Over 16,000 people live and work in the towns and villages
throughout the area and every year, thousands of visitors travel there to enjoy the fabulous scenery, from
wild moorlands and soaring mountain peaks to spectacular
rivers and tranquil lochs.
Soak up history at the former penal colony of Port Arthur, Hobart s historic waterfront and numerous gracious Georgian farmhouses
throughout the countryside, walk over Cataract Gorge, a dramatic wilderness right in the centre of Launceston, take the Overland Track through the scenic beauty of Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park, admire the perfect curve of Wineglass Bay in Freycinet National Park, watch the majestic Gordon
River meet the
wild Franklin River in the spectacular wilderness of the Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, take a scenic rack - and - pinion railway to historic Queenstown, once the world s richest gold and copper mine and walk to Montezuma Falls, Tasmania s tallest waterfall, from the peaceful town of Roseb
wild Franklin
River in the spectacular wilderness of the Franklin - Gordon
Wild Rivers National Park, take a scenic rack - and - pinion railway to historic Queenstown, once the world s richest gold and copper mine and walk to Montezuma Falls, Tasmania s tallest waterfall, from the peaceful town of Roseb
Wild Rivers National Park, take a scenic rack - and - pinion railway to historic Queenstown, once the world s richest gold and copper mine and walk to Montezuma Falls, Tasmania s tallest waterfall, from the peaceful town of Rosebery.
Throughout the latter part of the 20th century, the once - plentiful
wild salmon populations in the chilly waters of the North Atlantic dwindled to dangerously low levels, affecting not only the sensitive ocean and
river ecosystems of the region, but also the rural communities for whom salmon fishing is a long - held local tradition and source of income.