Hobart

The state capital of Tasmania, Hobart is a city of approximately 190,000 people on the estuary of the Derwent River in the state's south-east.

Located largely on steep hills up to the often snow-covered peak of Mt Wellington (approximately 1200 metres high), this picturesque little city is a busy seaport, notably serving as the home port for Australia's Antarctic activities, and supports several secondary industries (notably including a high-speed catamaran factory and a zinc smelter) as well as a vibrant tourist industry, visitors drawn to the city to explore its historic inner suburbs, the weekly craft market in Salamanca Place, as well as a base to explore the rest of Tasmania from.

(history needed here, including penal colony, seal and whalers, postwar economic decline)