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The breakwater lay on the west side of the entrance. In the 1905 cartographic map of the Heads (also designated 'West Coast
Entrance to Macquarie Harbour'), evidence of a proposed or planned 'East Breakwater' is shown, with the existing named as the 'West Breakwater' the name 'West Breakwater' still
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was exporting its mineral products by sea. The heads were notoriously difficult to navigate in good weather, and even more difficult in bad weather.
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carried on in later surveys in 1930 and the 1964 map, but with no sign of the planned 'East
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Former tramway near Cape Sorell, mouth of
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The breakwater was regularly in need of maintenance The maps for
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as it was also known show the breakwater's position clearly
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area to allow for shipping of limited tonnage to serve
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Tasmania - West Coast
Entrance to Macquarie Harbour
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Tasmania - West Coast
Entrance to Macquarie Harbour
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Tasmania - West Coast
Entrance to Macquarie Harbour
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243:Great Britain. Hydrographic Department (1980),
219:Great Britain. Hydrographic Department (1964),
167:Great Britain. Hydrographic Department (1905),
97:- operating between October 1900 and May 1927
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289:Railways on the West Coast of Tasmania
49:Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company
136:- operating between 1904 and May 1927
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31:to sustain a reasonable depth to the
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192:"Macquarie Heads Breakwater Damaged"
117:- operating between 19 June and 1946
336:1946 disestablishments in Australia
154:"Libraries Tasmania - PH30-1-2481"
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331:1900 establishments in Australia
306:Closed railway lines in Tasmania
122:Macquarie Heads (Langtry Street)
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326:Railway lines closed in 1946
321:Railway lines opened in 1900
311:Mining railways in Australia
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21:Macquarie Heads Breakwater
101:Pilot Beach (Bay Street)
273:Lighthouses of Tasmania
134:Wellington Head Quarry
84:Cape Sorell Lighthouse
82:headland between the
23:was a project of the
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275:. SeaSide Lights.
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128:Town Wharf
58:Breakwater
47:while the
283:See also
204:29 June
39:of the
25:Strahan
253:13 May
229:13 May
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179:2016
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