Sandy Bay Road

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Tasmania

The Sandy Bay Road is one of the main streets in Hobart, the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania. It connects the city center with the Channel Highway ( B68 ), a highway that connects Hobart with the coast in the south, on the D' Entrecasteaux Channel.

Course

It begins at the Davey Street, the southern continuation of Harrington Street and runs south along the west side of St. Davids Park and past the Battery Point. There she waves a short distance to the west leads - again south-east - a small hill down to Sandy Bay. Along the west bank of the Derwent River and past the Wrest Point Hotel Casino and at Sandy Beach Sandy Bay Road continues to the southeast by Lower Sandy Bay. Where the Alexandra Battery is above the Long Beach, it bends, following the coastline to the south. Then the road climbs to the suburb of Taroona, where it merges into the Channel Highway ( B68 ).

History

The Sandy Bay Road, was created during the colonial period in the early 19th century as the path. On maps and paintings from this time you can see the roadway clearly, as he follows the west bank of the Derwent River and then turns to the south. Soon afterwards, a wider dirt road and the beginning of the 20th century, the road was paved. When there were trams and trolleybuses in Hobart, led the way to Lower Sandy Bay along Sandy Bay Road from the city center several lines.

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4. Pp. 54 56

• Road in Tasmania
• Hobart