Touring Sandy Bay
The district Sandy Bay of in Hobart (Tasmania) with it's 11,334 residents Sandy Bay is a subburb located in Australia about 535 mi south of Canberra, the country's capital place.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 17°C / 63 °F
Morning Temperature | 14°C / 58 °F |
Evening Temperature | 16°C / 61 °F |
Night Temperature | 13°C / 56 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 11% |
Air Humidity | 88% |
Air Pressure | 1004 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 6 km/h (4 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Moderate rain |
Thursday, 28th of November 2024
12°C (54 °F)
11°C (52 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Friday, 29th of November 2024
16°C (60 °F)
12°C (54 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Saturday, 30th of November 2024
13°C (56 °F)
13°C (56 °F)
Moderate rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Islington Hotel
ibis Styles Hobart
Grosvenor Court Apartments Hobart
Mayfair Plaza Motel
BEST WESTERN HOBART
Apartment on King
Hadley's Orient Hotel
Clydesdale Manor
St Ives Apartments
RACV/RACT Hobart Apartment Hotel
Videos from this area
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Hobart, Tasmania
Scenes from the city of Hobart, Australia. Hobart is the capital city of Tasmania, Australia.
Convict City Rollers vs Murder City Roller Girls
CCR vs MCRG in Hobart, Tasmania @ Aurora Stadium. To see more Derby action, Subscribe and check out my other videos. https://www.facebook.com/greg.mayne https://twitter.com/#!/Future_Ninja.
Arthur Circus, Battery Point, Hobart Australia Steadiam Walk
Steadicam walk around the famous and historical "The Circus". Located in the suburt of Battery Point in Hobart The Circus is renowned for its early settler architecture. Battery Point is a...
Bright Green Sparks - Hobart Bike Kitchen
Sustainable Living Tasmania has produced the Bright Green Sparks series of short videos showcasing inspiring projects and community initiatives that will hopefully bring sustainability alive...
Hail and heavy rain in Hobart, Tasmania 16th December, 2014
I work in an underground office, but I suddenly heard the sound of rain and thunder. Something that has never happened in the 12 years I have worked in this office. I went above ground to find...
Beat Boxing on the streets of Hobart with Jukey Jukebox
Here's our first video for the year, we met up with James from the UK while he was busking in Salamanca. After seeing him perform we decided to have some fun and make a video for him. We shot...
Term two holidays
fourteen days to pack in as much action as possible with the limited resources available! Camping illegally on the beach, snowboarding at Ben Lomond NP, cliff jumping at black mans bay, camping...
Mini Board Rampage
Mini skateboards on sale in Kmart lead to two intense days of nothing but skating.. School was missed, cameras were broken, skin was lost, and over $200 was spent.
Tenebrarum: The Curse Of Darkness - Gameplay video
More details at: http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/student-proj-sby/alpha/ http://www.utas.edu.au Tenebrarum: The Curse of Darkness is an immersive 2.5D side-scrolling platform game that explores...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a medium-sized public Australian university based in Tasmania, Australia. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia. UTAS is a sandstone university and is a member of the international Association of Commonwealth Universities. UTAS offers various undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of disciplines.
Salamanca Place
Salamanca Place is a precinct of Hobart, the capital city of the state of Tasmania. Salamanca Place itself consists of rows of sandstone buildings, formerly warehouses for the port of Hobart Town that have since been converted into restaurants, galleries, craft shops and offices. It was named after the victory in 1812 of the Duke of Wellington in the Battle of Salamanca in the Spanish province of Salamanca. It was previously called "The Cottage Green".
Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Sandy Bay is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located immediately south of the central business district, and adjoins the suburb of Battery Point, and has a long frontage to the River Derwent. The suburb has many large homes, and is known as one of the city's prestigious areas. In the more southern areas of Sandy Bay, close to the water and also high on the slopes of Mt Nelson, are some of Tasmania's most expensive real estate.
Parliament of Tasmania
The Parliament of Tasmania consists of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Monarch represented by the Governor of Tasmania. The leader of the party or coalition with the most seats in the House of Assembly is invited by the Governor of Tasmania to form government. The head of the government is the Premier of Tasmania.
Sullivans Cove
Sullivans Cove is on the River Derwent adjacent to the Hobart CBD in Tasmania. It was the site of initial European settlement in the area.
Edge Radio
Edge Radio is a community radio station situated in the Australian city of Hobart. It is a youth oriented station, with most of its presenters under the age of thirty. Edge Radio focuses on local music, running a Tasmanian music show weekly. The studio is located in the University of Tasmania's Hobart campus. It also broadcasts some of the best of Australian music and is known for being on the forefront of presenting new Tasmanian and Australian music to audiences.
St. John Fisher College (University of Tasmania)
St John Fisher College at the University of Tasmania was established in 1963 and built by the Catholic Church and its community. The college was named after 16th century scholar St John Fisher and provides accommodation for around 100 students. It is located in Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia, on campus at the University of Tasmania. The smallest of the three residential colleges at the University of Tasmania.
The Hutchins School
The Hutchins School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in Sandy Bay, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Hutchins is the only K-12 boys' school in the state of Tasmania, and with a student population of approximately 1000, including 50 boarders, it is also one of the largest private schools in the state. Established in 1846, the school is one of the oldest continually running schools in Australia.
South Hobart, Tasmania
South Hobart is one of Hobart's southern suburbs. It is bound by Dynnyrne, Fern Tree, West Hobart and the CBD.
