Archive for November 22nd, 2006
The Story of Wielangta: How Environmentalists Mistake ‘A Timber Town That Disappeared’ for Pristine Wilderness
Posted by jennifer, November 22nd, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Forestry, Mining
Comments: 56
There is a lot of forest in Tasmania.
In the south east of the island, there was once a thriving timber town known as Wielangta. In its heyday it had a general store, bakery, blacksmiths’ shops, a school and of course several saw mills.
Wielangta was ravaged by bushfires in the 1920s and abandoned in 1928.
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