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 Tasmania is an island state located in the southern part of Australia. Tasmania is the smallest state. Surrounded by a number of small islands which are King Island and Flinders Island is important. Hobart is the capital city of the state.
Located on the mainland state of Victoria, about 240 kilometers and is composed of the city. The combination of culture and architecture . Which reflects the UK in the period before. Terrain is mostly mountains and highlands. Beautiful scenery. It has been dubbed. Switzerland. Australia is a city of peace, so outdoor activities are very popular. The climate in the state of Tasmania is the coast sea. In summer the average temperature is about 11-21 ° C

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Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as "Tassie") is an island state , part of the Commonwealth of Australia , located 240 kilometres (150 mi) to the south of the
Australian continent, separated by Bass Strait .
The state includes the island of Tasmania, the
26th largest island in the world , and the surrounding 334 islands .
The state has a population of 507,626 (as of June 2010 [update] ), of whom almost half reside in the greater
Hobart precinct. Tasmania's area is 68,401 square kilometres (26,410 sq mi), of which the main island covers 62,409 square kilometres
(24,096 sq mi) .

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The state is named after Dutch explorer Abel
Tasman , who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642.
Tasman named the island "Anthony van Diemen's
Land" after his sponsor Anthony van Diemen , the Governor of the Dutch East Indies . The name was later shortened to honour of its first European discoverer on 1
January 1856.
Van Diemen's Land mentioned in The Jerilderie Letter written by the by the British. It was officially renamed Tasmania in notorious Australian bushranger Ned Kelly in 1879. The colloquial expression for the state is "Tassie" (pronounced
"Tazzie"). This name is often used in advertising campaigns, for example by the Bass Strait ferry, Spirit of Tasmania
Tasmania is also colloquially shortened to "Tas"
(pronounced "Taz"), especially when used in business names and website addresses. TAS is also the Australia
Post abbreviation for the state.
The name for Tasmania in Palawa kani is
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Tessellated pavement , a rare rock formation on the Tasman Peninsula

 Autumn on the Derwent River in Tasmania

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 The island is believed to have been joined to the mainland of Australia until the end of the last glacial period approximately
10,000 years ago. Much of the island is composed of Jurassic dolerite intrusions
(upwellings of magma ) through other rock types, sometimes forming large columnar areas of dolerite, with many distinctive
Hobart is a good example, showing distinct columns mountains and cliffs formed from this rock type.
sandstone and similar sedimentary stones. In the southwest, Precambrian quartzites was formed from very ancient sea sediments and form strikingly sharp ridges and ranges, such as Federation Peak or
Frenchmans Cap .

 In the northeast and east, continental granites can be seen, such as at Freycinet, similar to coastal granites on mainland Australia. In the northwest and west, mineral-rich volcanic rock can be seen at
Mount Read near Rosebery , or at Mount Lyell near
 Queenstown . Also present in the south and northwest is limestone with magnificent caves.
of Australia's glaciated landscape is found on the
Central Plateau and the Southwest. Cradle
Mountain , another dolerite peak, for example, was a nunatak .
The combination of these different rock types offers incredible scenery, much of it distinct from any other region of the world. In the far southwest corner of the state, the geology is almost completely quartzite, which gives the mountains the false impression of having snow-capped peaks year

Picture of the last four full-blood Tasmanian Aborigines c.1860s.
Truganini , the last to survive, is seated at far right.

 Tasmania was first inhabited by the Tasmanian
Aborigines. Evidence indicates their presence in the region, later to become an island, at least 35,000 years ago. Rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia about 10,000 years ago.
 By the time of European contact, the Aboriginal people in Tasmania had nine major ethnic groups. At the time of British settlement in 1803, the indigenous population was estimated at between 5,000 and
10,000 people. Through the introduction of infectious diseases to which they had no immunity, war , persecution , and intermarriage, the population dwindled to 300 by 1833. Almost all of the indigenous population was relocated to Flinders
Island by George Augustus Robinson .

 A woman named Truganini (1812 –1876) is generally recognised as the last full-blooded
Tasmanian Aborigine. Strong evidence suggests that the last survivor was another woman, Fanny
Cochrane Smith , who was born at Wybalena and died in 1905.
 European arrival
Tasmania in the late 19th century

 shortened to Hobart, after the British Colonial
Secretary of the time, Lord Hobart . The settlement at Risdon was later abandoned.
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The early settlers were mostly convicts and their military guards, with the task of developing agriculture and other industries. Numerous other convict-based settlements were made in Van
Diemen's Land , including secondary prisons, such as the particularly harsh penal colonies at Port
Arthur in the southeast and Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast. In the 50 years from 1803 to
1853, around 75,000 convicts were transported to
Tasmania. Van Diemen's Land was proclaimed a separate colony from New South Wales , with its own judicial establishment and Legislative

 The Colony of Tasmania (more commonly referred to simply as "Tasmania") was a British colony that existed on the island of Tasmania from 1856 until 1901, when it federated together with the five other Australian colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia. The possibility of the colony was established when the
Westminster Parliament passed the Australian
Colonies Government Act 1850, granting the right of legislative power to each of the six Australian colonies.

