Burnie, Tasmania
Burnie, Tasmania
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 A view of Burnie CBD and ports from a hillside suburb |
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 Burnie
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| Population: | 19,160 |
| Coordinates: | 41°03′49″S 145°53′31″E / 41.06361°S 145.89194°ECoordinates: 41°03′49″S 145°53′31″E / 41.06361°S 145.89194°E |
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AEST (UTC+10)
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| LGA: | City of Burnie |
| State District: | Braddon |
| Federal Division: | Braddon |
Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, originally settled in 1827 as Emu Bay. The town was renamed for William Burnie—a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company—in the early 1840s. The city boundary usually includes the outer town of Somerset. Burnie is governed by the City of Burnie Local Government Area.
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Economy
Key Industries: Heavy machinery manufacturing; forestry; farming. The Burnie port is the fifth largest container port in Australia;
Facilities and Education
Tasmania's third largest hospital, North West Regional Hospital, is located on Brickport Road in Burnie. It provides both in and outpatient services for general medicine, general surgery, orthopaedics and paediatrics.
Burnie has a central business district with several national retailers, including K-Mart, Coles, Woolworths and Target, and many secondary speciality retailers.
Just outside the CBD there are other major retailers such as; Harvey Norman Superstore, Spotlight, Godfreys and SuperCheap Auto.
Other amenities include multi-function "Burnie Arts and Function Centre" (formerly known as the Civic Centre), post office, police station, supreme court, public and private hospital, as well as numerous sporting and social organisations.
Burnie is also home to the Cradle Coast campus of the University of Tasmania, and campuses of the Tasmanian Polytechnic and the Tasmanian Academy. The University of Tasmanian campus includes the Cuthbertson Research Laboratores run by the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research.
Transport
Burnie Airport is located in the adjacent town of Wynyard, a 20 minute drive from the City of Burnie.
Burnie Port is Tasmania's largest general cargo port and Australia's fifth largest container port. It is the nearest Tasmanian port to Melbourne and the Australian mainland.
Burnie is connected with Devonport via the four lane Bass Highway and a rail link which is used for freight purposes. Burnie is also connected to the west coast of Tasmania by the Murchison Highway.
Bus service Metro Tasmania provides transport around the city and its suburbs., Redline Coaches provides daily coach services to several towns and to the city of Hobart.
Climate
The average temperature in summer ranges from 12.5 to 21 °C with drier days as warm as 30 °C, with around 16 hours of sunlight per day. In winter, temperature ranges from 6 to 13 °C, and only 8 hours of sunlight. Relative humidity averages over 60% for the year in the afternoon.
Burnie averages 994 mm of rainfall per year. Most of the rain is during the cooler months from May to October. The summer months bring constant daily sunshine and only occasional rainfall with temperatures up to 30 °C on the warmest and driest days. Nearly every day from January to March has a maximum temperature of 20–25 °C.
| Climate data for Burnie | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 21.0 (69.8) |
21.2 (70.2) |
20.0 (68) |
17.7 (63.9) |
15.3 (59.5) |
13.4 (56.1) |
12.7 (54.9) |
13.1 (55.6) |
14.3 (57.7) |
15.9 (60.6) |
17.7 (63.9) |
19.4 (66.9) |
16.8 (62.2) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 12.6 (54.7) |
13.2 (55.8) |
12.0 (53.6) |
9.9 (49.8) |
8.3 (46.9) |
6.7 (44.1) |
5.9 (42.6) |
6.1 (43) |
6.8 (44.2) |
8.0 (46.4) |
9.6 (49.3) |
11.1 (52) |
9.2 (48.6) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 43.2 (1.701) |
45.5 (1.791) |
49.5 (1.949) |
74.8 (2.945) |
94.9 (3.736) |
103.6 (4.079) |
125.2 (4.929) |
110.5 (4.35) |
87.4 (3.441) |
87.5 (3.445) |
68.0 (2.677) |
65.1 (2.563) |
956.2 (37.646) |
| Source: Bureau of Meteorology | |||||||||||||
Sport
Australian rules football is popular in Burnie. The city's team is the Burnie Dockers Football Club in the Tasmanian State League.
Rugby union is also played in Burnie. The local club is the Burnie Rugby Union Club. They are the current Tasmanian Rugby Union Statewide Division Two Premiers and were promoted to the Statewide First Division for the 2009 season. Their nickname is "The Mighty Emus". The club has been in existence since 1953 but at the end of the 1980s, were forced into a temporary absence from all competitions and relinquishing their place in the state-wide First Division.[1] Their home ground is McKenna Park Sporting Complex located on 3 Mile Line.
soccer is also represented on the north coast with Burnie United FC having four teams compete in the northern premier league, the womens team,under 18 team, reserve team and division one team. recently this year they have entered two youth side in the under 16 and under 14 northern league
Media
The Advocate is the region's newspaper, its mailroom is located in Burnie while press operations were ceased in mid-2008 and relocated to Launceston.
Burnie has access to the ABC, SBS, WIN and Southern Cross television stations. The fifth channel, Tasmanian Digital Television, has recently[when?] started transmitting from the tower at Round Hill, east of the suburb of South Burnie.
There is one commercial radio station, 7BU at 558 kHz on the medium-wave band. Many Melbourne radio stations can be received in Burnie.
A newspaper also runs from its headquarters located in the city. The Advocate has operated in the city since 1890 and covers the west and north-west of Tasmania.
The town of burnie also gained some notability after a dispute with Burnie Burns From roosterteeth.com, as he had registered the domain name www.Burnie.com, and having the page show constant profanity in the adjective towards Burnie, ( the man not the town ) and the town threatening a law suit against the web site. This was notably mentioned during the websites very popular webcast DRUNK TANK.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Burnie-Somerset (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=UCL602000&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved {{{accessdate}}}.
- ^ Metro Tasmania website
- ^ Redline Coaches website
- ^ "Climate Data". BoM. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_091009.shtml. Retrieved 2 August 2008.
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