Stanley Attractions

Highfield Historic Site (Attraction)
Scenic Drive, Stanley, Tasmania 7331, Australia

Highfield Historic Site offers a historically accurate vision of a gentleman's home and farm of the 1830s. It sits on a hillside overlooking the lands the manager would have once controlled, with views across to Stanley, the Nut and Bass Strait beyond. The house is being restored over time and its elegant Italianate design, convict barracks, barns, stables, and a chapel were once surrounded by a l ...

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Joe Lyons Cottage (Attraction)
14 Alexander Street, Stanley, Tasmania 7331, Australia

Joseph Aloysius Lyons was born in this tiny cottage in Stanley in 1879. He was a teacher before joining the Workers' Political League and this led him into politics. By 1914 he was deputy leader of the Labor Party. In 1923 he was elected State Premier. The Party lost power in 1928 but Lyons headed to Canberra, where he held a number of offices before resigning from the ministry in 1931. Two mont ...

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Nut - The (Attraction)
Browns Road, Stanley, Tasmania 7331, Australia

The historic village of Stanley, in far north-west Tasmania, is nestled at the base of The Nut, a sheer-sided bluff - all that remains of an ancient volcanic plug. A walking track climbs to the summit of The Nut, or you can take the chairlift, with its spectacular views across Bass Strait beaches and over the town. There is accommodation and an excellent campground in Stanley, and the town is a go ...

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Nut Chairlift - The (Attraction)
Browns Road, Stanley, Tasmania 7331, Australia

The Nut, rising 152 metres from the sea, dominates the headland that the fishing village of Stanley shelters behind. No exertion is necessary when the chairlift takes you to the top for a seagulls view of the historic town and the east and west along the coast. The chairlift has 20 double seats and the trip takes about five minutes each way. You can get off at the summit and explore or take a non ...

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Stanley Artworks Studio Gallery (Attraction)
15 Church Street, Stanley, Tasmania 7331, Australia

Stanley Artworks is a contemporary commercial art gallery in Tasmania's north west. The Gallery is in central Stanley - a classified historic town and the last major township on the north west coast. Established in 1995 by wood designer/makers, Toby Muir Wilson and Mark Bishop, Stanley Artworks offers distinctive contemporary Tasmanian art and craft. Stanley Artworks represents more than 50 Tasm ...

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Stanley Discovery Museum and Geneology Centre (Attraction)
Church Street, Stanley, Tasmania 7331, Australia

The Discovery Centre contains a wealth of information relating to the history of the Stanley district and many items of interest collected in the area. Some of the items on display include: Antique bric-a-brac, Photographic display, numerous household and farming utensils of settlement days, 1850 wedding gown, marine curios, relics from ships that once sailed in the area. bowsprit of ship Kerma ...

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Stanley Golf Club (Attraction)
32 Marine Esplanade, Stanley, Tasmania 7331, Australia

The Stanley Golf Club is a nine-hole coastal course at Stanley, north west Tasmania. Stanley is a classified historic town, 20 minutes' north east of Smithton (22 kilometres/14 miles) and 90 minutes' west of Devonport (127 kilometres/79 miles). A typical links-style course, the Stanley Golf Club has a relatively flat layout with watered greens and tees. The course is set among san ...

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Stanley Seaquarium (Attraction)
Fishermans Dock, Stanley, Tasmania 7331, Australia

Situated on Fisherman's Dock at the foot of the Nut, Stanley Seaquarium provides an ideal outing for the whole family. A wide variety of Tasmanian sea life are viewed at close range from above and below water level, so close that you can almost touch them. The Rock Pool provides encounters and observation of the various fish, urchins, hermit crabs, sea-stars and other normally difficult to see cr ...

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Touchwood Craft Gallery and Coffee Shop (Attraction)
31 Church Street, Stanley, Tasmania 7331, Australia

The Touchwood Craft Gallery is located at Stanley, north-west Tasmania. Stanley is an hour's drive north-west of Burnie (78 kilometres/49 miles) and 90 minutes from Devonport (127 kilometres/79 miles). The Touchwood Craft Gallery specialises in fine Tasmanian artworks. You can browse the Gallery's collection of hand-made pottery, blown glass, pewter, jewellery and fine woodcraft m ...

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