page_title: Macquarie Harbour
section_title: Named features
hierarchical_section_title: Macquarie Harbour / Named features
caption_attribution_description: Fishing in Macquarie Harbour (Tasmania, Australia).
context_page_description: Macquarie Harbour is a large, shallow, inlet, located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. It is approximately 315 sq.km, and has an average depth of 15m, with deeper places up to 50m. The inlet is navigable by shallow-draft vessels. The main channel is kept clear by the presence of a rock wall on the outside of the channel's curve. This man-made wall prevents erosion and keeps the channel deep and narrow, rather than allowing the channel to become wide and shallow. A reported Aboriginal name for the harbour is Parralaongatek.
  The harbour was named in honour of Scottish Major General Lachlan Macquarie, the fifth Colonial Governor of New South Wales.
context_section_description: Birchs Inlet - at south west end of harbour
  Farm Cove - at south east side
  Gould Point - adjacent to Farm Cove
  Hell's Gates - mouth at north west end of harbour
  Kelly Basin - port/town at southern end of harbour - see also Pillinger
  Kelly Channel - at entrance to harbour
  Lettes Bay - between Regatta Point and King River mouth
  Liberty Point - on mid western shore
  Long Bay - south of Regatta Point
  Pillinger - name of abandoned townsite in Kelly Basin
  Pine Cove - just south of the King River Mouth
  Regatta Point - eastern side of Risby Cove
  Risby Cove - water between Strahan Harbour and Regatta Point
  Rum Point - on western shore south of Sarah Island
  Sophia Point - on mid-eastern shore
  Strahan Harbour - from Strahan Point parallel to 'The Esplanade'
  Swan Basin - near Hell's Gates
caption: Salmon farm in Macquarie Harbour.
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