Tasmania

Tasmania is an island and state of the country of Australia.

The first convicts arrived in Tasmania when Lieutenant-Governor David Collins moved most of an unsuccessful convict settlement from the Mornington Peninsula to Tasmania, and established a convict colony on the Derwent River on 16 February 1804.

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From Auckland, New Zealand to Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is a distance of 2,428 km.

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The state is Tasmania and the body of water separating Tasmania from mainland Australia is Bass Strait.

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Hobart is the capital of the Australian island state of Tasmania.

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Yes, Tasmania is one of Australia's six states. It is part of Australla, politically and geographically.

Yes. It is an island off the coast of southeastern Australia. It is one of the country's six states (Australia has six states and two territories).

• Tasmania is Australia's island state, and its southernmost state.
• It is home to the Tasmanian devil, the largest carnivorous marsupial (dasyurid).
• It used to be home to an even larger dasyurid, the Thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
• The length of Tasmania's coastline is 2833 km, plus another 2049 km of smaller island coastlines.
• The highest mountain in Tasmania is Mt Ossa, at 1617 m high.
• Most of Tasmania is wilderness.
• Tasmania's rainforest is cool temperate rainforest, and contains some of Australia's most ancient plant life.
• Tasmania was originally home to one of Australia's most notoriously cruel convict prisons, Port Arthur.
• Tasmania is the only state of Australia where dingoes are not found.
• Tasmania was named after Dutch seafarer and explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman who discovered it on 24 November 1642.
• Tasmania was formerly named Van Diemen's Land. Tasman named it "Antony Van Diemen's Land" in honour of the High Magistrate, or Governor-General of Batavia.
• The first known Europeans to set foot on Van Diemen's Land were members of Tasman's crew, who stepped ashore on 2 December 1642. The men collected green plants, including sea parsley, or wild celery, to help ward off scurvy among the sailors.
• The island's name was changed to Tasmania in 1855, over sixty years after British colonists settled the Australian continent.
• Tasmania is the home of Australia's deepest lake, Lake St Clair. The Inland Fisheries Service of Tasmania states that Lake St Clair has a maximum depth of 174 metres.
• When trout were brought to Australia, they were first introduced to Tasmanian waters. The first eggs were brought from England and began to hatch in Tasmania on 4 May 1864.
• The mainland area of Tasmania has an area of 64 519 sq km and the extra island area is 3 882 sq km, giving a total of 68 401 sq km (26 409 sq miles).
• At Tasmania's longest point north to south, it is 296 km; at its widest point from east to west, it spans 315 km.

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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.

Hobart is the capital city of Australia's island state of Tasmania, and is Australia's southernmost capital city. As Australia's second oldest capital city, it is famous for his history and its convict origins.

Not at all. Hobart is the capital city of the island state of Tasmania, but with a population of around 212,000 it is a long way behind the larger capital cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. It is also smaller than Australia's national capital, Canberra.

It is even smaller than several regional cities such as the Gold Coast (Queensland), Newcastle and Wollongong (NSW).

It was named after Lord Hobart, the Colonial Secretary. at the time (early 1800s)

The species of wombat found in Tasmania is the Common wombat. This species is also found on the mainland, in the southeastern states of Australia.The Southern Hairy nosed wombat is primarily limited to parts of South Australia, while the Northern hairy nosed wombat, which is critically endangered, is restricted to just the Epping Forest National Park in Wueensland, and now a new location as well, the Richard Underwood Nature Refuge.

There are millions of trees in Tasmania. A large amount of Tasmania is still wilderness.

Tasmania is part of the Commonwealth of Australia. It is the country's island state.

Although it is an island, Tasmania is in fact joined to the Australian mainland by an undersea land bridge which was flooded thousands of years ago.