Monday, October 24, 2016

National Trust Tasmanian Heritage Register 14D - Snug Tiers, other Huon heritage, and Strathgordon

Other Heritage Registered Properties in the Huon Valley Municipality

From records held at https://dmzapp17p.ris.environment.gov.au/ahpi/action/search/manage-heritage-search/landing (which waswww.heritage.gov.auusing Local Government search term "Huon" in state of "Tasmania".

Fanny Cochrane Smith
Fanny Cochrane Smith

HA1. Former Methodist Church Nicholls Rivulet Road and Cross Road, Nicholls Rivulet

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The former Methodist church at Nicholls Rivulet is one of only two surviving structures with direct associations with the Tasmanian Aboriginal race (the other being Dolly Dalrymple's cottage at Sherwood, near Latrobe) (G.1).

This is a small rectangular Federation Carpenter Gothic church on a rubble foundation with steeply pitched gable roof with exposed rafters clad in corrugated iron. The walls are weatherboard. It features an elaborately carved bargeboard to the north end with a timber finial.
  • The entrance below is two doors within a pointed arch frame. The windows are multi-paned arches. The floor of the church is tongue and grooved hardwood. There is a 1360mm high dado of 150mm wide beaded baltic pine boards (fixed vertically), with a moulded dado rail. The wall lining above consists of horizontal boards, to a height of 2250mm. There is no evidence of any lining having existed above this level, suggesting that the interior lining may have been left partly finished.
The exposed roof framing includes rafters, collar ties and two horizontal iron tie-rods, with vertical rods connecting to the collars above. There is a raised platform or dais at the southern end, with a rail supported by three turned timber posts (partly damaged). Furniture includes simple moveable forms and a timber lectern.

HA2. Garden Island Creek School 6066 Channel Highway, Garden Island Creek

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The Garden Island Creek school is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian school building.
Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms, timber bargeboards and finials, 12-paned windows and a verandah with timber detailing.
  • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
Now the location of School House Craft - Lyn Butler
  • School House 6066 Channel Hwy, Garden Island Creek, Tas 03 6297 8136.
  • Machine and hand sewing embroidery, applique, patchwork, knitted toys.
  • Tasmanian Heritage Register #3530

HA3. Glenfiddich - now Harmony Farm, 232 Police Point Road, Police Point

  • (circa 1868) heritage listed on 4 1/2 acres (approx) (1.78 ha).
  • Charming Victorian workers cottage
  • modern kitchen, renovated, quiet location - sold for $392400 9/5/2015
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Harmony Farm (Glenfiddich) is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weather board Victorian Georgian domestic building.

Description: This is a weatherboard cottage with a central door, flanking double hung windows and hipped roof with narrow boxed eaves. The verandah on the street facade has hipped ends and single posts with a timber rail. There is a single dormer window in the roof.
  • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian - Sale Listing
  • Tasmanian Heritage Register #3582

HA4. Glenthorn RA 8634 Channel Highway, Woodstock

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A single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building.

Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with gabled roof forms, attic windows, decorative bargeboards and a verandah to two sides.
  • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
  • Tasmanian Heritage Register #3598

HA5. Hall RA 8241 Channel Highway, Cradoc

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The Cradoc Hall is of historic heritage significance because it contributes a sense of history and built character to the streetscape and is representative in demonstrating early 20th century human activities in the area, with particular reference to land use for the provision of public buildings and local amenities. This place has special meaning to the community for its associations with local war participants.

Description: A large opened planned weatherboard hall with an L shaped end which houses a meeting room and kitchen. The roof is steeply pitched, gabled and clad in corrugated iron. The gabled ends feature plain timber bargeboards. Windows are large paned. Inside is a commemorative roll of honour from the world wars. Two mature pine trees feature at the northern side.
  • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation
  • Tasmanian Heritage Register #8747

HA6. House RA 336 Esperance Coast Road, Police Point
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Description: This is a weatherboard building with two projecting gables, one to the front and one to the side, between these and around the corner of the house, is a verandah with decorative brackets. The windows are double hung.
  • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian; Tasmanian Heritage Register #3463

HA7. House RA 8970 Channel Highway, Woodstock

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Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof, multi-paned windows and a verandah. There are also dormer windows. There is a central 4-panelled door, with flanking double hung windows.
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
Tasmanian Heritage Register #3602


HA8. House 414 Cygnet Coast Road, Lymington

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Description: This is a weatherboard cottage with a central door, flanking double hung windows and hipped roof with narrow boxed eaves. The verandah on the street facade has hipped ends and treillage posts and valance.
  • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
  • Tasmanian Heritage Register #3600

HA9. House 360 Bakers Creek Road, Bakers Creek

This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.

