BURNIE AND PENGUIN
BURNIE AND ITS neighbouring town of Penguin, 17 kilometres to the east, lie on the beautiful North West Coast of Tasmania, often called the Cradle Coast. Burnie, settled on Emu Bay, is a regional city of 19,400 people with an industrial heritage as a sea port and pulp mill town. Penguin, in contrast, is today a small and charming seaside village, belying its mid-19th-century origins as a busy timber port servicing the mainland’s gold rush. Since Burnie’s paper mill and major employer closed in 2010, diverse manufacturing industries and the growing health sector have been key employers. The town has reinvented itself as
