kunanyi
A wild mountain
kunanyi is a wild mountain, rich in wildlife and superb natural features, that rises 1271m above the city of Hobart
kunanyi - Mt Wellington
A stately Mountain
kunanyi, also known as Mt Wellington, is the stately wild mountain that rises 1271 metres above the city of Hobart.
kunanyi is a wild mountain landscape, whose slopes are blanketed in Eucalyptus forests with rainforest understory, rising to the spectacular dolerite columns of the ‘Organ Pipes’, and then levelling off to a table like highland plateau. Other superb landscape features include the ‘Lost World’, a number of beautiful waterfalls, and interesting rock projections such as Cathedral rock, Collins Cap, or ‘Sleeping Beauty’.
The West Wellington range west of kunanyi is a forested range that connects the wildness of the mountain westwards to the remote wilderness of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage area. Eastwards, finger like projections of wildness, the forested slopes of kunanyi, reach right into the heart of Hobart, the nature capital of Australia.
kunanyi wildlife
Wildlife on kunanyi and the West Wellington range include the Endangered Tasmanian Devil, the Bennetts Wallaby and Tasmanian Pademelon, Ring and Brush-Tailed Possums, Boobook Owls, Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoos and the sublime Pink Robin.
Conserving kunanyi
Conservation challenges for kunanyi include the presence of logging on the forested slopes of the West Wellington range, the increased risk of catastrophic wildfires from global warming, and a proposed large cable car development up the slopes of the mountain near the iconic organ pipes and proposed associated large footprint development of restaurants and buildings on the top of the mountain.
Conservation organisations working to conserve kunanyi include the Tasmanian Conservation Trust, Tasmania’s oldest conservation organisation: https://www.tasconservation.org.au and the ‘Residents opposed to the Cable Car’, a community group working to stop the development of a Cable Car on kunanyi: https://kunanyinocablecar.org
kunanyi field guide coming soon
A comprehensive field guide to the natural values, walks and ways to connect with kunanyi is under construction and coming soon