Explore Roches Beach, Tasmania, Australia, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Roches Beach, TAS map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — Geoscience Australia topographic mapping and the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 sheets — plus a labelled MGA grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Roches Beach, Tasmania, Australia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Tasmania or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Roches Beach and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Geoscience Australia National Base Map — seamless topographic mapping covering the mainland, Tasmania and the external territories. NATMAP 250K shows the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 map sheets, mosaicked nationwide — the printed sheets generations of Australians navigated the outback with. The search box finds any Australian town, suburb or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Roches Beach.
Reading the map like a paper sheet. Click Grid to overlay the Map Grid of Australia (MGA), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an MGA grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what emergency services and search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load, which across much of inland Australia is most of the time.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Locality | Roches Beach |
| State | Tasmania (TAS) |
| Local Government Area | Clarence City Council |
| Country | Australia |
| Timezone | Australian Eastern Time (AEST/AEDT) |
| Remoteness | Inner Regional Australia |
| Latitude | -42.87989 |
| Longitude | 147.49381 |
| Population | 207 |
| Density | 85.2 /km² |
| Area | 2.4 km² |
| Elevation | 7 m |
| Postcode | 7170 |
| Area Code | 03 |
| Distance to Hobart | 14 km east |
Roches Beach is a locality in the Clarence City Council local government area of Tasmania, Australia. It is a small community with a population of 207. The locality covers an area of 2.4 km², giving a population density of about 85.2 people per km². It sits at an elevation of around 7 m above sea level. It lies approximately 14 km east of Hobart. Roches Beach is located at 42.8799°S, 147.4938°E. It observes Australian Eastern Time (AEST/AEDT). Postcode: 7170. The Australian Bureau of Statistics classifies the area as Inner Regional Australia.
Roches Beach unfolds along the eastern seaboard of a peninsula, a sweep of ochre sand meeting the cool, grey-blue wash of the Derwent River estuary. It lies 13.5 km east of Hobart, TAS (from Hobart, TAS: bearing 89°T), and is situated 12.7 km east-north-east of Sandy Bay. The air here carries a perpetual tang of salt and iodine, a brisk reminder of the water's constant presence, and the low scrubland that fringes the shoreline, a resilient tapestry of coastal tea-tree and hardy grasses, seems to lean into the prevailing breeze. Further inland, the terrain softens into gently rolling paddocks, dotted with the stoic forms of grazing sheep, their fleeces catching the pale Tasmanian sunlight like scattered pearls. The light at dusk, when it descends, paints the water in bruised purples and molten golds, a fleeting spectacle that softens the sharp edges of the day.
The history of Roches Beach is etched not in grand monuments, but in the quiet persistence of its people and the land they have worked. For generations, this stretch of coast has been shaped by the rhythm of the tides and the labours of those who found sustenance from the sea and the soil. The local economy, once reliant on fishing fleets that plied the estuary and smaller farms that coaxed crops from the rich, dark earth, now finds a growing connection to tourism, drawn by the natural beauty of the coastline and the proximity to Hobart. There are whispers of earlier times, of Indigenous custodians who knew these shores intimately, though their stories are carried more in the landscape itself than in written records. Today, Roches Beach retains a character of quiet industry, a place where the days unfurl at a pace dictated by the sun and the tides, and where the neighbouring farms still contribute to the flavour of the region.
Sources: curated tourist landmarks, CAPAD 2024 (Australian protected areas), OpenStreetMap.
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This page provides a street and satellite map of Roches Beach, Tasmania. Live weather conditions with current observations and a 7-day forecast are powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while an editorially written description provides background on Roches Beach, in the Clarence City Council local government area.
Detailed location data for Roches Beach includes the postcode (7170), telephone area code (03), and local government area (Clarence City Council), with an ABS remoteness classification of Inner Regional Australia. These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Australian city, town or locality.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Australian town, suburb or landmark by name; offers Geoscience Australia topographic mapping and the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled Map Grid of Australia (MGA) so the map can be read like a printed topographic sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an MGA grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020) and enriched with GeoNames and Australian Bureau of Statistics data, matched by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Roches Beach is identified even where the name is shared across multiple localities.
| Page generated | October 2026 |
| Location data | Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020); enriched with GeoNames and ABS 2021 Census data, matched by coordinate proximity |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; © Geoscience Australia National Base Map and NATMAP 1:250 000 (CC BY 4.0); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Description | Editorial description generated with AI assistance from verified Geoscape, ABS and GeoNames location data. |