Ulverstone

Ulverstone

      town, northern Tasmania, Australia. It lies near the mouth of the River Leven on Bass Strait. Surveyed by 1855 and named after Ulverston, Eng., in the English Lake District, it was the centre of a municipality (after 1993 within Central Coast) from 1907. Ulverstone is the centre of an agricultural, pastoral, and lumbering region and also serves as a resort and retirement town and as a residential area for Burnie (west) and Devonport (east). Located on a rail line and the Bass Highway to Launceston, 55 miles (90 km) southeast, Ulverstone has some manufacturing and craft industries. Pop. (2001) urban centre, 9,499.

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