| Type: | town |
| Lapoinya | |
| State: | tas |
| Coordinates: | -41.0333°N 179°W |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Lga: | Waratah-Wynyard Council |
| Postcode: | 7325 |
| Stategov: | Braddon |
| Fedgov: | Braddon |
| Near-Nw: | Myalla |
| Near-N: | Sisters Creek |
| Near-Ne: | Moorleah |
| Near-W: | Milabena |
| Near-E: | Moorleah |
| Near-Sw: | Meunna |
| Near-S: | Preolenna |
| Near-Se: | Preolenna |
Lapoinya (pronounced La-poin-ya) is a small agricultural centre on the north-west coast of Tasmania west of Wynyard. The name is Tasmanian Aboriginal word for "fern tree", a plant that abounds in those surviving untouched parts of the original temperate rainforest. At the 2006 census, Lapoinya had a population of 368.
First developed commercially around 1900, the town has been a centre for forestry, mixed agriculture (especially potato-growing), and grazing (mostly dairy cattle).
Lapoinya Post Office opened on 1 November 1912, and closed in 1970.[1]
In November 2014, it was announced the town was fighting Forestry Tasmania to attempt to stop the company logging the towns surrounding forest.[2] In January 2016, Bob Brown and three others were arrested during an anti-logging protest on a 49-hectare Forestry Tasmania coupe at Lopoinya.[3]