WYNYARD, TASMANIA

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A coastal fishing port at the mouth of the Inglis River, which services a dairying, vegetable growing and mixed farming district. It is home to a number of food packing/processing factories. Nearby Table Cape was sighted by explorers George Bass and Matthew Flinders in 1798, but the district was not settled by white farmers until the 1940s. First called Table Cape, then Ramsay, its present name of the settlement was officially adopted in 1861 when the town was proclaimed.

Points of Interest: Table Cape (170 metres above sea level); Fossil Bluff; Detention Falls; Rocky Cape National Park;  Table Cape Lighthouse (1888); Aboriginal sites in caves (32 km west). Wonders of Wynyard Exhibition Centre, an exhibition of local "wonders", features local resident Francis Ransley's collection of veteran motor cars, including a 1903 Model A Ford, one of only two in existence and the equal oldest Ford in the world.

How to get there: Bass Highway, 163 km north west of Launceston via Devonport and Burnie.