Beauty Point is a tiny township originally established as the first deep water port on the Tamar River.

The town was first established as a port to service the nearby gold mine town of Beaconsfield. As the gold rush ended, it became an apple exporting centre.

The Australian Maritime College has a campus here, for fisheries and seamanship courses.

More recently, the town has also become the home of Seahorse World, a working seahorse farm and educational centre that is open to the public. The mystical seahorse has always been a source of immense attraction.

However, through fishing and habitat destruction, their numbers globally have dwindled. Seahorse World at Beauty Point, Northern Tasmania, is a unique facility designed to both conserve this creature, and to provide an excellent tourism and educational experience.

Platypus House offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to watch both live Tasmanian Platypuses and Echidnas in daylight conditions and undercover! Visitors are guaranteed to see both these spectacular egg laying mammals up close and personal actively feeding and playing during your guided tour of platypus ponds and echidna garden.

This is a tour which you will remember for years. You are also assured of many great photographic opportunities. Visitors can also enjoy viewing a film in the theatrette; browsing through the Interpretation Room; or simply enjoy a great coffee in the café overlooking the Tamar River.

The original Beauty Point wharf, where the first deep water vessels arrived, has been demolished and replaced by the Australian Maritime College which now houses over 100 residential students who study courses in seamanship and fishing.

The college has two training vessels.

The town's first wharf was established in response to the growing importance of Beaconsfield which, as a result of the gold boom, was the third largest town in Tasmania.

Close by is the Asbestos Range National Park, extending along the coast from Greens Beach to Port Sorell.

There is an easy four hour return walk to Badger Head. The park derives its name from the mineral asbestos that was mined there last century.

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