| Ansons Bay Tasmania | |||||||||||||||
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 Aerial photo from the east; the village at the top of the bay | |||||||||||||||
  Ansons Bay Location in Tasmania | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°02′08″S 148°16′05″E / 41.03556°S 148.26806°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 62 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 7264 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Break O'Day Council | ||||||||||||||
| Region | North-east | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Lyons | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Lyons | ||||||||||||||
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Ansons Bay is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Break O'Day in the North-east LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 43 kilometres (27 mi) north of the town of St Helens. The 2021 census recorded a population of 62 for the state suburb of Ansons Bay.[1]
It is both a geographical feature and a small township on the extreme north-east coast of Tasmania. The bay has notable tidal sandflats.[2] For much of the 20th century the timber industry was predominant but it is now mostly involved in fishing and tourism. The Ansons Bay postcode was changed from 7216 to 7264 in 2009 because the mail service is now via Gladstone rather than St Helens.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Ansons Bay". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ Bird, Benjamin Neil (1998), Abundance and growth of the cockle Katelysia scalarina on an intertidal sandflat in Ansons Bay, Tasmania, retrieved 26 April 2018
