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	Arts Tasmania - Residencies - Lake St Clair National Park
		Arts Tasmania and the Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania have come together to offer the Lake St Clair National Park Natural and Cultural Residency for an individual or collaboration of practising artists working in any art form to develop their work in response to the natural environment of Tasmania.
		Lake St Clair National Park is a remote location and is primarily accessed by car, there is a bus that will drop you on the main road, however it is a 5 1/2km walk from the drop off point into the park and accommodation.
		Lake St Clair National Park is an isolated location, the nearest shops, police, medical help etc. are usually some travel time and may be difficult to access.
	www.arts.tas.gov.au /grants/program/residencies/lake_st_clair.htm (1493 words)

	St Clair Lake - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		St Clair Lake - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		St Clair, Lake, central North America, astride the border between south-eastern Michigan and southern Ontario.
		The nearly circular lake is 42 km (26...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /St_Clair_Lake.html (65 words)

	Lake St Clair - Derwent Bridge. Tasmania. Sweetwater Fishing Australia
		Lake St Clair is within the National Park area and a Parks entry permit is needed to access the waters here.
		The main lake is a clear, deep water with some of the most magnificent scenery in Tasmania however it is not recognized as a great trout water but has good beetle, polarizing and wind lane fishing during the summer months.
		It is part lake and part river where water from the main lake flows out over a shallow basin to form the headwater of the Derwent River.
	www.sweetwaterfishing.com.au /StClairTAS.htm (283 words)

	Exciting Australia Self Drive Vacation Tasmania's West Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Along the way you’ll pass though a World Heritage area, see beautiful Lake St. Clair - the deepest lake in Australia - and the rugged terrain of Cradle Mountain and the rainforests of the south.
		This region is part of the Tasmania World Heritage Area and consists of rugged mountains, alpine heartlands, ancient rainforest and glacial lakes.
		Lake St. Clair is Australia’s deepest lake carved out by glaciers from the Ice Age, and is the perfect setting for a boat tour.
	www.freshtracksaustralia.com /drive/tasmania-west.shtml (898 words)

	Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair, Tasmania
		Despite its distance from the rest of the world, and although it is a lightly settled place (the population is 475,000), the island has shown up repeatedly as a focal point for some of the most bitterly fought clashes anywhere on the globe between environmentalists and developers.
		Although it is less than 1% the size of the nation as a whole, Tasmania possesses half of the country’s hydroelectric potential, much of it from powerful, free-flowing rivers that surge through the island’s rugged western half.
		To reach Lake St. Clair at the southern end of the park, hikers often start from Cradle Mountain and trek the rugged 52-mile Overland Track, Australia’s oldest and most famous hiking trail.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Parks/Archives/Tasmania.htm (883 words)

	Tasmania travel guide - Wikitravel
		Tasmania [1], once known as the "Apple Isle", is the smallest of Australia's states and is located off the south eastern tip of the mainland.
		Tasmania was settled by the British as a penal colony and convicts were first transported to what was then called Van Diemen's Land, in 1804.
		Tasmania is served by several boats from mainland Australia, departing from Sydney and Melbourne.
	wikitravel.org /en/Tasmania (810 words)

	A brief description, photos and links
		Your discovery of Tasmania should be measured less by distance and more by time; by experiences immensely varied, yet always close at hand.With less than one per cent of the land surface of Australia and nowhere more than 115 kilometres from the sea, Tasmania's varied landscape is unrestrained by size.
		These are Tasmania's midlands, legacy of a British colonial heritage and a green-belt of history stretching from north to south.
		It is Tasmania's sun coast, edged by crystal blue waters and clusters of holiday homes that have tied generations of families to annual bouts of rest and recreation.
	members.tripod.com /~tassiedevil/tasmania.htm (370 words)

	AusEmade: Cradle Mountain National Park Information and Attractions, Tasmania (TAS), Australia
		Platypus are also often sighted at Lake St Clair, although visitors have been known to mistake the native water rat that also swims across the lake, for the elusive platypus.
		Lake St Clair • Is at the southern end of the Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park.
		Lake St Clair is also known by its Aboriginal name of Leeawuleena which means "sleeping water." It is at Lake St Clair that the Overland Track ends in the south.
	www.ausemade.com.au /tas/destination/c/cradle-mountain-lake-st-clair-national-park.htm (961 words)

	Lake St Clair
		A pantheon of dolerite mountains – Mt Olympus, Mt Orthys, Mt Byron and Mt Ida surround Lake St Clair; at the southern end is a drowned moraine – the tumbled rock remains after the glaciations.
		Lake St Clair – at the southern end of the park – is the deepest lake in Australia and the headwaters of the Derwent River.
		Lake St Clair is at the southern end of the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park.
	www.about-australia.com /tasmania/derwent-valley-highlands/destinations/lake-st-clair (453 words)

	Tasmania Central Portal - Lake St Clair
		Lake St Clair is at the southern end of the world famous Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park and is part of the Western Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
		Carved out by ice during several glaciations over the last two million years, this is the deepest lake in Australia and the headwaters of the Derwent River.
		Today Lake St Clair offers visitors a range of activities ranging from short to overnight bushwalks, canoeing, wildlife watching and trout fishing.
	www.tasmaniacentral.tas.gov.au /site/page.cfm?u=283 (250 words)

