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Australia's island state and one of the world's last great wildernesses — the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area covers 20% of the island. Cradle Mountain–Lake St Clair frames the Overland Track (the country's premier long-distance hike), Wineglass Bay's perfect crescent in Freycinet is the headline beach, and the Bay of Fires lights up orange-lichened granite at sunrise. Hobart's MONA is the most provocative private museum in the southern hemisphere; the Port Arthur penal colony (UNESCO) is Australia's most powerful convict-history site. The air here is among the cleanest measured anywhere on Earth.