Brighton tourist information
Brighton Australia
Brighton, a pleasant seaside resort town on the southern coast of England, can surely have very few similarities with Brighton, approx. 27 kms north of Hobart, Tasmania. Yet, Governor Lachlan Macquarie, in 1821, when he visited Van Diemens Land, decided that this military post should be named Brighton 'in honour of our present gracious Sovereign's favourite place of residence'. So, today, on the Midland Highway between Hobart and Launceston, a world away from the England of King George IV and the English southern coast, there is a township named Brighton. By the early 1820's there was some talk of Brighton becoming the capital of Van Diemens Land but this was dropped and in 1826, it became an important military post on the main Hobart/ Launceston road. Brighton can boast long military links, the first soldiers marched into Brighton in August, 1914. In more recent years Brighton featured in the news when the Brighton Military Camp was used as a "safe haven" for Kosovo refugees during the 1990's Balkan crisis.
Brighton aerial map
Please click on any icon on the Brighton aerial tourist map, to find close by places, offering hotels and tourist information. You can zoom in and zoom out our touristical map as well as switch between satelite and map view of Brighton.
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