveable regional city, and was one of the most popular regional cities to move to in Australia from 2020 to 2021.

Launceston Tasmania had the first use of anaesthetic in the Southern Hemisphere, it was the first Australian city to have underground sewers, and it was the first Australian city to be lit by hydroelectricity.

Geographical area in which Launceston is located was previously occupied by the Aboriginal Tasmanian Letteremairrener people.

Ships from Launceston Tasmania carried parties of sealers to the islands of Bass Strait early in the 19th century.

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Not long beforehand, Launceston Tasmania played Victoria in Australia's first first-class cricket match at the NTCA Ground in 1851.

In 1889, Launceston was the second town in Tasmania to be declared a city, after state capital Hobart.

Since the 1960s, parts of Launceston Tasmania have been protected by a series of flood levees that reach up to 4 metres in height as large portions of the suburbs Invermay and Newstead sit within a flood plain.

Launceston Tasmania has an oceanic, temperate climate, with four distinct seasons.

In 2008, Launceston had the highest average maximum temperature out of all Tasmanian cities with 18.

Many of the buildings in the city's central business district were constructed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Launceston Tasmania is a major location of Federation style housing.

State Upper House seats that incorporate parts of Launceston Tasmania are the Electoral Divisions of Paterson, Windermere and Rosevears.

For federal elections, Launceston Tasmania falls within the Division of Bass, with the sitting member being Bridget Archer for the Liberal Party of Australia, who won the seat in the 2019 election.

The city is home to a campus of the University of Launceston Tasmania including the Australian Maritime College and has a minor minerals and manufacturing base.

Launceston Tasmania is a major hub for the regional agricultural and pastoral activities.

Launceston Tasmania has many parks throughout the city including City Park, located next to the city centre.

The Launceston Tasmania General Post Office is a heritage-listed building that dates back to the 1880s, with a clock tower added in the early twentieth century.

From 1999 to 2003, Launceston Tasmania was the site of three of the four Gone South music festivals.

Launceston Tasmania is not represented by an NRL Football Club or an AFL Football Club, though both sports have clubs playing at a local level.

In 2009 Launceston Tasmania redeveloped the city's swimming facilities which now include a modern indoor multimillion-dollar swimming centre at windmill hill, now named Launceston Tasmania Aquatic.

Launceston Tasmania was the location of the first use of anaesthesia in the Southern Hemisphere.

Launceston Tasmania is the hub for the state's medical retrieval service.

Since February 1998, Launceston has been serviced by the Tasmanian government-owned and operated public bus service Metro Tasmania.

Launceston Tasmania operated a suburban tramway system between 1911 and 1952, which consisted of 29 trams.

Regional passenger rail system operated in Tasmania, of which Launceston was a major hub; however, after many years of gradual retrenchment it was closed in July 1978.

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Launceston Tasmania's electricity is primarily generated by renewable hydro electric power plants including the Trevallyn Power Station which is supplied with water from Trevallyn Dam.

Until the 1950s when Trevallyn Power Station was built, Duck Reach supplied Launceston Tasmania with most of its power needs – it is an interpretive historic site.