Boobyalla

Boobyalla
Tasmania
Boobyalla is in the centre of the coast in this aerial photo
Boobyalla is located in Tasmania
Boobyalla
Boobyalla
Coordinates40°52′55″S 147°53′20″E / 40.8819°S 147.8889°E / -40.8819; 147.8889
Population0 (?)[citation needed]
Postcode(s)7264
LGA(s)Dorset Council
State electorate(s)Bass
Federal division(s)Bass

Boobyalla was a shipping port on the north-east coast of Tasmania, Australia during the latter half of the nineteenth century.[1] Coastal vessels ran regularly to the port from other Tasmanian ports, carting tin from the mines around nearby Mount Cameron.[2]

Plan of Boobyalla in the early 1900s

Boobyalla Post Office opened on 29 July 1875 and closed in 1927.[3]

  1. ^ Boobyalla Tin Mine - Historical Mining locality in Tasmania Archived 25 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Tasmania's North-East" by Hon A.W. Loone, 1981, Regal Press, Launceston, p65
  3. ^ Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 16 June 2012.