Tour boat on lower Gordon River

The entire course of the Gordon River is an uninhabited wilderness area. The differentiation between the Upper Gordon River catchment and the Lower Gordon River was made by what were considered impassable gorges. Olegas Truchanos was one who was able to travel through these.

Upper Gordon River

Reflections of the forest on the Gordon River

Gordon Splits

See also article Gordon Splits

Lower Gordon River

The "weak tea" coloured water of the Gordon River

The lower part of the Gordon River is part of the World Heritage area and contains a cold-climate rainforest and rare trees. As with many rivers in western Tasmania, the water is fresh and drinkable, but has the colour of weak tea due to the absorption of tannin from button grass growing in the catchment area.

Boat excursions to the lower Gordon River from Macquarie Harbour are popular with tourists in Strahan.

See also

• Gordon Splits
• Franklin River
• King River, Tasmania

References

• Flanagan, Richard, A terrible beauty : history of the Gordon River country Richmond, Vic. : Greenhouse, 1985. ISBN 0-86436-001-0
• Garry Kerr and Hary McDermott The Huon Pine Story (The History of Harvest and Use of a unique Timber), Portland, Victoria, Mainsail Books, 2000, ISBN 0957791704

Further reading

• Gee, H and Fenton, J. (Eds) (1978) The South West Book - A Tasmanian Wilderness Melbourne, Australian Conservation Foundation. ISBN 0-85802-054-8
• Lines, William J. (2006) Patriots : defending Australia's natural heritage St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2006. ISBN 0-70223-554-7
• Neilson, D. (1975) South West Tasmania - A land of the Wild. Adelaide. Rigby. ISBN 0-85179-874-8

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