Description: This is a hipped roofed Victorian Georgian house with a later gable roofed building built to one side. The front door is four panelled with a central glazed section and side and top lights, the flanking windows are double hung. There is a valley gutter between the two sections of the building.
  • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
  • Tasmanian Heritage Register #3574

HA10. House 1305 Pelverata Road, Pelverata, Huon Valley

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This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building.
Description: This is a weatherboard house with a hipped roof and a verandah on three sides. The verandah has a single dormer window with a gabled roof. The front door is four panelled with side and top lights.
  • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian; Tasmanian Heritage Register #3581

HA11. House RA 330 Esperance Coast Road, Police Point Huon Valley

This house looks completely re-built and so is no longer a heritage property.
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This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building. These characteristics are found in the external form, construction methods and the detailing, both externally and internally.

Description: A weatherboard building with two projecting gables, one to the front and one to the side, between these and turning the corner of the house, is a verandah with decorative brackets. The windows are double hung.
  • ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian
  • Tasmanian Heritage Register #6647
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HA12. Snug Tiers, Snug Tiers Rd, Snug Huon Valley

Snug Tiers Animation
Snug Tiers Animation

  • Register of the National Estate Record #11478
  • This route is at altitude (above 600m) and the winds can get biting up here, so have some good warm clothes and wet weather gear. You will get wet feet on this path even in Summer - accept this early and you'll have more fun.
    This can be a great place for winter snow riding near Hobart, but only for those who have the right winter gear.
  • Those who are out here for the scenery may enjoy the walk down to the bottom of Pelverata Falls (the MTB route comes out at the top). You have to walk down to the top of the falls and cross the creek and head up the slippery flow stone on the other side from where you can pick up a cairned foot pad that will lead you steeply down to the base of the falls (joining the walking track that comes in from Pelverata).
  • This track is hard to follow, and extremely dangerous as it descends a rock scree. It should only be contemplated by very experienced walkers who bring some decent walking shoes in with them. Allow at least an hour to do this return walk.
  • Lots of opportunities up here for accidents as the trail is very rocky in places and you might not always have phone reception. Despite it's proximity to Hobart treat this as a remote area, carry a first aid kit and let someone know where you've gone.[7]
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Statement of Significance: The area is the habitat for several rare plant species; MONOTOCA LINIFOLIA which is unreserved, and EUCALYPTUS CORDATA which is poorly reserved.
  • The area is also noted as having the highest diversity of eucalypt species in Tasmania. Of further scientific interest is the presence of a large number of endemic plant species, a high proportion of which are unconforming with their accepted distribution.
  • Such plant refugia assist in the understanding of the present day ecology and the revision of theories on the spread of plant species after the last glaciation.

Description: The area is elevated and its slopes are generally steep and rugged in places. Both Snug River and Melville Creek are in deep valleys.
  • The Snug Tiers area forms the eastern side of an elevated plateau and includes the Snug Plains.
  • The variety of vegetation types reflects both the topography and fire history.
  • The Snug Tiers area offers superb views because of its elevated position, and conversely is visible from the north, south, and east.

Strathgordon National Heritage


The Arthur Range, viewed from Scotts Peak, Tasmania
The Arthur Range, viewed from Scotts Peak, Tasmania


Strathgordon is set deep within the Tasmanian wilderness on the banks of Lake Pedder, surrounded by a spectacular landscape packed with adventure activities, and with a secret history to share.
  • Located on the edge of Tasmania's World Heritage Wilderness Area, Strathgordon is literally the place at the end of the road. From here, civilisation ends and there is only amazing nature to explore.
It also sits on the edge of Lake Pedder, Australia's largest freshwater lake and water catchment system. A key part of Tasmania's hydroelectric scheme, this massive lake is also accessible for trout fishing, kayaking and swimming.
  • These are spectacular surrounds – with vast expanses of water, forested islands, distant snowy peaks and a peaceful quiet. The drive on from Maydena to Strathgordon is itself an adventure as it passes through stunning scenery in this wilderness area.
  • Numerous walking trails explore the lake's edge and surrounding wilderness, as well as the Gordon Dam wall - an engineering marvel that now offers thrill seekers the highest abseiling experience in the world.
  • A wander around the old town reveals the area's engineering history – and the natural history lost to it including the original Lake Pedder, with its spectacular beach of pink quartz sand.