	Tasmania - Leeawuleena (Lake St Clair) National Park
		Lake St Clair National Park is at the southern end of the world famous Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park and is part of the Tasmanian World Heritage Area which covers a significant proportion of the South West and Central Highlands of the state.
		Now because the lake was so highly regarded, in 1885 the government, and probably why it was one of the first conservation moves of the Tasmanian government, they reserved around the lake from purchase, because they knew that this was a very special place and that it needed to be protected.
		At that time there was very little known about the hinterland of Tasmania, and there was interest in knowing what was to the west, and Frankland was one of a number of surveys around at that time who were trying to probe the western reaches of Tasmania.
	abc.net.au /rn/features/walkpark/prog10.htm (4891 words)

	Lakeside St. Clair Lodge, Hotel on Tasmania on Lake St.Clair
		Lake St. Clair stretches over 17 Kilometres into the heart of Tasmania's World Heritage Area.
		The lake is ringed by mountain ranges, dominated by Mt Olympus - at 1447 metres - and forested to the shoreline with sassafras, myrtle, native pines and beeches and a whole range of endemic alpine flora.
		Lake St. Clair is world renowned for its walks.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/tasmania/hotels/tas_lakesinclair_wr.html (419 words)

	Cradle.Mt-Lk.St.Clair
		Lake St Clair on the south-east side of the park is the main attraction and starting point for Tasmania's most famous walk, the 80km Cradle Mountain track.
		At its northern end, Dove Lake, backed by the jagged outline of Cradle Mountain, is one of the state’s most breathtaking sights, and at the park’s southern end, Lake St Clair is the country’s deepest freshwater lake at over 200m, occupying a basin gouged out by two glaciers.
		Between Cradle Mountain and Lake St Clair, the eighty-kilometre Overland Track, attracting walkers from all over the world, is the best way to take in the stunning scenery – spread over five or more mud- and leech-filled days of physical, albeit exhilarating, exhaustion.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/tasmania/cradlemountain.asp (460 words)

	Tasmanian Hiker Tasmania walking holiday
		Tasmania is a small island state off the south coast of the Australian mainland.
		Tasmania is noted for its apples, berries, cheeses and smoked salmon.
		At Lake St Clair, we’ll learn about the vegetation in the cool temperate rainforest, sedge and button grass plains and snowgums forest in the region.
	www.auswalk.com.au /tasmanian-hiker-tasmania-walking-holiday.html (1012 words)

	Lake St Clair (Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park)
		Lake St Clair is at the southern end of the world famous Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park and is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
		Carved out by ice during several glaciations over the last two million years, this is the deepest lake in Australia and the headwaters of the Derwent River, upon which the capital city of Tasmania is located.
		Lake St Clair is also the end point of the famous Overland Track, a long-distance walk which runs from Cradle Mountain in the north to Cynthia Bay on the southern shore of Lake St Clair.
	www.parks.tas.gov.au /natparks/stclair (200 words)

	The Squatley Log - Tasmania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tall rocky mountains, clear mountain lakes carved by the last ice age, rain forests with great old eucalyptus trees, King A Billy pine, southern beech trees, Pencil pine, thick moss and colorful lichen, heath lands and button grass plains and plenty of wildlife.
		Tasmania is already a thing of the past and we are on the road again trying to go to Canberra today, where we have the very pleasant surprise of meeting up with Annie and Mary O'Dowd, who are here from Hawaii to visit Annie's mother.
		There we had to set up the tent in the rain, but by next morning it was pretty nice again and we enjoyed another 2-hour hike to some great waterfalls, through a small stand of giant swamp gums and along creeks where we saw a few small trout.
	www.stormbefore.com /squatley/log0298.html (2896 words)

	Lake St Clair — IFS Portal
		Lake St Clair is a long, narrow natural lake with crystal clear waters that reach a maximum depth of 174m, making it one of Australia’s deepest lakes.
		At the south-eastern end of the main lake is St Clair Lagoon that is separated from the lake by a small dam.
		The best fly fishing however, occurs at St Clair Lagoon with all facets of the sport available at different times, depending on the time in the season and water levels.
	www.ifs.tas.gov.au /ifs/IFSDatabaseManager/WatersDatabase/lake-st-clair (389 words)

	Derwent Bridge - Tasmania - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		Beside Lake St Clair is a large and informative board which provides a very detailed history of the area from the settlement of the area by Aborigines through the early explorations by Europeans and the eventual opening up of the area by tourism and the Tasmanian HEC.
		There are several short walks available at the southern end of Lake St Clair ranging from a 30-40 minute walk up to a 7 hour round trip to Mt Rufus.
		One of the great attractions of the area around Lake St Clair is the fact that there seem to be dozens of Bennets wallabies in the area.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Tasmania/Derwent-Bridge/2005/02/17/1108500205725.html (628 words)

