South Coast Track
Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox hiking trail The South Coast Track is a bushwalking track located in the South Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. The Script error: No such module "convert". track traverses remote wilderness within the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site, and is managed as a wilderness walk. The Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service recommend that experienced bushwalkers can take six-to-eight days to cover the track in one direction.[1]
The track follows the wild southern coastline of Tasmania. It crosses two mountain ranges to avoid sections of impassable coastline and also crosses long sections of open plains behind the coastline. It only follows the coast itself where there are beaches.[2] The track may be combined with the Port Davey Track as a long continuous trek requiring around eight to fourteen days.
Features and location
From the isolated locality of Template:TAScity in the west, the track trailhead is located where the track adjoins the southern terminus of the South Coast Track at the Melaleuca Visitor Services Site[3]Template:Rp of the Parks & Wildlife Service (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".). From this point the track heads south towards Cox Bight, and then east to the Louisa River. Continuing east and after crossing the Ironbound Range, the track reaches Deadmans Bay and then to Prion Beach, requiring a boat crossing of a narrow ocean inlet. Continuing further east by south, the track reaches Granite Beach and then South Cape Rivulet within South Cape Bay. From this point, the track heads east by north to Template:TAScity where it reaches its eastern terminus (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).
Most walkers fly into Melaleuca and walk out to avoid being trapped there without food in poor weather.
See also
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References
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