The gateway to the West

Maeve McKenna
June 23 2019 - 6:00am
Experience: The West Coast Wilderness Railway, Tasmania is a reconstruction of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company railway. Picture: Tourism Tasmania & Nick Osborne
Experience: The West Coast Wilderness Railway, Tasmania is a reconstruction of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company railway. Picture: Tourism Tasmania & Nick Osborne

Queenstown, the largest town on Tasmania's West Coast, is surrounded by dramatic hills and mountains and was once the world's richest mining town. The copper mining and mass logging in the early 1900s created a surreal and rocky 'moonscape' of bare coloured conglomerate.

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Maeve McKenna

Maeve McKenna

Features & Special Publications Journalist

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