Derwent Bridge

Derwent Bridge is a small town in the west of the Australian state of Tasmania. It is located on the southeast corner of the Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair National Park, at the southern tip of the adjacent Walls of Jerusalem National Park. The town on the Derwent River forms the interface of Lake St. Clair ( in the north) and Lake King William in the south. There is also the Butlers Gorge Power Station.

The Lyell Highway through Derwent Bridge, heading west for 114 km, the last settlement before the Linda Valley in the West Coast Range. There used to be at the Lyell Highway on this stretch of road between the Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park and the Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair National Park, a number of individual houses, but these were demolished during the construction of the national parks.

Today you can find in Derwent Bridge not only the bridge of the same name, but also accommodation and a pub on the road.

Derwent Bridge served as the main filming location for the TV drama The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, a film about the cannibal Alexander Pearce, a British convict from the early European time in Tasmania.