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Answer» What is Burnie mean? Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. Burnie was proclaimed a city by Queen Elizabeth II on 26 April 1988. As of 2019, Burnie had an urban population of 19,550.Burnie is governed by the City of Burnie local government area. reference
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