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The most mountainous region is the Central Highlands area, which covers most of the central western parts of the state. The Midlands located in the central east, is fairly flat, and is predominantly used for agriculture, although farming activity is scattered throughout the state. Tasmania's tallest mountain is Mount Ossa at 1,617 m (5,305 ft). [1]
Protected areas of Tasmania cover 21% of the island's land area in the form of national parks. [120] The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA) was inscribed by UNESCO in 1982, where it is globally significant because "most UNESCO World Heritage sites meet only one or two of the ten criteria for that status. The Tasmanian Wilderness ...
Tasmania is the smallest and southernmost state of Australia. The Tasmanian mainland itself is an island, with an area of 64,519 km 2 (24,911 sq mi) [1] - 94.1% of the total land area of the state. There are more than 1000 smaller islands which have a combined area of 4,055 km 2 (1,566 sq mi), making up the remaining 5.9% of total land area. [2 ...
Local government area Principal town Date established Land area [1] Demographics Map km 2 sq mi Population [1] (2022) Density [1] (per km 2) Classification Break O'Day: St Helens: 1993 3,523.9 1,361 7,013 2.0 Rural Brighton: Brighton: 1863 171.2 66 19,687 115.0 Urban Burnie: Burnie: 1908 611.0 236 20,497 33.5 Urban Central Coast: Ulverstone ...
Map of Tasmania within Australia Hobart, the capital and largest urban area in Tasmania Launceston Devonport Burnie. Tasmania is the smallest Australian state, with a population of 557,571 as of the 2021 Australian census [1] and an area of 68,401 square kilometres (26,410 sq mi). [2]
Each region is a land area made up of a group of interacting ecosystems that are repeated in similar form across the landscape. Regions and subregion cross state and territory boundaries. There are nine bioregions that are located within all or part of Tasmania: [8] Ben Lomond; Furneaux; King; Tasmanian Central Highlands; Tasmanian Northern ...
During the past 18,000 to 10,000 years, rising sea levels overflowed the lowlands and separated the continent into today's low-lying arid to semi-arid mainland and the two mountainous islands of New Guinea and Tasmania. With a total land area of 8.56 million square kilometres (3,310,000 sq mi), the Australian continent is the smallest, lowest ...
Tasmania is approximately 296 km (184 mi) north to south and 315 km (196 mi) east to west, [7]: 6 and about 300 km (190 mi) south of mainland Australia. Around 30 per cent of the state's land is reserved under some category of conservation land tenure. The Tasmanian Wilderness covers approximately 20 per cent of the state.