Devonport
Devonport is a port city situated at the mouth of the Mersey River on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia.
Devonport is a port city situated at the mouth of the Mersey River on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. Positioned 47 kilometres (29 mi) east of Burnie and 98 kilometres (61 mi) north of Launceston, it is the busiest freight port on the island, managing over half Tasmania's imports and exports.
Devonport's supporting industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. The City of Devonport's gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated at $3.5b in 2023.
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Worth seeing in and around Devonport
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Devonport Oval
Devonport Oval is an Australian rules football, cricket and athletics stadium in Devonport, Tasmania. It is the home stadium for the Devonport Football Club in the Tasmanian State League and for the Devonport Cricket Club in the NWTCA competition.
1.6 km · sports stadium in Tasmania · Wikipedia - 02Don River Railway
The Don River Railway is a heritage railway and museum in Don, Devonport, Tasmania. It operates a service from Don to Coles Beach.
2.7 km · heritage railway and museum in Devonport, Tasmania · Wikipedia
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Getting to Devonport
- Airports
- Hobart (HBA), 208 km
- Stations
- Devonport Airport, 6.8 km
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Devonport208 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · A$32–43
- Geelong/Melbourne → Devonport389 km · quickest by road, 12h 47m · A$65–85
- Melbourne → Devonport392 km · quickest by road, 12h 42m · A$65–85
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Devonport
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Devonport. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDevonport is the Tasmanian arrival port for the Spirit of Tasmania passenger ferries from the mainland.
- Get inDuring peak periods there are additional daytime crossings, departing at 9AM and arriving the same day at 6PM, and the overnight ferry going from 9PM until 6AM.
- Get inThe ferry terminal is in East Devonport, directly across the river from the town centre.
- Get inDuring daytime (M-F 7AM-5:30PM; Sa 9AM-5PM) the little Torquay Ferry crosses the river directly from dock to city centre ($3, Feb 2019).
- Get aroundDevonport is, beside the ferry terminus, a small country town.
From Wikivoyage: Devonport, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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