Wellington Park is a rural locality in the local government areas of Derwent Valley, Hobart, Glenorchy, Huon Valley and Kingborough in the South-east and Hobart regions of Tasmania. It is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of the Hobart CBD.
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Mount Wellington, also known as kunanyi in palawa kani and gazetted as kunanyi / Mount Wellington, is a mountain in the south-east of Tasmania, Australia. It is the summit of the Wellington Range and is within Wellington Park reserve. Hobart, Tasmania's capital city, is located at the foot of the mountain.
The mountain rises 1,271 metres above sea level and is sometimes covered by snow, even in summer, and the lower slopes are thickly forested, but crisscrossed by many walking tracks and a few fire trails. There is also a sealed narrow road to the summit, about 22 kilometres from Hobart central business district. An enclosed lookout near the summit has views of the city below and to the east, the Derwent estuary, and also glimpses of the World Heritage Area nearly 100 kilometres west. From Hobart, the most distinctive feature of Mount Wellington is the cliff of dolerite columns known as the Organ Pipes.
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The Division of Denison was an Australian electoral division in Tasmania, before being replaced by the Division of Clark as part of a 2016–17 redistribution.
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The electoral division of Clark, formerly known as the electoral division of Denison is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, it is located in Hobart on the western shore of the River Derwent and includes the suburbs below Mount Wellington. Clark is named after Andrew Inglis Clark, a Tasmanian jurist who was the principal author of the Australian Constitution. The electorate shares its name and boundaries with the federal division of Clark.
The electorate was renamed from the electoral division of Denison in September 2018. Denison was named after Sir William Denison, who was Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land, and Governor of New South Wales. The renaming of the electorate to Clark was in line with the renaming of the federal division of Denison to Clark.
Clark and the other House of Assembly electoral divisions are each represented by seven members elected under the Hare-Clark electoral system.
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The Division of Clark is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Tasmania, first contested at the 2019 federal election.
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Fern Tree is a rural / residential locality in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The locality is about 9 kilometres south-west of the Hobart central business district. The 2021 census recorded a population of 763 for the state suburb of Fern Tree.
It is an outlying suburb of Hobart. The name Fern Tree is adapted from the common name of the plant Dicksonia antarctica, which grows abundantly in the area. Set beneath Mount Wellington, whose summit is at 1270 metres above sea level.
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Wellington Park is a confirmed suburb/locality. Both the 2016 census and 2021 census determined a population of nil for the state suburb of Wellington Park.
Geography
Almost all of the boundaries consist of survey lines. Mount Wellington is within the locality.
Road infrastructure
The C616 route (Pinnacle Road) enters from the east and follows a winding route to the summit of Mount Wellington, where it ends.