Environmental devastation around Queenstown, Tasmania.

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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 and 1900s to provide wood for the mines’ smelting furnaces. The landscape still bears the scars. An environmental disaster area. Part of Queenstown can be seen in the background.

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Size: 5328px × 3543px
Location: Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia
Photo credit: © Alistair Scott / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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