Join us in launching the Spero-Wanderer Wilderness Book
The Spero-Wanderer Wilderness is a unique and incredible region located in the highly remote south-west of the island, south of Macquarie Harbour. This beautiful, wild and rugged place is home to some of the most vast and isolated landscapes outside the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Extensive buttongrass plains, lush rainforests alongside tannin rich and free-flowing rivers, coastlines with extraordinarily diverse geology, and mountain peaks of gorgeous alpine flora. The ‘Spero-Wanderer’ has it all.
Areas adjacent to this spectacular area have been listed as World Heritage for their beaches, headlands, cliffs, islets, coves, lagoons and estuaries. Despite these incredible natural values, mining exploration drilling and licences cover most of the Spero-Wanderer. Since 2023, the Wilderness Society has run regular expeditions of up to 10 people to explore the coast and hinterland, documenting and photographing the area’s landforms and lifeforms. This is the latest chapter in what has been a 50-year effort to gain World Heritage status for the area.
Photographically, however, no publications have done justice to the natural beauty of the Spero-Wanderer region, the area having had few visits from dedicated wilderness photographers until recently. This book aims to address that shortcoming. Several long photographic outings to the Spero-Wanderer have now been made by photographers such as Grant Dixon, whose images feature prominently here. They help bring the beauty of the area’s coastal features, rainforests, moorlands and threatened species to wider public attention. In doing so, they strengthen an already compelling case for the addition of the Spero-Wanderer area to the adjacent Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
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