Low Head is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of George Town in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the town of George Town. The 2016 census recorded a population of 572 for the state suburb of Low Head.[1]
It is a suburb of George Town, on a peninsula at the mouth of the Tamar River.
It is a popular snorkel and scuba diving area during much of the year, with extensive wide, unspoiled beaches.
The area also has a lighthouse, beaches and a colony of little penguins (Eudyptula minor).
The foghorn, a Chance Brothers "Type G" diaphone at Low Head Lighthouse, is the only operable foghorn of its type and is popular with tourists as it is sounded at noon every Sunday.
^ ab"2016 Census Quick Stats Low Head (Tas.)". quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 23 October 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
LowHead is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of George Town in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about...
A weir /wɪər/ or low-head dam is a barrier across the width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in...
LowHead Lighthouse is in LowHead, Tasmania, about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of George Town on the east side of the mouth of the Tamar River. It was...
ranges from as low as 54.5 rpm (Albeni Falls Dam) to 450 rpm. Kaplan turbines are now widely used throughout the world in high-flow, low-head power production...
Micro hydro is frequently accomplished with a pelton wheel for high head, low flow water supply. The installation is often[when?][where?] just a small...
danger lurked in their very smiles. — Captain Charles Johnson on Low's brutality. Lowheaded south and began operating in the waters of Grand Cayman, including...
Hydropower dams can be classified as either "high-head" (greater than 30 m in height) or "low-head" (less than 30 m in height). As of 2021[update], ICOLD's...
politics. Around 1969, Head also began to suffer symptoms of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. After a year of lying low, Head reappeared in Cape Town's...
low weir striking the wheel in the bottom quarter. Most of the energy gain is from the movement of the water and comparatively little from the head....
energy of a low-head water supply is stored temporarily in an air-bubble hydraulic accumulator, then used to drive water to a higher head. Pulser pumps...
ram is sometimes used in remote areas, where there is both a source of low-head hydropower and a need for pumping water to a destination higher in elevation...
with a tall/high head can produce more power than a similar plant with a short/lowhead. In short, for a given water flow, a larger head will be converted...
spade bit horse. They are to show with a lightly arched neck, their heads relatively low and tucked to be almost exactly perpendicular to the ground, with...
dangerous types of holes are formed by low-head dams (weirs), and similar types of obstructions. In a low-head dam, the 'hole' has a very wide, uniform...
fasteners that have head geometries that reduce the shear strength of the fastener, such as lowhead screws and countersunk heads. It also excludes set...
ponds used for algaculture. Propulsion of watercraft (as a paddlewheel) Lowhead hydro power (as a waterwheel) Flow sensors Aerators The paddle wheel is...
of him as chairman, with board members Chris Kraft, head of Mission Operations; George Low, head of JSC's Apollo Program; Max Faget, JSC's Director of...
horses, eventers, and show jumpers, as it travels in a long and low frame, with its head moderately extended. Its frame is more "stretched out" than horses...
retrieved September 6, 2018. Diaphone foghorns are currently still active on LowHead, Souter, whitefish, and Portland Bill, and Whitby Lighouses, for example...
High Education Press, Beijing, China. Cumming, G (2004). "The Impact of Low-Head Dams on Fish Species Richness in Wisconsin, USA". Ecological Applications...
evolution of the Francis turbine and revolutionized the ability to develop low-head hydro sites. All common water machines until the late 19th century (including...
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