	Impressions of Tasmania Australia's island state makes for a wonderful winter vacation
		Tasmania also has wonderful scallops, with the orange tails still attached, mussels, very good salmon, and other fish you have never heard of.
		Throughout Tasmania, the dominant tree is the gum or eucalypt.
		Tasmania has lots of other species of trees not found in the Northern Hemisphere, including the King Billy pine and the Celery-top pine, neither of which is a true pine.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/FEB2005/Tasmania_Winter.htm (1194 words)

	Lake Saint Clair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are a number of lakes named Lake Saint Clair or Lake St Clair.
		Lake Saint Clair (North America), part of the Great Lakes system and lying between Ontario and Michigan
		Lake Saint Clair (Arizona), a reservoir built in 1974
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Saint_Clair (111 words)

	Tasmania, Australia, information and accommodationo
		Compared to the rest of Australia, Tasmania's diminutive size is one of its attractions since it is possible to see much of the island in a few days.
		Tasmania has rugged mountains, river networks, trout fishing, unspoilt wilderness landscapes, a gorgeous un-spoilt coastline, quaint cosy cottages and being a former penal colony, plenty of history.
		The Lake St Clair National Park which includes Cradle Mountain is perhaps the most well known of the natural landmarks in Tasmania.
	www.auinfo.com /tasmania.htm (529 words)

	Lake St Clair - Discover Tasmania
		This lake is the deepest in Australia (190 metres / 623 feet), scooped out by glaciers 10,000 years ago during the Ice Age.
		The lake, in which fishing and boating are allowed, is surrounded by forest and is the southern gateway to the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park.
		There is a regular ferry the length of the lake, used by visitors and by walkers on the Overland Track who like to do a little of the journey by water.
	www.discovertasmania.com.au /home/index.cfm?SiteID=401 (207 words)

	Lake St Clair, South - Check-in.com.au
		Lake St Clair, Cradle Mt - Lake St Clair National Park
		This is the destination description for Lake St Clair
		Harringtons 102 is an ultra modern tourist accommodation facility located in Hobart's central business district with easy access to the city and all major tourist attractions, and is also suited to the business person requiring accommodation close to...
	www.check-in.com.au /South/Lake_St_Clair.htm (448 words)

	Cradle Mountain/Lake St Clair National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lake St Clair is the southern end of the famous Overland Track which links to Cradle Mountain.
		There are many other excellent walks around Lake St Clair, varying from 1-7 hours duration depending on choice of tracks.
		Lake St Clair is also the centre of one of Tasmania's finest trout fishing locations, where you can cast a lure or fly and catch a trout in a nearby stream or lake.
	www.tasmaniasouth.com /rivers/cradle_np.html (343 words)

	Craclair Tours - Cradle country, Yacht Cruise and Lake St. Clair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Start your trip at Cradle Mountain at the northern end of Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park.
		Be amazed by spectacular roads that wind through this stunning country as we journey to Lake St Clair in the center of Tasmania.
		Our return to Launceston passes through the land of 3000 lakes – all of them home to the wily trout.
	www.southcom.com.au /~craclair/cradlewest_6days.HTM (309 words)

	Cradle Mountain History - Tourism Tasmania Australia
		Nothofagus Gunnii which is commonly called Fagus, is the only native deciduous tree in Australia and its leaves change colour in autumn, usually at the end of April to gold, orange and to deep red before falling.
		Crater Lake is 60 metres deep and was named in 1905 for its resemblance to a volcanic crater.
		In 1909 Weindorfer and Charlie Sutton camped at Dove Lake and on the 4th of January 1910 Gustav, Kate and Ronnie Smith climbed Cradle Mountain.
	www.cradlehighlander.com.au /cradle-mountain-history.html (549 words)

	Lake St Clair, Tasmania, Australia, Jasons Travel Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lake St Clair is considered one of the prettiest spots in Tasmania, and is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
		This beautiful lake, ringed by the magical mountains Rufus, Olympus and Ida, is Australia's deepest lake (167m) and very cold.
		The excellent visitor centre at Cynthia Bay has interpretative displays of the geology of the region, a video on glaciers, and a giant hologram of a family of thylacines (Tasmanian tigers).
	www.jasons.com /000850,,,,,PG,1,0.MEL?SHOWMAP=TRUE (234 words)

	TASMANIA
		Tasmania is arguably the trout fishing capitol of Australia.
		Althought the salmon failed to acclimatise, the handfull of brown trout which were reared and released thrived in the Tasmanian environment and their progeny were later used to atock the waters of other States of Australia and of New Zealand.
		St Marys Rivulet for 180 metres on either side of the Main Road Bridge in St Marys.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~kamosida/TASeng.htm (702 words)

	Cradle Mountain (Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park)
		Cradle Mountain forms the northern end of the wild Cradle Mt - Lake St Clair National Park, itself a part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
		Icy streams cascading out of rugged mountains, stands of ancient pines mirrored in the still waters of glacial lakes and a wealth of wildlife ensure there is always something to captivate you.
		Cradle is the starting point for the world-famous Overland Track, a magnificent 6 day walk that will take you through the heart of some of the finest mountain terrain.
	www.parks.tas.gov.au /natparks/cradle/index.html (223 words)

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