SG. Strathgordon Area

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SG1. Angel Cliffs, Gordon River Strathgordon, TAS, Australia

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The area covers a short stretch of the lower Gordon River where it is broad but still relatively fast flowing. The river narrows at Angel Cliffs which are 20 to 30 metres high and composed of Ordovician limestone.
  • The cliffs feature a calcite incrustation which resembles a biblical angel. There are a number of small caves in the area, the largest being rocky Sprent cave. Temperate rainforest dominates the riverside vegetation.
  • Registered on the Register of the National Estate

SG2. Franklin River Derwent Bridge, TAS, Australia

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The Franklin River is 130km long, rising nearly 1,400m above sea level, and joining the Gordon River at sea level. It has fourth largest flow volume of Tasmanian rivers and its tributaries include the Collingwood, Loddon, Andrew and Jane Rivers. Andrew Basin is the site of Darwin meteorite crater. The Franklin completely drains the Frenchman's Cap massif, flowing through spectacular gorges including Irenabyss, Great Ravine, Propsting Gorge and Glen Calder. Its broad lower reaches are in cave-pocked limestone country. River and environs remain in essentially pre-man condition.

Franklin River is a wilderness river: no habitation, agriculture, major introduced species along any of its length.
  • Tasmania's 4th largest river, flows through largest gorge (Great Ravine - 5 km long and up to 0.8 km deep) and a chasm (the Irenabyss). Most undamaged large temperate wild river in Australia.
  • Quickly becoming canoeist and inflatable rafter and bushwalker 'mecca'.
  • Natural species include Huon pine and new, undescribed species of OREOMYRRHIS. Crossed by Governor and Lady Franklins' expedition, May 1842.
  • Registered on the Register of the National Estate

SG3. Gordon Dam and Lake Gordon Gordon River Road

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The 135 km Gordon River rises on the eastern side of the Mount King William Range from where it flows nearly due south for approximately 45km before turning west. The river then cuts through several north-south oriented ranges before turning north west in the direction of Macquarie Harbour.
  • The mouth of the Gordon River is at the south east, or inland, end of Macquarie Harbour.
  • Gordon Dam is located 75 km from the river mouth in a deep narrow gorge cut by the river between the north-south trending Hamilton and Wilmot Ranges which lie to the north and south of the dam respectively.
  • Mt Sprent (1058m) lies 10 km to the south of the dam in the Wilmot Range.
The Dam and Lake are located in a landscape which has complex geomorphic expression and high diversity of landforms, geology, soils and biota.
  • There is no record of human occupation of the region and the only recorded human activity in the region was 19th century geological and survey exploration and track cutting to provide walking access from the occupied Derwent River valley to convict pining and mining settlements near Macquarie Harbour on the west coast of Tasmania.
  • In the 20th century, bushwalkers followed the track to Port Davey south of Macquarie Harbour. The penetration of the region for construction and operation of the Dam was not only a significant change in land use but also in the recording of and access to the region.
Gordon Dam (and Lake Gordon) was a landmark event in that:
  • .it was associated with the first non-Aboriginal occupation of this previously unrecorded region of Tasmania;
  • .it influenced a significant phase in the economic development of the state; and .its approval by the Tasmanian parliament
  • and its construction were the prologue to a debate which led to significant change in federal-state relationships with regard to land use and control and development of natural resources.
A considerable number of articles, papers and books have been published on a wide range of issues associated with the Gordon River Power Development
  • Registered on the Register of the National Estate

SG4. Gordon River State Reserve (Former) Strahan, TAS, Australia

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SG5. Indigenous Place Strathgordon, TAS, Australia

Lake Pedder area
Lake Pedder area

SG6. Scotts Peak Dam and Lake Pedder Scotts Peak Road Via Strathgordon, TAS, Australia

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The dam and Lake Pedder are located in a spectacular region of south-west Tasmania. The landscape consists of the highest mountain in the South-West (Mt Anne, 1350 m) jagged mountain ranges with numerous quartzite or dolerite peaks (the Frankland Range and the Mt Anne Range) a very large lake, cleared of trees which would have died after inundation and been visible from popular viewing points button grass plains forested slopes and creek lines the effects of centuries of wild fires streams carrying dark coloured (button grass) water careful construction of the project and restoration of disturbed areas, to minimise permanent visual scars.
Static map showing location of Scotts Peak Road
Static map showing location of Scotts Peak Road


