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The world's cleanest air is found in this Australian state

Tired of the pollution in Australia's big cities? The world's cleanest air is just across the Bass Strait.

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It's in North-Western Tasmania on the Cape Grim Peninsula where you can find the cleanest air on the planet, according to a measuring station on the cape.

Since 1976 the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station has been measuring air quality to, as its name suggests, determine a baseline for the pollution of the Earth's atmosphere.

"Our job is essentially to find air as clean as you're likely to find anywhere in the world and measure just how polluted it is," station officer Sam Cleland told AFP.

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