Less than a 2-hour drive south of Hobart will take you to Bruny Island Berry Farm, where you can pick your own berries or purchase pre-picked berries, berry ice cream, berry jam, and other berry-infused treats. The farm is also a beautiful spot to relax while taking in countryside views.
Just outside Hobart, Tasmania, Runnymede provides a window into life on the island in the 1840s. This National Trust-run house contains old sailing ephemera, maritime artifacts, period furniture, and historic artwork.
A short walk from the Hobart waterfront, the elegant Parliament House houses Tasmania’s Parliament. It was built in the Georgian style using locally quarried sandstone and was initially designed as a customs house. It’s one of many Hobart buildings designed by John Lee Archer and is worth visiting for its architecture alone.
Perched on a hilltop looking out over Battery Point and the River Derwent, St. George's Anglican Church is one of the neighborhood’s most prominent historic landmarks. Dating back to 1838, it’s among the oldest churches in Hobart and still holds regular services.
Among George Town's most popular attractions, the Bass and Flinders Maritime Museum focuses on the region's seafaring history. The museum is named for George Bass and Matthew Flinders, the first Europeans to circumnavigate Tasmania. Its star attraction is a replica of the ship they used to do it: the Norfolk.
The Launceston Planetarium is part of the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery (QVMAG) within Launceston’s Inveresk neighborhood. Various films and projections related to astronomy, space exploration, navigation, and natural history are projected onto the domed screens of the planetarium. Although it’s located within the broader QVMAG, visitors can see the planetarium independently if they prefer.
This island halfway between Australia and Antarctica is the only place in the world where rocks from the Earth’s mantle are exposed above sea level—a rocky formation known as the Macquarie Ridge. The remote island hosts seasonal migrations of penguins and seals, as well as some 3.5 million seabirds of 13 different species.
At the mouth of Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania, Bonnet Island is a tiny isle that only opened to tourists in 2009. As such, it’s still a relatively undiscovered location that once served as a tiny, remote outpost, home to resilient lighthouse keepers and their families.
