Tasmania and Australia were once connected by a land bridge when the oceans were lower
Tasmania is a state of Australia, so it has the same Prime Minister as the rest of Australia. The state government of Tasmania, like the other states of Australia, is led by the Premier.
Tasmania is located across the Bass Strait and to the south of Australia. Tasmania is still a part of Australia. ie. the same country
There is only one species of platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) so the kind you find in Eastern Australia and Tasmania is the same one you find everywhere else that it lives. (Of course Eastern Australia and Tasmania is about the only place you will find the platypus in the wild - and note that Tasmania is actually part of Australia.)
Tasmania is an island state of the Commonwealth of Australia. They use the Australian dollar.
As Tasmania is one of Australia's states, the instruments used there will be the same as the instruments used throughout Australia. there is a great variety of westernised instruments, as well as instruments from other cultures.
No animal has exactly the same name as one of Australia's states. However, the Tasmanian Devil is found in Tasmania.
No. Tasmania is smaller.
Abel Tasman discovered the country of New Zealand in 1642. He also discovered the island of Tasmania, which is now part of Australia, but he believed New Zealand and Tasmania to be part of the same continent.
Tasmania's four seasons are the same as the rest of Australia. Summer - December, January, and February. Autumn - March, April, and May. Winter- June, July, and August. Spring - September, October, and November.
Aborigines have been in Tasmania for thousands of years. The first European to discover Tasmania was Dutch explorer Abel Tasman on 24 November 1642. At the time he named it Van Diemen's Land.
The only country in Australia is Australia, and it is made up of a continent of Australia and the island of Tasmania. About 2000km southeast of Australia is New Zealand, a country made up of two main islands and many smaller islands. Like Australia, it is within the geographic region of Oceania. There is a common misconception that Australia is the same as Oceania. It is not. Australia is a continent and a country. It is within the region of Oceania, which is not a continent.