The Frankland Range provides a very attractive backdrop for the lake, especially in calm sunny weather when the reflections of the mountains can be seen in the lake surface.
  • The high rainfall and cool temperatures favour rain forests and dense plant growth where there is suitable nutrition. In the high rainfall areas the steeper slopes lose most of the plant nutrients following fire. Pockets of thick rainforest remain on southern and eastern slopes which are seldom burnt, whereas the northern and western slopes carry denuded sedgeland and button grass and heath.
  • The high rainfall also favours the development of peat forming communities in infertile regions. Button grass thrives in the peaty acidic soils of the wide flat plains; each plant consists of a browny green clump sprouting a few long reeds each ending in a black knob or button.

The following description of the flora around Lake Pedder is taken from Brown, 1955:
  • Lovely and diverse flora blooms on the extensive button grass plains, wooded hills and the rocky peaks.
  • From November to the end of January, the plains are a kaleidoscope of colour: the delicate pink of swamp heath, cream and mauve melaleuca, the guinea gold of ground-hugging hibbertias, pale blue iris, the flamboyant scarlet and orange-hued blandfordia lily, and over all a pungent perfume which recalls the South-West so vividly to all walkers, the lemon-scented thyme, a species of boronia.
  • Lake Pedder is popular with anglers and is renowned for its large trout.

Scotts Peak Dam Road

- From Roaming Down Under
Tasmania's southwest wilderness is largely untouched by humans and accessible only to serious hikers. However two hydroelectric roads penetrate into parts of it, allowing anyone in a conventional vehicle to get a taste of this rugged wilderness. Panoramas of the jagged Arthur and Frankland Ranges, Mt Anne and Lake Pedder can be had simply by driving up this gravel road.
View from Scotts Peak Dam Road, near the Creepy Crawlie track, Tasmania
View from Scotts Peak Dam Road, near the Creepy Crawlie track, Tasmania

near the Creepy Crawlie track
Although the flooding of Lake Pedder in the early 1970s was widely viewed as an environmental tragedy, it had a positive side. Travelers today get to drive on roads originally built to access dam construction sites, giving regular people limited access to some awesome scenery.
The road used to access Mt Field National Park and Russell Falls continues all the way to Strathgordon, deep in the southwest, and is sealed all the way. Branching off of this road is the gravel road I'm writing about here. It extends about 40km and leads to a dam built near Scotts Peak, hence the unimaginative but accurate name of Scotts Peak Dam Road.
If you've driven much in Tasmania you may have noticed that the gravel roads come in two main flavours. There are the hard stony surfaces, which may shake any loose bits off your vehicle but provide good grip in the wet. Then there are the smooth roads which provide a gentle ride, but whose surfaces turn to slippery mush after a bit of rain. Fortunately, given the area's remoteness, the road to Scotts Peak Dam is of the first type, a bit corrugated and pot-holed but reassuringly firm.
The turn-off is 29km past Maydena, and one of the first features is the Creepy Crawly Track. This is short loop walk through some attractive forest. The signage along the track is aimed at making the walk more appealing for children, but anyone who appreciates Tasmania's lush forests should enjoy it. In clear weather glimpses of distant Mt Field can be seen from the road in the vicinity of the track.
Mt Anne from the edge of Lake Pedder, Tasmania
Mt Anne from the edge of Lake Pedder, Tasmania

Further on, the road undulates, and alternates between dense forest, more open country and buttongrass plains. Soon Mt Anne comes into view - this is the highest peak in southwest Tasmania, usually snow-capped in winter and often in other seasons too. As the road progresses the view changes and reveals the other peaks of the Mt Anne massif - Mt Sarah Jane and Mt Eliza. In clear weather, and especially with snow, the views can be rather alluring. If you're driving, remember to watch the road!
The trailheads for the Mt Anne and Lake Judd tracks are passed, followed by glimpses of Lake Pedder. This is not the original Lake Pedder, but the massive 55km long flooded version which resulted from dam building. Even so, it can be very pleasing to the eye.
The first of two modest dams are passed, Edgar Dam, with a campground off to the left. Six kilometers further on the Huon campground turnoff is passed - and also the trailhead for intrepid hikers setting off into weeks of rain and mud. After the Scotts Peak Dam is passed, the road climbs to its terminus at the top of Scotts Peak. If the weather is clear, be prepared for some stunning panoramas.
Prince of Wales Range photos by David Noble
Prince of Wales Range photos by David Noble

Scotts Peak sits at the south-eastern end of the present Lake Pedder in a commanding position. The Mt Anne massif can be seen in all its glory, along with the full extent of the Arthur Range - not very high, but carved by glaciers into probably the most jagged and spectacular range in Australia. No self-respecting Tasmanian wilderness calendar is complete without a shot from part of the Arthur Range.

