Australia’s first vines were planted in Tasmania back in the 1820s. Vine cuttings from colonial Van Diemen’s Land were used to establish the first vineyards planted in Victoria and South Australia in the 1830s.
The dominant rainforest species are eucalypts, including the tallest stands of hardwood in the Southern Hemisphere and the biggest white gum in the world (89 metres tall and 10 metres around).
