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Nature calls -- even on mountain peaks

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SYDNEY, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Australian officials want to improve hygiene at Kosciuszko National Park, so they're planning to build the nation's highest toilet.

The so-called "loo with a view" will be built just below the summit of Australia's tallest mountain. Campers will be asked to put their waste in a bag and then deposit it in a toilet the Sydney Morning Herald likened to a "hobbit hole."

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Some 60,000 people journey to the summit annually, as many as 1,800 a day during the summer, and most dig little holes when nature calls.

Andrew Harrigan of the National Park and Wildlife Service said the toilet has been on the drawing board for years but officials didn't what to build a toilet that looked like a toilet.

The proposed facility will have three unisex stalls and be built into the mountain.

"It will be built like a hidden bunker, not your typical brick (expletive)house," Harrigan told the Morning Herald.

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