%0 Journal Article
%T Around the Bend: The Curious Power of the Hills around Queenstown, Tasmania
%A Emily Bullock
%J Cultural Studies Review
%D 2012
%I UTS ePRESS
%X This article traces a concern with excess and waste, landscape and identity in a town on the western periphery of Tasmania.  Queenstown¡¯s bald hills have been a popular tourist drawcard since the turn of the century, sold in travel guides and brochures as a spectacular ¡®moonscape¡¯. A combination of a severe bushfire in 1896 and the emission of sulphurous gases from the pyritic smelting process at the Mt Lyell Copper Mine have resulted in Queenstown¡¯s weird denuded landscape. But the locals have grown attached to the hills and want to preserve their baldness.  Here, the impulse to preserve a grotesque landscape registers a culture surviving on desecration to stave off its own disappearance.
%U http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/1823