Fingal Travel Guide
Fingal accommodation, Fingal activities and attractions, Fingal maps, transportation to and around Fingal - the ALL NEW Jasons Fingal Destination Travel Guide is your complete visitor guide for Fingal.
Like most towns in this part of
Tasmania, Fingal was established as a convict station, but is more famous as the location of the first payable gold in Tasmania. Today it is regarded as the headquarters of the state's coal industry. The traditional art of coal shovelling has been preserved here with the World Coal Shovelling Championships held each March at the Fingal Festival. The beauty of the surrounding district has been an inspiration to writers and poets, and the town is believed to have been named after Fingal's Cave in the Hebrides.
Geographic Location
111km South-east of
Launceston, 24km south-west of
St Marys