Open for ideas Mt Donaldson …like Corinna Wilderness Experience The Corinna Wilderness Today it includes a range of The Corinna Wilderness Experience has Experience is an escape from accommodation types and the Tarkine achieved both EarthCheck Assessed and mass tourism to one of the most Hotel (tavern) where the Tannin Advanced Accreditation under the Eco remote and beautiful parts of the Restaurant is a focal point for the Corinna Tourism Australia rating system. For more world: the Pieman River State community. It’s also the springboard for a information www.corrinna.com.au Reserve in Tasmania’s picturesque journey to Pieman Heads on the historic Huon pine cruiser, Arcadia II. Visitors can north-west. hire a kayak for an intimate exploration of The Experience is set among pristine the jaw-dropping surrounds. There is also rainforest on the banks of the Pieman a range of fishing, bird-watching and other River. Corinna is placed in Tasmania’s nature experiences. history as a unique example of a remote Corinna is powered by an eco-friendly mining town that has not just survived solar system with back-up generators. It has but also evolved into a truly quintessential pure rainwater and all waste is removed Tasmanian experience. from site. It is accessible by normal motor vehicles with the town reached from the south by crossing the Pieman River on the legendary Fatman barge. Tarkine hotel Ta smanian Government The Pieman River State Our investment in the Pieman Reserve. River State Reserve. Declared in 1936, this long, thin reserve “Offering our guests protects magnificent riverside rainforests of Huon pine. It extends along both sides the opportunity to Aboriginal cultural living place – Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area 2014, credit Jillian Mundy of the Pieman River from the Reece Dam explore the Pieman at the base of Lake Pieman to the Pieman Heads in Hardwicke Bay, where the river river and Tarkine empties into the Southern Ocean. The tiny Wilderness, with hamlet of Corinna is halfway along the reserve. minimal impact on our The nearby Arthur-Pieman Conservation fragile surrounds, gives Area protects more than 100,000 hectares us great pride in our of the wild and beautiful north-west coast work.” of Tasmania between the Arthur River in Arcadia on the move the north and the Pieman River in the Euan Wiseman south. Along with other reserved and General Manager unreserved land, it forms part of the larger Corinna Wilderness Experience area known as the Tarkine and Corinna sits at its southern end. Corinna was inhabited by white settlers in 1881 and proclaimed a town in 1894, following a flood of people coming to the area in pursuit of gold. Before that, the Tarkiner people made Corinna and the nearby Tarkine areas their home for 30,000 years. In fact, Corinna is the aboriginal name for a young Tasmanian tiger. Eco retreat now 2 years on Tourism investment opportunities in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, national parks and reserves. Tasmania is open for ideas; for new tourism enterprises, for fresh thinking, and for innovative and compelling investment propositions for sensitive and appropriate development which allow visitors to Gold panning enjoy the State’s unique environment and support our economy and communities. 10922BL For more information on tourism investment in Tasmania’s national parks and reserves, and the Tasmanian Corinna Wilderness World Heritage Area, visit Wilderness Experience www.investtasmania.com.au or email TASMANIA [email protected] All photos by Corinna Wilderness Experience unless otherwise noted.