Lapoinya

Lapoinya Tasmania
Lapoinya
Coordinates	41°02′S 145°34′E / 41.033°S 145.567°E / -41.033; 145.567Coordinates: 41°02′S 145°34′E / 41.033°S 145.567°E / -41.033; 145.567
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.

First developed commercially around 1900 it has been a centre for forestry, mixed agriculture (especially potato-growing and grazing (mostly dairy cattle). In November 2014 it was announced the town was fighting Forestry Tasmania to attempt to stop the company logging the towns surrounding forest.

Lapoinya Post Office opened on 1 November 1912 and closed in 1970.

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