Alone Australia · Alone Australia — Season 1
South West Tasmania
Ancient temperate rainforest at the bottom of the world — myrtle beech, tannin rivers, and rain measured in weeks.
Tasmania, Australia
Where on earth
Satellite imagery flying in from a world view to South West Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia.
- Biome
- Cool temperate rainforest
- Rainfall
- 2,000–3,500 mm / year
- Winter lows
- -2 to 5 °C
- Key food
- Freshwater crayfish, eel, possum, wallaby
- Big predators
- Devil (small), quoll — no apex mammals
The country
South West Tasmania is one of the wettest, least-touched wilderness zones on Earth. Ancient Gondwanan forest — myrtle beech, celery-top pine, man-fern — sits over a floor of moss, ferns, and tannin creeks. Weather is Roaring Forties weather: constant fronts, high humidity, low temperatures.
Why the show came here
It gave Alone Australia its identity: no apex predators to fear, but a rainforest so wet that fire, dry gear, and shelter geometry become the dominant survival problems. Food is present but harder-won than in the salmon-rich Alone (US) sites.
Planner-relevant notes
Waterproofing everything is the first priority. Fire lift-off requires split standing-dead and fatwood analogues (huon pine, celery-top). Trapping (freshwater crayfish, possum) outperforms hunting here.
Field notes
- Leeches love this country — expect them daily, not occasionally.
- Freshwater crayfish traps are legal in-show and near-guaranteed protein.
- Never underestimate rainforest cold — 3 °C and soaked kills as fast as -20 dry.