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Mount Stuart is a residential suburb of Hobart (Tasmania). With its post code as "7000", it is considered as an inner suburb of Hobart, lying north of West Hobart, west of North Hobart and south of Lenah Valley. Geographically, the suburb of Mount Stuart is situated on a prominent ridge which trends east-west, running downhill from Knocklofty (a foothill of Mount Wellington) to Elizabeth Street (Main Road). The ridge is bounded by Providence Gully on the south side and Augusta Road on the north. The north face of the ridge provides commanding views up the Derwent River looking towards Mount Dromedary and across the northern suburbs of Hobart; the south face has equally commanding views overlooking the city centre and the lower reaches of the Derwent estuary.
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Mount Stuart Primary School - Administration & Entrance. (Photo by Heather Henderson 2009)
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Mount Stuart Primary School and playground. (Photos by Heather Henderson 2009)
Mount Stuart is almost entirely residential, with some 1600 homes or households. There is a substantial primary school with attached kindergarten, a central hairdressing salon, St James church and a few shops on the outskirts of the suburb, and large community hall, the Mount Stuart Memorial Hall. The suburb of Mount Stuart can be viewed in the following two images.
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Images both reproduced courtesy of TASMAP, Tasmanian Government.
The first (street atlas) image shows a layout of the Mount Stuart suburb, with most of the streets (including bus routes which have recently been changed), house sites, plus the location of the Mount Stuart Lookout. (lower LHS corner of map), Mount Stuart Park (north of the Lookout), Mt. Stuart Primary School (east of the Lookout, lower LHS of the map), and the Mt. Stuart Community Hall (both shown slightly below the centre of the map).
The second image is an aerial “orthoimage” (taken during the 2001/2002 period) providing an aerial view of Mount Stuart, which covers virtually the same area as the street layout.
Both images on this Mount Stuart Progress Association web site are included with kind permission from the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment (DPIWE) and are reproduced courtesy of TASMAP (Tasmanian Government).
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