Lapoinya

Lapoinya

Lapoinya

Town in Tasmania, Australia

Lapoinya (pronounced La-poin-ya) is a small agricultural centre on the north-west coast of Tasmania west of Wynyard. The name is Tasmanian Aboriginal word for "fern tree", a plant that abounds in those surviving untouched parts of the original temperate rainforest. At the 2006 census, Lapoinya had a population of 368.[2]

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History

First developed commercially around 1900, the town has been a centre for forestry, mixed agriculture (especially potato-growing), and grazing (mostly dairy cattle).

Lapoinya Post Office opened on 1 November 1912, and closed in 1970.[3]

In November 2014, it was announced the town was fighting Forestry Tasmania to attempt to stop the company logging the towns surrounding forest.[4] In January 2016, Bob Brown and three others were arrested during an anti-logging protest on a 49-hectare Forestry Tasmania coupe at Lopoinya.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Lapoinya (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. [2]
    Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Lapoinya (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
  3. [3]
    Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
  4. [4]
    "Town fights bid to harvest much-loved trees". The Mercury. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  5. [5]
    "Bob Brown charged over Tasmania logging protest". ABC News. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2017.



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