1.6m hectares of wilderness. Give me more.
by Vytas Huth, Landscape Ecology, University of Rostock / Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Rostock / Müncheberg, Germany
The south-western wilderness of Tasmania as seen from the Tahune air walk 60 m above the Huon river valley. In front lies the beginning of a huge UNESCO world heritage site, covering almost a fourth of the area of Tasmania. The site mostly consists of a pristine, temperate rainforest of Gondwanan origin that is home to the tallest flowering trees in the world; Eucalyptus spp. reach up to 100 m height in this region. I have never tasted the sense of a more remote place than this one. Give me more.
Taken on 21
August
2016
Submitted on 07 March 2017
Featured on GeoLog, the official blog of the European Geosciences Union
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- Oceania (216)
- Australia and New Zealand (203)
- Australia (87)
- Exact location (146.7230 E, -43.0954 S)
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australia, rainforest, tasmania, eucalyptus, huon river, gondwana, unesco world heritage site, tahune air walk
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