Burnie Regional Museum (Federation Street)
Pioneer-village museum recreating an early 20th-century Burnie street, with a general store, saddler, blacksmith, printer, photographer and dentist, each based on a real local business.
Burnie, Australia
Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, built around a busy deep-water cargo port and the gateway to the region's coast and wilderness. More about Burnie →
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Ship schedule by month
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Cruise Ships in Burnie
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The crowd calendar shows every ship and how busy the port is, hour by hour, plus the quietest and busiest days for the next 90 days.
Where is the Burnie cruise port?
Cruise ships dock in the Port of Burnie, a working deep-water cargo port about 2 km from the city centre. Because it is a working port, passengers cannot walk out; the council provides free shuttles to the Burnie Discovery Hub and the Burnie Waterfront.
Cruise port
Getting to the Burnie cruise port
Makers' Workshop → Port of Burnie
2.9 km · 6–8 min by car
The Makers' Workshop on the city waterfront is 2.9 km by road from the port, about 6-8 minutes.
Typical prices, approximate. Fares change with demand, traffic and time of day.
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Taxi
Variesper vehicle
6–8 min
Metered; fare not published.
Typical prices, approximate. Fares change with demand, traffic and time of day.
Driving to the port
Burnie is a working port, so passengers cannot walk out. The council provides free shuttles to the Burnie Discovery Hub and the Burnie Waterfront. Tasmanian taxis are metered; no official fares are published.
Destination
About Burnie
Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, built around a busy deep-water cargo port and the gateway to the region's coast and wilderness. In town, the Burnie Regional Museum recreates a Federation-era street of shops and workshops, the Makers' Workshop stands on the waterfront, and Fern Glade Reserve on the Emu River is a good place to spot platypus. Cruise ships dock in the working port, about 2 km from the city centre, and on cruise days the council runs free shuttles to its Discovery Hub and to the waterfront. Cradle Mountain, one of Australia's best-known national parks, is a full-day trip inland.
- Climate
- Cool, temperate maritime climate with mild summers and chilly, wet winters. Average daily highs range from 12.9C in July to 21.9C in January, and lows from 3.5C in July to 11.7C in February. Rain totals 950 mm a year, wettest from May to October and heaviest in July (123.2 mm); February is the driest month (40.1 mm). December averages a high of 20.0C and a low of 9.8C. Figures are for Wynyard, about 17 km west.
- Time zone
- Australian Eastern Time
- Currency
- Australian Dollar (AUD)
Things to Do in Burnie
Fern Glade Reserve
Riverside reserve about 3.9 km from the city centre, with long walks along the banks of the Emu River and the chance to see platypus surfacing.
Makers' Workshop
The waterfront Makers' Workshop building, now the Makers Tech Hub, on the shuttle route along the Burnie Waterfront. Its creative paper tours have moved to Wynyard, further west along the coast.
Cradle Mountain
Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, about 1 hour 40 minutes inland. A parks pass is required, and a shuttle runs from the visitor centre to Dove Lake, where the 6 km Dove Lake circuit takes 2-3 hours.