Why Americans are returning to Tasmania

It's remote, wild and devilishly subversive. Here's what we found when we visited

A quiet morning on the Pieman River in Corinna, Tasmania.

If you want to get away from it all, there's remote — and then there's Tasmania.

The island off the southeastern coast of Australia is more than 10,000 miles and 15 time zones from New York and an 11-hour ferry ride from Melbourne, the nearest major city.

Only 3,200 Americans visited Tasmania last …