Where Was Alone Australia Season 3 Filmed? The Location, Explained

Alone Australia season 3 returned to Tasmania, but not to the same ground as season 1. This time contestants were placed in the West Coast Range, a mountain range in lutruwita/Tasmania's west coast region, running roughly north to south along the Mount Read volcanic arc.

Terrain and climate

The West Coast Range sits directly in the path of the Roaring Forties, the westerly wind belt that crosses the Southern Ocean with nothing between Tasmania's west coast and Antarctica to slow it down. That exposure makes the west coast far cooler and wetter than the rest of Tasmania, with the range itself catching an estimated 2,800 to 3,000mm of rain a year. Winter sea-level temperatures hover around 10°C, but inland and at elevation, winter highs often fail to climb above freezing at all, and morning frost is common whenever it isn't raining. The terrain itself is described as isolated, rough mountain country, historically associated with mining as much as wilderness. For contestants, that combination means cold, wet ground nearly year-round and mountainous terrain that makes travel and shelter-building slower and more exhausting than flat coastal ground would.

Why the numbers here look different

Season 3's field averaged 42.4 days, noticeably higher than season 1's 21.6-day average in South West Tasmania and season 2's 31.5-day average in Fiordland. That gap is a reminder that "Tasmania" isn't one location on this show: different ranges inside the same state produce very different survival math, and casting and strategy shift the numbers as much as terrain does. Even so, the West Coast Range still extracted a physical toll. Tom Covell voluntarily left on day 47 after losing roughly 21kg, with lightheadedness and early frostbite symptoms despite being medically cleared to continue, a sign of just how much energy the cold, wet ground demands even from an experienced expedition hand.

Contestant	Placement	Days lasted	Notable factor
Shay Williamson	1st (winner)	76	Longest run of any completed season at that point
Murray "Muzza" James	2nd	73	Oldest contestant in franchise history
Corinne Ooms	3rd	70	Voluntary tap-out to start a family
Tom Covell	4th	47	Early frostbite symptoms despite medical clearance
Ben Grieger	5th	40	Medically evacuated, low blood pressure

How the field fared

Shay Williamson, a professional possum trapper, won the season with a 76-day run built on eels, fish, plants, and worms, with a pademelon catch around day 67 carrying him through the final stretch. Medical staff flagged concerns about his weight loss but cleared him to keep going, and he took the win when runner-up Murray "Muzza" James was medically evacuated for dangerously low blood pressure at day 73, the franchise's oldest contestant to that point. Third-place Corinne Ooms lasted 70 days before a voluntary exit, marking the moment with a performance on a guitar she had crafted from camp materials.

For how the West Coast Range compares to the rest of the franchise's filming sites, see the locations hub, the full season 3 breakdown, and the location-by-location brutality ranking for how field survival time varies by terrain across every season.