The Tarkine

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The Tarkine is a remote area in the north west of Tasmania.

Its landscape is varied, from rugged rocky shores to vast dune fields cut by tannin creeks (Interview River), to stunning temperate rainforest that has been largely untouched for thousands of years (the biggest stretch of temperate rainforest in Australia, the second largest in the southern hemisphere).

It also contains a great number of historical Aboriginal sites and an abundant wildlife, including some of the last healthy populations of Tasmanian Devils.

You can learn more about the Tarkine Wikipedia and on Save the Tarkine website.

Rivers of Fog in the Tarkine

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Save the Tarkine video

Beautiful video of the Tarkine.
Cinematography : Joe Shemesh, David Warth, Dan Broun
Music: Christina Christensen

Sunset over the Tarkine from the Road to Nowhere

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Giant myrtles

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"I was just given an understanding"... Geoff King

Geoff King was a pioneer of conservation in the north-west. He established Kings Run Wildlife Tours which he ran on his spectacular coastal property near Arthur River.He died in 2013.

Tarkine book

Stunning book by Chris Bell

"The Tarkine in Tasmania’s northwest is one of Australia’s most outstanding natural areas. A combination of subtlety and grandeur, the Tarkine encompasses a wide variety of landscapes from jagged coastal headlands to extensive dunefields, plains and woodlands; it is also dominated by the largest expanse of temperate rainforest in Australia. Much of the Tarkine is still wilderness, a class of land that is rapidly being destroyed worldwide. In this book Chris Bell celebrates the Tarkine through his photos of this remarkable area."

Hardback, 120 pages, 76 photos and a 10 000 word text.

Sold by Wild Island Tasmania