1.6m hectares of wilderness. Give me more.

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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.

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Type Image Format JPG Size 17.3 MB Width 6016 px Height 4016 px Aspect 376:251 Brand Nikon Model D610 Exposure 14 mm f/5.6 1/640 s ISO 320 Software Adobe Lightroom Taken 21 August 2016 Coordinates -43.0954, 146.7230 Tint Black Submitted 7 March 2017