Coordinates: 43°25′19.2″S 146°9′46.

8″E

Melaleuca, Tasmania
Melaleuca is a remote locality (former settlement) in the south-west area of
Melaleuca
Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmania
Access is only by sea viaPort Davey, by air[1] or by foot.

The locality now consists of a couple of buildings and a bird hide where the
orange-bellied parrot can be viewed, and is a tourist attraction. Melaleuca
has a gravel airstrip which is used by small aircraft which service hiking
needs and which bring tourists to the remote South West Wilderness region
of the state. Two hiking trails meet at Melaleuca: the Port Davey Track and
the South Coast Track.

From the 1930s until the area gained World Heritage status, Melaleuca had
been the location leased for mining ventures.[2]
A tourist plane prepares for take-off from
Melaleuca.

Looking west from Melaleuca to the Bathurst Range

Melaleuca
Deny King
From 1936 until his death in 1991, Melaleuca was home to tin miner Deny Coordinates 43°25′19.2″S
King who discovered the extinct shrub,Banksia kingii as well as a species of 146°9′46.8″E
eyebright, Euphrasia kingii and the endangered King's lomatia or King's Population 5 (?)
holly, Lomatia tasmanica. King also built the walkers' accommodation and
Postcode(s) none
airstrip and in 1975 was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his
services to the community.[3] LGA(s) Huon Valley Council
State Franklin

References electorate(s)
Federal Franklin
1. "Visitors Guide to Tasmania's National Parks - Southwest
Division(s)
National Park" (http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/natparks/southwest/i
ndex.html). Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. Retrieved
2007-03-12.
 2. King, C.D. and Fenton, J.Small Mining Settlements; pp. 48-53 in
Gee, Helen and Fenton, Janet (eds) (1978)The South West
Book : A Tasmanian Wilderness. Hawthorn, Vic: Australian
Conservation Foundation.ISBN 0-85802-054-8; later edition,
same title (1983) Sydney, NSW: William Collins Pty. Ltd., ISBN 0-
00-217305-0; also Thwaites, J.B., King of the South-West (Jack
King, tin miner at Melaleuca) pp. 57-60; also Mattingley
, C. King
of the Wilderness (2001) ISBN 1-877008-41-9
3. "King, Charles Dennison"(http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honour
s/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=885540&search_type=s
imple&showInd=true). It's an Honour. Australian Government.

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