Television ads promoting vehicles
Have you ever recognised the places where the ads are shot?
There is an ad on Australian tv at present promoting the Kia Carnival
This is shot on the West Coast of Tasmania, namely Queenstown, the winding road is the Lyell Highway into/out of Queenstown.
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Called 99 bends, there are not 99 bends. The mountain at the top is Mt Owen
The lake the Kia crosses is Lake Burbury which is a man made reservoir built in 1991 by constructing the Crotty Dam across the King River, between Mount Jukes and Mount Huxley.
Crotty Dam/Mt Jukes
The dam is named in honour of James Crotty who founded the North Mount Lyell Copper Mine at the turn of the 20th century.
A ghost town site of the same name Crotty was submerged by the waters of Lake Burbury.
There is an ad on Australian tv at present promoting the Kia Carnival
This is shot on the West Coast of Tasmania, namely Queenstown, the winding road is the Lyell Highway into/out of Queenstown.
[media=https://youtu.be/DZ1pN84mPj0]
Called 99 bends, there are not 99 bends. The mountain at the top is Mt Owen
The lake the Kia crosses is Lake Burbury which is a man made reservoir built in 1991 by constructing the Crotty Dam across the King River, between Mount Jukes and Mount Huxley.
Crotty Dam/Mt Jukes
The dam is named in honour of James Crotty who founded the North Mount Lyell Copper Mine at the turn of the 20th century.
A ghost town site of the same name Crotty was submerged by the waters of Lake Burbury.
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The bridge the Kia crosses is the Bradshaw Bridge, named after the family that owned and operated the sawmill that was inundated at Princess River.