QUEENSTOWN is worth a visit, but not for normal reasons. Its infamous " lunar landscape " is chilling evidence of the devastation that single-minded commercial exploitation can wreak in such a sensitive environment. If you approach the town from Strahan you're confronted by the hideously ugly Mount Lyell Copper Mine ; from Hobart, the road winds down to the town around bare, reddish-brown rock. Queenstown has been a mining centre since 1883, when gold was discovered at Mount Lyell, and it looks like a typical mining town, with its wide streets, two-storey hotels and identical, pokey tin-roofed … more »
Queenstown is a town on the West Coast of the island of Tasmania, Australia... more »