Detention is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Circular Head in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about east of the town of Smithton. The 2016 census recorded a population of nil for the state suburb of Detention.
History Detention was gazetted as a locality in 1973.
The Detention River, from which the locality takes its name, was so named in 1826 when a party of surveyors was stranded (detained) there by a flood.
Geography The estuary of the Detention River forms the western boundary, and the waters of Bass Strait the northern.
Road infrastructure Route A2 (Bass Highway) runs through from east to west.
Notable residents Senator Eric Bessell attended the state school at Detention in the 1930s.
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