Burnie

Burnie is a port metropolis on the north-west coast of Tasmania. When founded in 1827, Burnie became named Emu Bay but it became renamed for William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, within the early 1840s. Burnie was proclaimed a city by way of Queen Elizabeth ll on April 26, 1988. At the 2016 Australian Census Burnie had an city population of 19,385. Burnie is ruled by the City of Burnie nearby authorities vicinity.

The key industries are heavy production, forestry and farming. The Burnie port along with the forestry enterprise gives the primary supply of sales for the town. Burnie was the primary port for the west coast mines after the outlet of the Emu Bay Railway in 1897. Most enterprise in Burnie turned into primarily based across the railway and the port that served it. After the give up of the Surrey Hills and Hampshire Hills lots, the agriculture enterprise became in large part replaced by way of forestry.

The have an effect on of forestry had a prime position on Burnie's improvement within the 1900s with the founding of the pulp and paper mill via Associated Pulp and Paper Mills in 1938 and the woodchip terminal in the later a part of the century. The Burnie Paper Mill closed in 2010 after failing to comfortable a customer.