Environmental devastation around Queenstown, Tasmania.
A view of the landscape around the mining town of Queenstown, Tasmania, stripped and eroded by over 100 years of mining activity. These once-heavily forested hills were stripped bare in the 1890s 1900s to provide wood for smelting furnaces. The landscape still bears the scars. An environmental disaster area. A solitary human figure on the road gives a sense of scale.
Size: 5328px × 3543px
Location: Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia
Photo credit: © Alistair Scott / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: Yes
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