To be honest I didn't actually plan to visit the most northern, eastern, southern, & western pubs in Australia, it just sort of happened over a number of years. I can't even remember when I visited the first one, the E The Beach Hotel in Byron Bay, NSW (latitude -28.6415, longitude 153.613), which is Australia's most eastern one, but it was definitely one of the years when I was at Splendour in the Grass, so sometime in the early-mid 2000s. I think it was owned by Paul Hogan at the time, and didn't really like the pub, and can't remember what beer I had but it was probably an Old or Carlton. The second pub I visited was the westernmost one, the W Shark Bay Hotel, in Denham, WA (-25.9277, 113.5342... maybe had a Carlton?) in 2017. Again, it wasn't really planned, I was just on a road trip with my wife up to Monkey Mia from Perth, and we happened to stop in for beers. It might have had a sign saying it was the westernmost pub in Australia or something, but I can't recall. And I think it was at this pub that I started vaguely thinking that it would be fun to eventually getting around to visiting the most northern and southern ones as well (a quick check of the map showed that I'd already visited the most eastern one). We visited the most southern one, S The Southport Hotel & Caravan Park in Southport, Tasmania (-43.4238, 146.9732, had a Coopers) a year later in June 2018, after some friends had been there on a road trip. Again, the trip wasn't necessarily to see the pub, it was actually to drive to the end of the southernmost road in Australia, and the pub happened to be on the way. It wasn't until the 28th of December 2023 that we finally got to N The Torres Hotel on Thursday Island, QLD (-10.5833, 142.2163, had a Crownie cos they had no beers on tap at the time...).
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* Not surprisingly there is some debate about which are the most northern/eastern/southern/western pubs and much of that comes down to what makes a pub. For example, you can no doubt get beers on Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands to the west, and on Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island to the east, but none of those places seem to be pubs as far as I can tell. Note: I'm a bit of a completionist, so have also been travelling to ocean pools, more ocean pools, hot springs, laksa restaurants, old cinemas, countries, and after a recent trip to SA, I wanna start one on jetties.
The most northern, eastern, southern, and western parts of the world I've bought a beer here.