Who owns the woolnorth property?
The owner of Van Dairy, Chinese billionaire Xianfeng Lu, bought Woolnorth in 2016 for $280 million. Earlier this year, Melbourne-based investment group Prime Value Asset Management paid $62.5 million for 11 surplus dairy farms across 2200ha outside Woolnorth from Van Dairy. The price included 5000 cows and yearlings.
Can you drive Cape Grim?
Cape Grim is a 2 hr 40-min drive (179 km) from Devonport.
Where is Cape Grim Australia?
Tasmania
Cape Grim is on the north-western most tip of the Tasmanian mainland and hosts the world’s most pure air. Tasmania is renowned for its pristine wilderness but you might not know it’s home to the purest air on earth.
How big is woolnorth?
Woolnorth today is Australia’s biggest dairy operation! You explore the historic precinct of the 22,000-hectare property on a guided tour, taking in the old farm buildings. Your tour shows some of the dairy operations where almost 1000 hectares have been converted from beef grazing.
Who owns Tasmanian dairy farms?
In 2016, New Zealand’s Tasmanian Land Company (TLC) controversially sold the Van Diemen’s Land Company to the Chinese-owned Van Dairy Group in 2016 for $280 million.
Does Tasmania sell air?
The air is so clean in fact, that the region bottles and sells its air and water as a counterpoint for areas impacted by heavy pollution. But even the cleanest air from the southwest is starting to change — pollution from winds that blow in from other major cities can be detected at the facility.
How much does China own in Tasmania?
There is no publicly available figure for how much land Chinese investors own in Tasmania, but nationally the figure is 9,169,000 hectares.
Does anyone live on King Island?
There are only 1600 people living on the island “and we all know each other”, explains tour guide Matthew Archer, a fifth-generation local. “Once the tourists have been here a few days, they all wave, too.”
Are there snakes on King Island?
King Island has a relatively low diversity of reptiles compared to the Australian mainland. It is home to only nine reptile species, comprising three species of snakes and six of lizards (Donaghey 2003).