Supreme Court of Tasmania
The Supreme Court of Tasmania is the highest State court in the Australian State of Tasmania. In the Australian court hierarchy, the Supreme Court of Tasmania is in the middle level, and is able to both receive appeals from lower courts, and able to be appealed from. The ordinary sittings of the Court occur in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie in Tasmania. The Court's Appeal division sits only in Hobart.
Battery Point, Tasmania
Battery Point is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is immediately south of the Central business district. It is in the local government area of City of Hobart. Battery Point is named after the battery of guns which were established on the point in 1818 as part of the Hobart coastal defences. The battery no longer exists. The area is generally known as one of the city's more prestigious suburbs, with many large and extravagant homes and apartment blocks.
St Michael's Collegiate School
St Michael's Collegiate School, colloquially known as "Collegiate", is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Established in 1892 by the Sisters of the Church, the school currently enrols approximately 900 students from Early Learning to year 12, including up to 50 boarders in years 5 to 12.
Macquarie Street, Hobart
Macquarie Street is one of the main streets of the central business district of the city of Hobart, capital of Tasmania, Australia. It is part of the A6, technically making it part of the Huon Highway. It also forms a One-way couplet with Davey Street in the opposite direction. The street starts at its junction with the Eastern Outlet, the Brooker Highway and Davey Street, near the historic Royal Engineers Building.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Australia located in Hobart and covering Tasmania, Australia. Immediately subject to the Holy See, the area covered was initially administered by the Vicariate Apostolic of New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land. In 1842, the Vicariate Apostolic of Hobart was erected; elevated as a Diocese a few weeks later; and as an Archdiocese in 1888.
St David's Cathedral, Hobart
The Cathedral Church of St David in Hobart is the principal Anglican church in Tasmania. The dean (as of March 2009) is the Very Reverend Richard Humphrey. Consecrated in 1874, St David's is the Bishop of Tasmania's principal place of teaching. It is a cathedral because it is the place where the bishop's cathedra or seat is placed. It is also the venue for great occasions of diocese, city and state.
Jane Franklin Hall
Jane Franklin Hall in South Hobart, Tasmania, is a non-denominational residential college of the University of Tasmania. Familiarly referred to as ‘Jane’, it was founded by the Tasmanian Council of Churches in 1950 as a residential college for women before becoming co-educational in 1973. Jane is a non-denominational Christian institution unobtrusively supported by chaplains of various Christian faiths.
Dynnyrne, Tasmania
Dynnyrne is a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania. It is situated in the hills south-west of the city, surrounded by the suburbs of Sandy Bay, South Hobart and Tolmans Hill. Dynnyrne is Tasmania's second most affluent suburb according to documents released by the Australian Taxation Office. The postal code for Dynnyrne is 7005 which is shared with Sandy Bay. Many houses situated in Dynnyrne were constructed in the 1990s. Many parts of Dynnyrne have extensive views over the Derwent River.
Hobart Real Tennis Club
The Hobart Real Tennis Club is one of the oldest sporting clubs in the Southern hemisphere, having been founded in 1875. The court is located at 45 Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania. It is the oldest real tennis club in Australia and one of the oldest existing clubs in the real tennis world.
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Hobart
The Queen Alexandra Hospital for Women was an Australian hospital established at Hobart, Tasmania in 1905 to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1902 on a site in Hampden Road, Battery Point. The hospital was primarily designed to care for women who were pregnant, in need of natal and neonatal care, and as a training hospital for midwives and nurses.
Hobart coastal defences
The Hobart coastal defences are a network of now defunct coastal batteries, some of which are inter-linked with tunnels, that were designed and built by British colonial authorities in the nineteenth century to protect the city of Hobart, Tasmania, from attack by enemy warships. During the nineteenth century, the port of Hobart Town was a vital re-supply stop for international shipping and trade, and therefore a major freight hub for the British Empire.
Print Radio Tasmania
Print Radio Tasmania (callsign 7RPH) is a radio station based in Hobart, Tasmania. It is a reading and information service for those persons unable to read or easily access information in print. The station is run and operated by volunteers. Programs broadcast range from live reading of local and national newspapers to magazine and serialised book readings. Print Radio Tasmania was the first RPH station to go on-air in Australia on 26 June 1982, originally broadcasting on 1620AM.
Mount Carmel College, Sandy Bay
Mount Carmel College is an Independent Catholic school for girls, located in Sandy Bay, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It was established in 1942 by the Sisters of Charity. The school currently caters for approximately 540 students from Kindergarten to Year 10. Boys are enrolled from Kindergarten to Year 2, and Girls from Kindergarten to Year 10.
Queenborough Oval
Queenborough Oval is the home headquarters of the Hutchins Old Boys Football Club and the South Hobart/Sandy Bay Cricket Club. The ground is a former Tasmanian Football League venue, being the former home of the Sandy Bay Football Club (now defunct) from 1945 to 1997. It is located on the corner of Nelson Road and Peel Street Sandy Bay, 5 kilometres South of the Hobart CBD.
Parliament Square, Hobart
"Parliament Square" is the name given to the upcoming redevelopment of the block directly behind Parliament House in Hobart, Tasmania. The site is in close proximity to the waterfront and is bounded by Davey Street to the north, Murray Street to the east, Salamanca Place to the west and Parliament House to the south. The block has an approximate area of 7,322 m².
Salamanca Market
Salamanca Market is a street market in Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania. It is a major tourist attraction in Tasmania, and is held on Saturdays between 8.00am and 3.00pm.