Sprawling across the northwestern tip of Tasmania, 25km from Smithton, is the 220-sq-km cattle and sheep property of Woolnorth, still a holding of the Van Diemen’s Land company two centuries after it began. Today it’s also home to enormous wind turbines that harness the power of the Roaring Forties. You can view them up close with Woolnorth Tours , which offers informative half-day tours (adult/child $90/50).
The tours visit Cape Grim, the Woolnorth property and a shipwreck off Woolnorth Point, weather permitting. Take deep lungfuls of the air here: the Baseline Air Pollution Station off Cape Grim declares this to be the cleanest air in the world.
