Mowbray is a suburb of Launceston in the
Australian state of Tasmania and is the site of
Mowbray Racecourse, home of the Launceston
Cup. Mowbray also contains the minor suburbs of
Mowbray Heights and Vermont. The suburb of
Mowbray is located on a flat-topped, alluvial shelf,
known as Mowbray Hill (formerly Paint Mine Hill),
roughly 28m above the Tamar River and its flood
plains.