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The pier is also a regularly used fishing spot.

Stanley also is a tourist destination and has a cable car to the hill top. At night penguins could cross the road like deers in European countries.

The population of Stanley only is 460.

There were 41 convicts assigned to the Circular Head establishment housed in these Barracks in 1836.

In 1825 the English Van Diemen's Land Company was granted land in north-western Tasmania Van Diemen's Land, including the Stanley area. Employees of the company from England settled in the area in October 1826. It was named after Lord Stanley, the British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in the 1830s and 1840s, who later had three terms of office as British Prime Minister.

One thing surprised me in that area and taught me more about poppies: I've never before in my life seen such giant poppy fields, not in Afghanistan, nor in Iran, Pakistan, Laos, Burma or Thailand! Tasmania is the world's biggest producer of legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical market. About 500 farmers grow the crop on 20,000 hectares of land, producing around half the country’s need for raw opium for morphine and other opiates. Now I easily understand why the Tasmanians don't like the fact that Afghanistan, Pakistan, Laos, Burma or other counties that produce illegal opium compete with Tasmania.