About the town » Burnie, Burnie, Tasmania, Australia

Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, originally settled in 1827 as Emu Bay. The (then) town was renamed for William Burnie – a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company – in the early 1840s. The town boundary usually includes the outer town of Somerset. Burnie is governed by the City of Burnie local government area. At the 2011 Australian Census the local government area recorded a population of 19,329.