Major upgrades are underway at Maria Island, but many visitors don't want the popular Tasmanian destination to change to ...
“It’s a bit warm for the wombats, mate,” an Aussie hiker lamented when we crossed paths at a coastal headland on Maria Island, a wild and mountainous speck in Australia’s southernmost state, Tasmania.
A Tasmanian paradise, Maria Island, could fall victim to its own success with visitor numbers exploding in just five years, leading to environmental damage concerns. Visitors to Maria Island have ...
Visitors to Maria Island have almost doubled since 2019-20 — the most of any Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service-managed park in the state — going from 38,000 to a record-breaking 74,000 in 2024-25.