The last documented thylacine, otherwise known as the Tasmanian tiger, died in Hobart Zoo in September 1936 and the species was presumed extinct 50 years later. But are they? Travel anywhere on Tasmania's west coast and you'll meet locals who relate tales of some of the 4,000 claimed sightings of the mystifying marsupials over the past 70 years.
Corinna is the Aboriginal name for young thylacines, so for those budding tiger-spotters, the old gold-mining town of the same name, surrounded by vast tracts of rainforest at the southern end
of Tasmania's Tarkine wilderness, may be a good place to start.
Bordered by the Arthur River in the north and the Pieman River to the south, the Tarkine sprawls across 450,000 hectares in the state's northwest. An unspoiled wilderness of breathtaking beauty, it is regarded as one of the most significant temperate rainforests on the planet.
Spectacular vistas of the Tarkine are one of the highlights of a visit to Corinna, nestled on the banks of the slowly flowing Pieman River.
A busy settlement of hopeful prospectors during a short-lived gold boom in the late 19th century, the speck in the wilderness boasted a population of around 2,500 in the 1880s. But by 1899 it had become a ghost town, home to a lone ferryman who skippered a barge across the Pieman - the only road link between the Arthur River and the west coast - for the next 38 years.