| Type: | town |
| Little Swanport | |
| State: | tas |
| Pop: | 117 |
| Pop Year: | 2016 census |
| Pop Footnotes: | [1] |
| Postcode: | 7190 |
| Region: | South-east |
| Location1: | Swansea |
| Dist1: | 23 |
| Dir1: | N |
| Lga: | Glamorgan–Spring Bay |
| Stategov: | Lyons |
| Fedgov: | Lyons |
| Near-Nw: | Tooms Lake |
| Near-N: | Rocky Hills |
| Near-Ne: | Tasman Sea |
| Near-E: | Tasman Sea |
| Near-W: | Tooms Lake, Swanston |
| Near-Sw: | Buckland |
| Near-S: | Triabunna |
| Near-Se: | Tasman Sea |
Little Swanport is a rural locality and an estuary in the local government area of Glamorgan–Spring Bay in the South-east region of Tasmania. It is especially significant for the Little Swanport language. The locality is about south of the town of Swansea. The 2016 census has a population of 117 for the state suburb of Little Swanport.[1]
Little Swanport is a confirmed suburb/locality.[2] The indigenous name for the Little Swanport area was recorded by George Augustus Robinson in 1831 as meaning "place where a moving stream flows into a large estuary surrounded by hills".[3]
The eastern boundary of Little Swanport is the Tasman Sea. The locality surrounds the estuary of the Little Swanport River and the locality of Pontypool.[4]
The A3 route (Tasman Highway) enters from the south and runs through to the north-east.[2] [5]