House of Gordon Australia

The Gordon River Tasmania is a most beautifuil place, Atlantic salmon, Huon Pines and Magic scenery as you can see. It consists of 121 kilometers of winding impassable waterways commencing in Broomhill and ending at the Franklin River. It contains impregnable rainforests and impassable gorges. The most famous known as the Gordon Splits. So named by JS Roe surveyor General of Tasmania in 1835 and named after George Hamilton Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen then the Primeminister of England. The entire river is a wilderness area that was in the 1970's subject to great controvacy about daming it. This was eventually overturned and the the river left in its beautiful natural state. Today you can hop a boat at Straughn and investigate the Salmon farms the convict boat building history and the wilderness covered with magestic Huon pines.