Gormanston (AU-TAS)

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Gormanston is a town in Tasmania on the slopes of Mount Owen, above the town of Queenstown in Tasmania's West Coast. At the 2016 Census Gormanston had a population of 17. It lies at the shoulder between Mount Lyell and Mount Owen and is south or "up the hill" from an equally abandoned community, the remains of the townsite of Linda which is at the northern side of the Linda Valley. Gormanston was built as the company town for the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations at the Iron Blow open cut copper mine and later also became the location of the short lived terminus of the North Mount Lyell Railway at Gormanston railway station before it closed.

It may have been named in honour of Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston, Governor of Tasmania 1893–1900. Mount Lyell Post Office opened on 1 January 1891, was renamed Gormanston in 1894 and closed in 1979. It is the only remaining townsite that lies in effect 'in' the West Coast Range.

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