Scotts Peak Dam Road
Is the most southerly point of road access into the South West Tasmania

South West Tasmania

South West Tasmania is a region in Tasmania that has evolved over the fifty years between its consideration as a potential resource for development to its consideration as World Heritage wilderness...

 region.

It was built specifically to facilitate the construction of dams for the flooding of Lake Pedder

Lake Pedder

Lake Pedder was once a natural lake, located in the southwest of Tasmania, Australia but the name is now used in an official sense to refer to the much larger artificial impoundment and diversion lake formed when the original lake was expanded by damming in 1972 by the Hydro Electric Commission of...

. It was an unsealed road built to connect between the dam works and the Gordon River Road

Gordon River Road

- was a road built to service the Hydro Tasmania construction of the Gordon Dam, and the Serpentine Dam, Tasmania leading to the flooding of Lake Pedder in South West Tasmania....

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It is currently utilised by people seeking to access the South Coast Tasmania

South Coast Tasmania

South Coast TasmaniaIs a term used in Tasmania - which is sometimes conflated with the South West Tasmania wilderness region.South East Cape is commonly used as a reference point of the eastern limit, and South West Cape the western end.-External links:*...

region of the South West Wilderness.