Expect the unexpected on this touring route that includes villages settled by Scots, World Heritage wilderness, ingenious railway engineering, and mining villainy. Lake St Clair is Australias deepest high altitude freshwater lake (167 metres), surrounded by mountains matching their legendary namesakes Achilles, Thetis, Ossa, Olympus and The Parthenon. Across the roof of Tasmania and the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, the road cuts through some of the largest remaining tracts of temperate rainforest in the world then spirals into Queenstown, with its compelling lunar landscape left by historic mining practices. Further on, the pretty fishing village of Strahan is dwarfed by vast Macquarie Harbour and is a gateway to the Gordon River.