It is the primary retail area of the eastern shore, home to Eastlands Shopping Centre, the second biggest in the state. The shopping centre includes 80 stores including Tasmania's first Big W store.
Rosny, also has a Village Cinema complex, one of only four in the state.
Rosny College is a senior secondary college, located in Rosny, Tasmania.
Rosny is a suburb of the City of Clarence, part of the greater Hobart area, Tasmania, Australia.
Rosny College was founded in 1973 to provide opportunities for post-year 10 education in the Clarence Municipality and it still draws the large majority of its students from schools on the Eastern Shore of the Derwent River in Hobart.
Rosny is the residential part of its commercial namesake Rosny Park.
Rosny is a pretty, quiet, residential area, with sweeping views of the Derwent River and its estuary, the Tasman Bridge and Mount Wellington, and looks directly across the river to the CBD of Hobart.
From the shore it climbs the rising slopes of Rosny Hill.