It’s a small hut that sits on an island, surrounded by a lake, in a corner of Tasmania’s remote central plateau wilderness.
Halls Hut is one of the state’s most isolated structures, only accessible by walking across country for three hours from the nearest defined walking track, then crossing the water at Lake Malbena.
Halls Hut sits on Halls Island, in the middle of Lake Malbena, in the Walls of Jerusalem National Park in Tasmania’s wilderness world heritage area. (Supplied: Rob Blakers)
The island’s sheer isolation and tranquillity has attracted generations of hikers and fishers — and is what led Reg Hall to build the structure in the 1950s, as an escape from his own wartime experiences.
With the help of several men, they used bush…
