This file contains 59 centroids for Van Diemen's Land/Tasmanian administrative districts. These centroids are used as a reference point to aid the location of other information. Digital History Tasmania is in the process of creating a series of shape files for each of these administrative areas which will include details of boundary changes over time. This information will be updated and links provided when these are completed.

The parent dataset from which this file is derived is described here:

T. Cowley, L. Frost, K. Inwood, R. Kippen, H. Maxwell-Stewart, M. Schwarz, J. Shepherd, R. Tuffin, M. Williams, J. Wilson, P. Wilson, ‘Reconstructing Longitudinal datasets for Tasmania’, Historical Life Course Studies, 11, 2 (2021): 20-47, doi.org/10.51964/hlcs10912