Salamanca Place

Salamanca Place is defined by a long, unbroken row of heavy sandstone warehouses that rise directly from the pavement. Built in the eighteen thirties, these buildings feature thick, hand-hewn stone walls originally designed to store whale oil, timber, and grain for the bustling port of Hobart. Convicts carved the stone and raised these structures during the peak of the colony’s whaling industry, when ships arrived from across the world to unload their cargo at the nearby New Wharf.