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The history of Tasmania begins at the end of the Last Glacial Period (approximately 12,000 years ago) when it is believed that the island was joined to the Australian mainland. Little is known of the human history of the island until the British colonisation of Tasmania in the 19th century.
Tasmanian Aboriginal mythology also records in their oral history that the first men emigrated by land from a far-off country and the land was subsequently flooded – an echo of the Tasmanian people's migration from mainland Australia to (then) peninsular Tasmania, and the submergence of the land bridge after the last ice age.
Aboriginal Australians along the coast and rivers were also expert fishermen. Some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people relied on the dingo as a companion animal, using it to assist with hunting and for warmth on cold nights. Aboriginal women's implements, including a coolamon lined with paperbark and a digging stick. This woven basket ...
The British colonisation of Tasmania took place between 1803 and 1830. Known as Van Diemen's Land , the name changed to Tasmania , when the British government granted self-governance in 1856. [ 1 ] It was a colony from 1856 until 1901, at which time it joined five other colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia .
Weep in silence: a history of the Flinders Island aboriginal settlement, with the Flinders Island journal of George Augustus Robinson, 1835–1839, Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 1987 (editor) Jorgen Jorgenson and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land : being a reconstruction of his "lost" book on their customs and habits, and on his role in the ...
First Indigenous Australian to have a number one hit on the Australian music charts: Jimmy Little ("Royal Telephone"). First documentary recognition of Indigenous Australians in Australian law: Yirrkala bark petitions. [53] 1964. First Indigenous Australian to publish a book of verse: Oodgeroo Noonuccal (We Are Going). [54]
Awe-inspiring wilderness, rugged coastline, award-winning produce and a mellow culture – Joanna Whitehead discovers why Tasmania is an underrated gem The lesser-known region of Australia that ...
"Aboriginal people of Macquarie Harbour". Tasmanian Parks. Archived from the original on 9 March 2011; Exon, N. F. (5 October 1997). "Geological framework of the South Tasman Rise, south of Tasmania, and its sedimentary basins". Journal of the Geological Society of Australia. 44 (5): 561 to 577. Bibcode:1997AuJES..44..561E.