Quamby Bend, Tasmania

{{Use Australian English|date=May 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Quamby Bend

| state = tas

| coordinates={{Coord|-41.4842|146.8624|format=dms|type:city_region:AU-TAS|display=inline,title}}

| image =

| caption =

| pop = 26

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}

| pop_footnotes={{cite web |url=https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC60523?opendocument |title=2016 Census Quick Stats Quamby Bend (Tas.) |author= |date=23 October 2017 |website=quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=13 September 2020 |quote=}}

| established =

| postcode = 7292

| elevation =

| region = Launceston

| location1 = Westbury

| dist1 = 7

| dir1 = N

| lga = Meander Valley

| stategov = Lyons

| fedgov = Lyons

| maxtemp =

| mintemp =

| rainfall =

| near-nw = Westbury

| near-n = Selbourne

| near-ne = Selbourne

| near-e = Hagley

| near-w = Westbury

| near-sw = Westbury

| near-s = Hagley, Westbury

| near-se = Hagley

}}

Quamby Bend is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Meander Valley in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about {{convert|7|km}} north of the town of Westbury. The 2016 census recorded a population of 26 for the state suburb of Quamby Bend.

==History==

Quamby Bend was gazetted as a locality in 1968.{{cite web |url=https://www.placenames.tas.gov.au/#p1 |title=Placenames Tasmania – Quamby Bend |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Placenames Tasmania |access-date=13 September 2020 |at=Select “Search”, enter "7650E", click “Search”, select row, map is displayed, click “Details”}}

The name comes from Quamby Estate, the property established in the district by Sir Richard Dry, who was Premier of Tasmania from 1866 to 1869. It is believed to be an Aboriginal word for “mercy” or “stop”.{{cite web|url=https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22682/3/dennison-L-Z-opt.pdf |title=Where in Tasmania? L-Z Page 49 |publisher=Dennison Publications |date=July 2003 |access-date=14 December 2020}}