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Keith
Corbett

Keith Corbett is a Tasmanian-born geologist who has spent most of his life working in the state’s mountains. This has included a PhD study of the Denison Range in the South-West, and a masters study of the Mt Lyell Mine area. His interests since retiring include showing people interesting geological places, and working with others to develop walking tracks around Queenstown.

Environment

Two men of Queenstown

by Keith Corbett

25 Sep 2022

Queenstown is an odd place to most people ...

Environment

Bush blocks: English style and Tasmanian style

by Keith Corbett

28 Oct 2021

Richard Fortey is one of my favourite authors. An eminent British geologist and television presenter, he has appeared with David Attenborough, and written a number of best-selling books on geology. But his latest book is different. Called The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature From a Small Wood, it concerns the small block of beech forest he was able to buy in the Chiltern Hills, west of London, and the interest and pleasure he has gained from it. Reading his account, I was struck by the extraordinary similarities and contrasts with my own family’s experiences of owning a bush block in Tasmania, near Cradle Mountain, and how these differences and similarities reflected so much about our land, our history and our people.

TASMANIAN VOICES

Bush blocks – English style and Tasmanian style

by Keith Corbett

01 Jul 2021

Photographs by Keith Corbett and Jackie Fortey Richard Fortey is one of my favourite authors. An eminent British geologist and television presenter, he has appeared with David Attenborough, and written a number of best-selling books on geology. But...

Tasmanian Voices

Keith Corbett

by Keith Corbett

24 Mar 2021