Taranna Travel Guide
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Taranna, originally Norfolk Bay, is a peaceful little settlement on the road to
Port Arthur. Taranna's main claim to fame is that it was the terminus for the dreaded human railway that has the dubious distinction of being the first railway in
Australia, where convicts pushed the carriages along its 7km line. It was used to carry passengers and supplies from the security of Norfolk Bay across the narrow isthmus to Port Arthur and Long Bay. Today there is little evidence of this old railway line built to avoid the rough seas that characterised the journeys from Hobart to Port Arthur which were forced to round Cape Raoul.
Geographic Location
108km South East of
Hobart
Climate
Maritime
Summer: 11 – 18°C
Winter: 5 – 11°C
Rainfall
1180mm/year