Midlands

The Midlands in Tasmania refers to the relatively flat, dry agricultural area between Launceston and Hobart, so named because it covers most of the middle of these two cities.

Geographically, most of the Midlands is a relatively low plain drained mostly by tributaries of the Tamar River. The natural vegetation was predominantly grassland, but all of it is either heavily grazed by cattle and sheep or cleared for growing better pasture species. On the eastern side it rises into low, unglaciated granite mountains largely covered with sclerophyllous forests, but on the west lies the high doleritic Lake Country, which was extensively glaciated during Quaternary glacial periods and is covered with large numbers of lakes consequently carved into the very hard and erosion-resistant rock.