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The Wentworth Hills

Bob.Brown.Foundation

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www.bobbrown.org.au

The Wentworth Hills, outliers of Tasmania’s Central Highlands, are as familiar to bushwalkers as black swans were to Tchaikovski or humility is to Donald Trump. Lake Knight is perched 1,100m up in these ‘hills’, a stone’s throw south of Derwent Bridge. There are no tracks, no introduced trout, no huts and, because it is not yet a protected area, no commercial lodge proposals.

Lake Knight has ancient pencil pines

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