NYT: Tasmania Is Out of This World Excerpt from New York Times Article: Tasmania Is Out of This World https://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/travel/tmagazine/19tasmania.html Tasmania, said to be the world’s most mountainous island and perhaps also its rainiest, is a wind-lashed, wave-carved atoll, the Southern Hemisphere’s last terrestrial gasp before it sinks into the Southern Ocean. In the southwest corner of this dense, drenched island lies Tasmania’s wildest region: hundreds of miles of steep dolerite cliffs, cool dripping rain forest and glacial valleys virtually untouched since the last ice age. The highest peak in this ancient wilderness is a denuded, boulder-strewn uplift called Mount Anne, where not far below the summit a small stone hut offers shelter for hikers caught in the sudden, violent storms that rake this open ridge and give Tasmania’s southwest its unforgettable sobriquet: “Hell without the fire.” MY COMMENT: Wooly Wombats - LOL To download the Times Reader, click here. Published with BlogMailr Comments Anonymous January 11, 2007 PingBack from http://blog.mrees.biz/myblog/?p=137 Additional resources Last updated on 2006-11-24