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Bass Strait is the channel located at the bottom of Australia between the mainland and the island of Tasmania.

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What island is located across the Bass Strait to the south of Australia?

Tasmania is located across the Bass Strait and to the south of Australia. Tasmania is still a part of Australia. ie. the same country


In which direction is Bass Strait from Melbourne?

Bass Strait is South of Melbourne.


What does Bass Strait separate Tasmania from?

Bass Strait separates Tasmania from the mainland Australia.


Which two Australian states are separated by Bass Strait?

Victoria and Tasmania are separated by Bass Strait.


What does Tasmania border?

Tasmania mostly borders the Southern Ocean and Bass Strait. There is an official land border between Victoria and Tasmania, which is Boundary Islet in Bass Strait, located at latitude 39°12' S.


What two states of Australia are separated by bass strait?

Victoria and Tasmania are separated by Bass Strait.


Approximately how far is it across bass strait?

It is approximately 240 km across Bass Strait


What is the strait between Australia and Tasmania?

Bass Strait.


Where is Bass Strait?

Bass Strait is the body of water between Mainland Australia and Tasmania


Who sponsored George Bass?

Governor Hunter was the one who sponsored Bass to determine whether a navigable strait existed between Van Diemen's Land and the Australian continent. After Bass discovered the strait south of the Australian mainland, it was Governor Hunter who decided it should be named Bass's Strait, later becoming Bass Strait.


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What body of water separates Tasmania and the Australian mainland?

Bass Strait is the body of water which separates the island state of Tasmania from the mainland state of Victoria in Australia. It is named after explorer George Bass who determined conclusively that Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) was an island.