The South of Tasmania: to the southernmost point and Bruny Island

Heading south along the Huon River and the d’Entrecasteaux Channel, Southport is the southernmost gazetted township in Australia. Further south is Cockle Creek, with nearby Australia’s southernmost point. Across the d’Entrecasteaux Channel is Bruny Island, both named after the same French explorer (1792). However, to the Nuenonne Aboriginal people, it was always Lunawanna-Alannah; two localities on the island carry those names. On The Neck, separating North Bruny from South Bruny Island is Truganini Lookout, honouring the local woman who was one of the last surviving pure-blood Tasmanians; she died in 1876.

The Huon River in Franklin, a small township in the south of Tasmania, between Huonville and Geeveston.

The Last of the River Steamers, moored in Franklin: SS Cartela was built in Battery Point by Purdon and Featherstone and launched in 1912.

View of the bay of Port Esperance in Dover, the southernmost town of its size in Australia, located on the western shores towards the Southern end of the d'Entrecasteaux Channel.

View of the Deephole Bay in Southport, the southernmost gazetted township in Australia.

The Southport Hotel & Caravan Park, the “Last Stop in Tassie”.

The old railway station in Ida Bay, on the road from Southport to Cockle Creek.

Pigsties Bay, Recherche, 6 kilometres north of Cockle Creek.

View of Recherche Bay from Adams Point, on the Fishers Point Track, Cockle Creek, the farthest point south one can drive in Australia.

View of Recherche Bay from Adams Point, looking northeast, on the Fishers Point Track, Cockle Creek.

An impressive bronze sculpture of a southern right whale, located at Adams Point on Recherche Bay, Cockle Creek.

View of Recherche Bay from the Fishers Point Track, Cockle Creek.

The ruins of Fishers Point Pilots Station at the end of the Fishers Point Track, on Pancake Bay, near Cockle Creek.

View northwest from Fishers Point across Pancake Bay, at the southernmost point in Australia.

View south from Fishers Point on Pancake Bay, at the southernmost point in Australia.

The Cygnet Hotel along the Channel Highway in Cygnet, a quaint town between the d'Entrecasteaux Channel and the Huon River.

St James Catholic Church and St James Catholic College in Cygnet, in the Huon Valley, south of Huonville.

View to Huon Island in the Huon River and the d'Entrecasteaux Channel, at Verona Sands.

View from Lennon Road, leading to the ferry terminal, looking north across Barnes Bay, on North Bruny Island.

View to the mainland (Tinderbox Beach) from Dennis Point, on the north point of Bruny Island.

Bales of hay, on a farm along Bruny Island Main Road, on North Bruny Island.

View from Truganini Lookout on The Neck, to South Bruny Island.

View to the southwest point of South Bruny Island from the lookout in Mount Mangana Forest Reserve.

View to Fluted Cape and Penguin Island on South Bruny's east coast, from Adventure Bay.

View of Fluted Cape on South Bruny's east coast, from the Grass Point Track, Adventure Bay.

Coal Point, on Adventure Bay, the site of coal mining operations from 1876 to c. 1891.

Cape Bruny Lighthouse, on the south-western edge of the cape on South Bruny Island, the second oldest extant lighthouse tower in Australia. It was built by convict labour, 1836-1838 and decommissioned in 1996. In the foreground the ruins of the light-keeper's house.

View of Jetty Beach, on the north coast of the Labillardiere Peninsula in the southwest of South Bruny Island.

Boulders on Lighthouse Jetty Beach, along the Labillardiere Peninsula Circuit in the southwest of South Bruny Island.

View from the Lighthouse Road to Lighthouse Bay, and Cape Bruny Lighthouse, on South Bruny Island.

View from below Cape Bruny Lighthouse, looking northwest to Courts Bay, in the far south of South Bruny Island.

View of Cloudy Bay, on the south coast of South Bruny Island.

View of Cloudy Bay, in the south of South Bruny Island.