Located 79 km southeast of country's capital Hobart, Doo Town was established in the 1830s as an unnamed timber station which eventually developed into a shack community.

In 1935 a Hobart architect, Eric Round, placed the name plate Doo I 99 on his weekend shack.

Eric Round's shack was later renamed Xanadu or Xanadoo.

[4][5][6] Interestingly, the list does not yet contain the names Doo Hast, Baby Shark or Scooby-Doo.

In 2004, Off Planet Films made a pilot for a television cartoon series set in and named after the Tasmanian town, the cartoon portrayed a "backwater" town full of dodgy characters, rednecks, aliens, strip-clubs and gratuitous nudity.