How Gatsby stormed Mt Wilson

By Brenda Cunningham-Lewis
Updated June 12 2013 - 9:48am, first published 12:00am

When The Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann was looking to re-create the magic of the 1920s  fictional town of seaside West Egg in New York’s Long Island, he found the perfect location in the remote, sleepy village of Mt Wilson in the Blue Mountains. No mean feat at 1000 metres above sea level.

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