Holiday houses, villas, apartment, hotels and more

We need your travel dates to give you the best available offers

Devonport

Devonport, the third largest city of Tasmania, is located on the north coast and captivates by its lighthhouse Mersey Bluff providing a gorgeous view on wide parts of the coast. The lighthouse was built in the year 1889 to support navigation in the permanently growing harbour. Even today the harbour of Devonport is vitally important, because there Tasmanian products are shipped to the continent.


Generally the island's visitors arrive in Devonport by ferry, because there is a big ferry port. From the harbour you can easily travel on by bus.

Tiagarra, Devonport's Aborigine cultural centre, is located on the street to the lighthouse. In this museum you can look at more than 250 native rock engravings, aged approx. 10 000 years.


The Devonport Maritime Museum is inviting for visits teaching a lot about old and modern navigation.

Amongst other things, steam locomotives are shown at Don River Railway Museum, and you can even have a trip on an older train.

You can watch chocolate production in the House of Anvers, taste chocolate and in the end buy directly ex production.

If you want to explore Devonport surroundings, you can go by rental car or take one of the shuttle buses. Several excursions are offered.

News

Melbourne Cup Timetable 2009
Melbourne Cup Timetable. The Melbourne Cup 2009 is held at 3. November 2009. Find the Timetable for all races here.
Melbourne Cup 2008
The Melbourne Cup is the most important Australian thoroughbred horse racing. In 2008 the Emirates Melbourne Cup 2008 takes place at 4.11.2008 at 15:00 local time in Melbourne.
Russian flag on Mount Kosciuszko
Russian climber Alexey Kuzminykh and his team of alpinists reached Australia's highest mountain peak, Mt. Kosciuszko at 2228 m, where the Sochi 2014 flag now flies.