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 In 1975, the Tasman Bridge collapsed when the bridge was struck by the bulk ore carrier MV Lake
Illawarra . This made crossing the Derwent River at
Hobart almost impossible.
 National and international attention surrounded the campaign against the Franklin Dam in the early
1980s.
 On 28 April 1996, in the incident now known as the
Port Arthur massacre , lone gunman Martin Bryant shot and killed 35 people (including tourists and residents) and injured 21 others. The use of firearms was immediately reviewed, and new gun ownership laws were adopted nationwide, with Tasmania's law one of the strictest in Australia.

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In April 2006, the Beaconsfield Mine collapse was triggered by a small earthquake. One person was killed and two others were trapped underground for 14 days.
The Tasmanian community has for some time been divided over the issue of the proposed Bell Bay Pulp Mill to be built in the Tamar Valley . Proponents argue that jobs will be created, while opponents argue that pollution will damage both the Bass Strait fishing industry and local tourism.
In January 2011, wealthy philanthropist David Walsh opened the Museum of Old and New Art ( MONA ) in
Hobart to international acclaim. Within 12 months, MONA became Tasmania's top tourism attraction.

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 The form of the government of Tasmania is prescribed in its constitution, which dates from 1856, although it has been amended many times since then. Since 1901, Tasmania has been a state of the
Commonwealth of Australia, and the Australian Constitution regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth and prescribes which powers each level of government enjoys.
Politics
Main articles: Governors of Tasmania and Parliament of Tasmania
Tasmania is a State in the Australian federation. Its relationship with the Federal Government and Parliament are regulated by the
Australian Constitution . Tasmania is represented in the Senate by 12 senators, on an equal basis with all other states. In the House of
Representatives , Tasmania is entitled to five seats, which is the minimum allocation for a state guaranteed by the Constitution—the number of House of Representatives seats for each state is otherwise decided on the basis of their relative

Topography of Tasmania

Dove Lake and Cradle
Mountain , Central
Tasmanian Highlands
Tasmania's landmass of 68,401 km 2 (26,410 sq mi) is located at
42 ° S 147 ° E42 ° S 147 ° ECoordinates :

 The Derwent River flows south and reaches the coast at Hobart; the Tamar River flows north from
Launceston; the Mersey River also flows north to the
North West coast at Devonport, and the Franklin and
Gordon Rivers flow west and meet the coast at
Strahan . The South Esk River is the longest river in
Tasmania. It starts in the mountains at Fingal and flows through Avoca , Evandale , Longford , Hadspen and finally Launceston. The river is dammed at
Launceston's Trevallyn Dam and used for the city's hydroelectricity . Although most of the water is dammed at Lake Trevallyn, some flows on into the
Cataract Gorge , where it becomes a tributary to the
Tamar Estuary, and the outflow from the power station also joins the Tamar River downstream of Launceston.

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Tasmania has a cool temperate climate with four distinct seasons. Summer lasts from December to February when the average maximum sea temperature is 21
°C (70 °F) and inland areas around
Launceston reach 24 °C (75 °F). Other inland areas are much cooler, with
Liawenee , located on the Central Plateau, one of the coldest places in Australia, ranging between 4 °C (39 °F) and 17 °C (63
°F) in February. Autumn lasts between
March and May and experiences changeable weather, when summer weather patterns gradually take on the

 Tasmania became known as the 'Apple Isle' because for many years it was one of the world's major apple producers. Apples are still grown in large numbers, particularly in southern Tasmania, and have the distinction of being the first approved by the Japanese government for import, due to their verifiable pest-free status.
 Ecology

 Ferns in Hellyer Gorge , to the northeast of Savage
River National Park .

 Geographically and genetically isolated, Tasmania is known for its unique flora and fauna. Tasmania has extremely diverse vegetation, from the heavily grazed grassland of the dry Midlands to the tall evergreen eucalypt forest, alpine heathlands and large areas of cool temperate rainforests and moorlands in the rest of the state. Many flora species are unique to Tasmania, and some are related to species in
South America and New Zealand through ancestors which grew on the super continent of Gondwana , 50 million years ago. The island of
Tasmania was home to the Thylacine , a marsupial which resembled a wild dog. Known colloquially as the Tasmanian Tiger for the distinctive striping across its back, it became extinct in mainland Australia much earlier because of competition by the dingo , introduced in prehistoric times.
 Owing to persecution by farmers, government-funded bounty hunters and, in the final years, collectors for overseas museums, it appears to have been exterminated in Tasmania. The Tasmanian devil became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936, and is now found in the wild only in Tasmania.

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Tasmania's population is unusually homogeneous. The state receives relatively little immigration, and an estimated 10,000 or fewer
"founding families" in the mid-19th century are the ancestors of about 65% of its residents. As of
1996more than 80% of Tasmanians were born in the state and almost 90% were born in Australia,
New Zealand, Great Britain, and Ireland. The homogeneity makes it an attractive location to study population genetics . As of 2008, Tasmania is the only state in Australia which has an abovereplacement total fertility rate . Tasmanian women have an average of 2.24 children each. This is also the highest TFR recorded in Tasmania after 1975.