Lapoinya

Lapoinya Tasmania
Lapoinya
Coordinates	41°02′S 145°34′E
Population	143 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)	7325
LGA(s)	Waratah-Wynyard Council
State electorate(s)	Braddon
Federal division(s)	Braddon
Localities around Lapoinya: Myalla Sisters Creek Moorleah Milabena Lapoinya Moorleah Meunna Preolenna Preolenna

Lapoinya (pronounced La-poin-ya) is a small agricultural centre on the north-west coast of Tasmania west of Wynyard. The name is Tasmanian Aboriginal word for "fern tree", a plant that abounds in those surviving untouched parts of the original temperate rainforest. At the 2006 census, Lapoinya had a population of 368.[2]

History

First developed commercially around 1900, the town has been a centre for forestry, mixed agriculture (especially potato-growing), and grazing (mostly dairy cattle).

Lapoinya Post Office opened on 1 November 1912, and closed in 1970.[3]

In November 2014, it was announced the town was fighting Forestry Tasmania to attempt to stop the company logging the towns surrounding forest.[4] In January 2016, Bob Brown and three others were arrested during an anti-logging protest on a 49-hectare Forestry Tasmania coupe at Lopoinya.[5]

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Lapoinya (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Lapoinya (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
3. Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
4. "Town fights bid to harvest much-loved trees". The Mercury. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
5. "Bob Brown charged over Tasmania logging protest". ABC News. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2017.