Crotty, Tasmania

Crotty
Tasmania
Crotty is located in Tasmania
Crotty
Crotty
Location in Tasmania
Coordinates42°11′S 145°37′E / 42.183°S 145.617°E / -42.183; 145.617
Abolishedcirca 1903[1][2]

Crotty is the site of a former gazetted town in Western Tasmania, Australia. The town was on the southern bank of the King River, on the eastern lower slopes of Mount Jukes, below the West Coast Range. The locality was formerly named King River[3]

  1. ^ "Crotty Dam" (PDF). Heritage Dams Project. Engineers Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  2. ^ Crotty was abandoned in 1903. For the following 80 years, various structures and features of the town were removed, right up to the time of damming of the lower part of the former site by Lake Burbury
  3. ^ Crotty (Late King River) in 1905 edition of The Tasmania post office directory, H. Wise & Co, 1891, retrieved 10 June 2018