| Cockle Creek Tasmania | |
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| Coordinates | 43°34′55″S 146°53′25″E / 43.58194°S 146.89028°E |
| Location | 148 km (92 mi) SSW of Hobart |
| LGA(s) | Huon Valley Council |
| State electorate(s) | Franklin |
| Federal division(s) | Franklin |
Cockle Creek is the farthest point south one can drive in Australia.[1] It is located on Recherche Bay on the edge of the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
There are no shops or other facilities in the settlement, but a campground is located in the National Park with public toilets and a public phone. The National Park Ranger's office is only staffed intermittently. Main activities are camping, fishing, birdwatching and bushwalking.
Arts Tasmania with the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service offers an artists residency program at Cockle Creek "for an individual or collaboration of practising artists working in any art form to develop their work in response to the natural environment of Tasmania."[2]
- ^ "Cockle Creek". Discover Tasmania. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ Cockle Creek Residency Archived 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Arts Tasmania website. Accessed 19 October 2008