Eggs and Bacon Bay is a community in

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within the local government area of

Huon Valley The Huon Valley, often shortened to the Huon, is a rural region and river valley in southern Tasmania, Australia. Centred on the lower reaches of the Huon River, it was historically renowned for its apple orchards. Today the valley’s econ ...

. It is approximately from the state capital

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and from the nearest township of Cygnet. Eggs and Bacon Bay covers an area of 1.24 square kilometres, and had a population of 124 residents at the 2021 census. The main geographical feature of the community is Eggs and Bacon Bay Beach. It is long, deep and rated in the lowest

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Beachsafe hazard category (level 1). It has parking, public toilets, picnic table facilities and a boat ramp. The unusual name is said to be based on the yellow and streaky red eggs-and-bacon flowers that grow in the area from the pea family of

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. An alternative, though likely untrue, story is that Lady Jane Franklin, wife of the 18th century governor

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, ate bacon and eggs there around 1840.

References

Localities of Huon Valley Council Populated places on the Huon River {{Australia-geo-stub