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

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

Photo taken on February 25, 2019 show Sam Cleland, the officer in charge of the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, posing in Cape Grim, Tasmania. - As the Asia-Pacific wheezes, coughs and sniffles its way through another smog season, one isolated a

แซม คลีแลนด์ หัวหน้าเจ้าหน้าที่ของสถานีวัดมลภาวะทางอากาศระดับมูลฐานที่เคปกริม รัฐแทสมาเนีย Source: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images

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.

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By Audrey Bourget
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