Kettering is located 34 kilometres south of Hobart and is the terminal for the Bruny Island ferry service. The area is principally involved in fruit growing, with Tasmania's first berries reported to have been planted in the area.

Nearby to Kettering is Oyster Cove, around which the majority of the state's aboriginal population lived prior to settlement of the area by Europeans. White settlement, however, forced the aborigines to abandon their shore dwellings, and to migrate westward into the hills.

The Oyster Cove area then served as a convict penitentiary in the 1840s, but poor sanitary conditions led to outbreaks of disease; as a result of which many lives were lost. White men left the area, and it returned to the ownership of the descendants of the original aboriginal inhabitants. Truganini, believed to have been the last full blooded aboriginal alive in Tasmania, had her ashes scattered over Oyster Bay in 1976, one hundred years after her death.

The D'Entrecasteaux Monument remembers the visit of Rear Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux to the Huon and Channel districts in the late 1790s. Nearby Trial Bay has boat launching facilities.

Orchards are abundant around Kettering, and fine fruits such as apples, pears, strawberries, raspberries and loganberries can be found in good supply.

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