Tasmanian Wilderness

Tasmanian Wilderness is a spectacular place to visit in Australia. It is one of the largest temperate wilderness areas remaining in the Southern Hemisphere. It was enrolled on the World Heritage List last 1982 and in 1989. Started May 2007, Tasmanian Wilderness becomes one of the destinations for foreigners. The area of Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage covers approximately 1.38 million hectares and contains almost twenty percent of the area of Tasmania. In this island, you can see the deepest and longest caves in Australia. And since this is Australia, you are going to expect a wide variety of flora and some of the longest lived trees and tallest flowering plants in the world only found in this area. The Tasmanian Wilderness is made up of different parks and other reserves: * Cradle Mountain * Lake St Clair * Southwest National Park * Wild Rivers National Park * Hartz Mountains * Mole Creek Karst National Park (part) * Walls of Jerusalem National Park * Central Plateau Conservation Area * Devils Gullet State Reserve * Liffey Falls State Reserve (part)