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Tasmania, the largest island of Australia, has a landmass of 68,401 km 2 (26,410 sq mi) and is located directly in the pathway of the notorious "Roaring Forties" wind that encircles the globe. To its north, it is separated from mainland Australia by Bass Strait. Tasmania is the only Australian state that is not located on the Australian mainland.
Rankin, Robert (2013) Australia – Forest to Sea, Rankin Publishers, Brisbane. Third in a series of 3, this book features some of Rankin's best pictures of Australia's forests and seas. (hardback) Rankin, Robert (2018) Tasmania – Wilderness Walks, Rankin Publishers, Brisbane. A bushwalker's guide to Tasmania. (paperback)
A picture of the last four Tasmanian Aboriginal people of solely Aboriginal descent c. 1860s. Truganini, the last to survive, is seated at far right.. The Aboriginal Tasmanians (palawa kani: Palawa or Pakana [4]) are [5] the Aboriginal people of the Australian island of Tasmania, located south of the mainland.
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. Originally, it was created for the entrance of the Australian Mutual Provident Society's building in Elizabeth Street, at the site of NAB House. After the building was demolished, it was donated to the gardens in 1968 to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the gardens.
The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, abbreviated to TWWHA, is a World Heritage Site in Tasmania, Australia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is one of the largest conservation areas in Australia, covering 15,800 km 2 (6,100 sq mi), or almost 25 per cent of Tasmania.
The Tasman National Park is a national park in eastern Tasmania, Australia, approximately 56 kilometres (35 mi) east of Hobart. The 107.5-square-kilometre (41.5 sq mi) park is situated on part of both the Forestier and Tasman peninsulas and encompasses all of Tasman Island.
The West Coast of Tasmania is one of the regions of Tasmania in Australia.It is mainly isolated rough country and is associated with wilderness, mining and tourism.It served as the location of an early convict settlement in the early history of Van Diemen's Land, and contrasts sharply with the more developed and populous northern and eastern parts of the island state.
Lake Pieman is a man-made reservoir created by the damming of the Pieman River, located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. It is a long, narrow lake following the line of the Pieman River from Reece Dam back to Rosebery and the Bastyan Dam.