Kent Land District, Tasmania

Kent Land District is one of the twenty land districts of Tasmania which are part of the Cadastral divisions of Tasmania.

It includes Dover, Geeveston and Southport, and part of the Southwest National Park.

On 15 January 1836 George Arthur, the Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Van Diemen's Land proclaimed, via The Hobart Town Courier, the first counties and parishes to be surveyed in the colony.

This county to include all islands situate between Whale head and North Head (Port Davey).

[1] No hundreds and parishes were proclaimed for Kent County at this time.

Much of the area is part of the South West Wilderness , such as Bathurst Harbour shown here