My strongest advice for anyone wanting to taste Tasmania's southwest wilderness from the Scotts Peak Dam Road is to visit in good weather, if it is at all possible. The region is notorious for inclement weather, and while the drive would still be pleasant in rain, it is the distant views which make it really special. Clear skies, or high cloud without rain, are preferable.

SG7. Prince of Wales Range Strathgordon, TAS, Australia

A brief glimpse of the Prince of Wales Range
A brief glimpse of the Prince of Wales Range

The jagged peaks along the 25 kilometre spine of the Prince of Wales range are a prominent and spectacular feature in the viewfields from major peaks and recreational destinations in the central part of the Western Tasmania national estate listing.
Diamond Peak in particular is an outstanding visual feature for its sharp triangular summit block

SG8. South West National Park Strathgordon, TAS, Australia

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Australia's major temperate wilderness.
  • Registered on the Register of the National Estate

SG9. Tasmanian Wilderness Strathgordon, TAS, Australia

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The Tasmanian Wilderness was inscribed on the World Heritage List for both its outstanding natural and cultural universal values:
Natural
  • as an outstanding example representing the major stages in the earth's evolutionary history;
  • as an outstanding example representing significant ongoing ecological and biological processes;
  • as an example of superlative natural phenomena; and
  • contains important and significant habitats for in situ conservation of biological diversity.
Cultural
  • bearing an exceptional testimony to a civilisation or cultural tradition.
  • as an outstanding example of a type of landscape which illustrates significant stages in human history
  • being directly and tangibly associated with living traditions of outstanding universal significance.

SG10. The Gordon River Splits Strathgordon, TAS, Australia

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The area has moderate to high wilderness values, with particularly high biophysical naturalness.
The splits are extremely impressive for the huge flows of water through very narrow and tall chasms, and the consequently very large rapids.
  • The Gordon is the Tasmanian river with the largest mean annual flow , and is relatively fast flowing in its middle stretches.
  • While the area is barely disturbed, aquatic natural values have likely changed since the diversion of waters from the Huon River to the Gordon following the construction of the middle Gordon Hydro-electric scheme.
  • This has led to flow levels throughout the year similar to those which were previously only experienced during flood peaks.
  • The splits themselves are extremely narrow chasms with walls 30 -60 metres high.
  • The full flow of the river through these constrictions leads to very powerful currents and impressive rapids. The valley sides are covered in rainforests and wet scrubs of MELALEUCA, LEPTOSPERMUM and BANKSIA.
Lake Pedder and Scotts Peak
Lake Pedder and Scotts Peak

SG11. Truchanas Nature Reserve, Strathgordon, TAS, Australia

Natural Huon Pine forest.
Olegas Truchanas (1923 - 6 January 1972) was a Lithuanian-Australian conservationist and nature photographer.
He was a key figure in the attempt to stop the damming of the ecologically sensitive Lake Pedder in South West Tasmania by the Hydro Electricity Commission. His photographs, along with those of his protégé, Peter Dombrovskis,[1] helped raise public awareness of the importance of the south-west Tasmania.
Lake Pedder from Frankland Range near Coronation Peak in the 1950s
Lake Pedder from Frankland Range near Coronation Peak in the 1950s

  • In 1958, Truchanas became the first person in recorded history to kayak the length of the dangerous Serpentine and Gordon Splits.
  • Most of Truchanas' early photographs were lost when his house was destroyed in the Hobart bushfire in 1967.
  • However, over the next five years, he substantially rebuilt his collection of photos of the Lake Pedder area. Though, as a clerk temporarily employed by the Hydro Electricity Commission, Truchanas was forbidden to speak about the increasing controversy surrounding the impending damming, his photographs began to play an important role in publicity for the campaign.
  • He was once quoted as stating "This vanishing world is beautiful beyond our dreams and contains in itself rewards and gratifications never found in an artificial landscape or man-made objects."
Truchanas and Dombrovskis' stories were depicted in a 2003 documentary, Wildness. In the same year, a tribute, The Forest of Stumps, by artist Geoff Parr, was exhibited at Hobart's Ten Days on the Island arts festival, including a number of Truchanas' photographs.
  • Some of his photographs have been turned into postage stamps by Australia Post, and a canoe used by Truchanas, and several other possessions, are part of the National Library of Australia's National Historical Collection.
Singer-songwriter Bruce Watson stated, in his song Olegas, "the Franklin runs today because of what [Truchanas] began."

