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Letter to Queen Elizabeth II from the Lake Pedder Action Committee
[Letterhead for the ‘LAKE PEDDER ACTION COMMITTEE’.]
127 Goulburn Street
WEST HOBART. [underlined] 7000
28th May, 1972.
To Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth 11.,
Buckingham Palace,
LONDON. [underlined] S.W.1.
Your Royal Highness,
On behalf of the signatories of this petition, I ask Your Majesty’s support in saving “Australia’s most beautiful lake”.
It is situated 900 feet above sea-level in a National Park in the South-West wilderness area of Tasmania. Its magnificent beach of white quartzite is two miles long and in Summer is 700 yards wide. The uniqueness of its beauty, which nature has spent thousands of years in creating, is now threatened with extinction.
General petitions have been organised. One of 10,000 signatures was addressed to the State Government in 1967. Others in recent months from other Australian States amounted to a total of 250,000 signatures, these have been addressed to the Federal Parliament.
We would not appeal to Your Majesty if the issue were a political one. But the preservation of our national heritage, especially when it involves a lake whose aesthetic and scientific values are of world importance, cuts across party consideration.
We are therefore encouraged to hope that Your Majesty will consider this petition and help to save this small but invaluable part of Your Majesty’s Commonwealth.