Peter Dombrovskis's photograph of Rock Island bend
Peter Dombrovskis's photograph of Rock Island bend

Image: COURTESY ABC TV
August 19, 2003 
By Anna King Murdoch


Peter Dombrovskis's photograph of Rock Island bend, which was central to the Franklin River campaign.
"A new film examines the entwined lives of two Baltic photographers whose images spurred the conservation movement and helped save Tasmania's wilderness. By Anna King Murdoch.

  • When you go out there you don't get away from it all, you get back to it all. You come home to what's important. You come home to yourself.
    Peter Dombrovskis

"Scott Millwood was conscious of the great landscape photographers Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis for most of his life before making his film Wildness."
  • "With this one-hour documentary, which recently won the audience award for best documentary at the Sydney Film Festival, Millwood has exposed the epic story of two of Tasmania's major conservation heroes - a story hardly known outside Tasmania until now.
  • "The convergence of the two men's lives is almost incredible: both migrated from the ravaged Baltic states after the war, an experience that left their senses open to the pristine, peaceful beauty of their new country; one was a father figure to the other; both became such original and accomplished photographers that their images were used not only to inspire the establishment of a conservation movement in Tasmania and on the mainland but as a weapon in its cause.
  • "Both experienced a sense of terrible failure. The worst was the damming of Lake Pedder - "my Pedder", as Truchanas called the serene high lake with the white shore of which he took hundreds of photographs and which he fought so hard to save."

SG12. South West Tasmania Strathgordon, TAS, Australia

Described by the IUCN as "One of the last sizable areas in the temperate part of the world to retain its natural condition...One of the finest natural areas in the world". It is a UN Biosphere Reserve and one of the great remaining wilderness areas in the world. The last complete (undeveloped) temperate coast in the world.
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The south west has a great variety of spectacular landforms. It contains a very rich flora and fauna organised into such diverse ecosystems as sedgelands, temperate rainforests and high montane moorlands to alpine shrubberies and grasslands. The area is spectacular for its rugged scenery in a largely untouched wilderness area. Sarah (Settlement) Island penal colony in Macquarie Harbour. Aboriginal middens at Louisa Bay. Possible Aboriginal huts.
  • Registered on the Register of the National Estate

SG13. Western Tasmania Strathgordon, TAS, Australia

Western Tasmania is significant as an area of high wilderness quality and for its importance in maintaining existing natural processes (Criterion A.2). Due to its size and largely natural state, it is one of the last great temperate wilderness areas in Australia and one of few such areas in the southern hemisphere, and includes both forested and alpine wilderness. The area is thus highly significant for its wilderness values.
  • Western Tasmania is important for natural landscapes and undisturbed catchments. It is a large, relatively undisturbed area with topographic and catchment integrity where natural processes continue largely unmodified by human intervention (Criterion A.2).
  • It is large enough in area and has sufficient geological, landform, habitat and biological diversity to allow all natural ecosystem processes to continue undisturbed. It includes several undisturbed forested catchments, which are now rare in Australia.

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The area is thus important as a place for the maintenance of genetic diversity, continued natural evolution of the biota, and for scientific studies in physical and biotic cycles, including pedogenesis, karst formation, nutrient cycles, hydrology, plant succession, food chains etc. As such, the area is also significant as a benchmark area in which natural processes may be studied and as a baseline for ecosystem management.
  • Registered on tthe Register of the National Estate

  1. ^ http://www.discovertasmania.com.au/about/regions-of-tasmania/hobart-and-south/geeveston
  2. ^ https://huonview.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/kermandie-falls.html
  3. ^ http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p70181/pdf/book.pdf?referer=107
  4. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s978915.htm
  5. ^ http://dswaa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Issue-No.-9-Feb-2007.pdf
  6. ^ http://tasland.org.au/content/uploads/2015/06/Recherche-Bay-Management-Plan-2007.pdf
  7. ^ http://www.tassietrails.org/routesandtrails/mountain-bike/snug-tiers-grey-mountain-and-pelverata-falls

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