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A camel train on the beach. Cable Beach is home to one of Australia's most famous nudist beaches. [9] The clothes-optional area is to the north of the beach access road from the car park and continues to the mouth of Willie Creek, 17 km (11 mi) away. [a] Four-wheel drive vehicles are permitted north of the rocks.
In 1876, the first telegraph cable connecting Australia and New Zealand was laid in the Tasman Sea. [15] The telegraph cable was made obsolete in 1963 when the Commonwealth Pacific Cable, New Zealand's first international telephone cable, was completed. [16] Moncrieff and Hood were the first to attempt a trans-Tasman crossing by plane in ...
Tasmania is also home to one of Australia's leading new music institutions, IHOS Music Theatre and Opera and gospel choirs, the Southern Gospel Choir. Prominent Australian metal bands Psycroptic and Striborg hail from Tasmania. [171] Noir-rock band The Paradise Motel and 1980s power-pop band The Innocents [172] are also citizens.
Cook Strait (Māori: Te Moana-o-Raukawa, lit. 'The Sea of Raukawa') is a strait that separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The strait connects the Tasman Sea on the northwest with the South Pacific Ocean on the southeast.
Cable Beach, Australia Australia is known for its population of terrifying creatures, and Cable Beach is home to many of them. The beach is home to venomous spiders, snakes, white pointer sharks ...
Satellite photo of Australia Tallow Beach, Byron Bay, New South Wales. The coastline of Australia comprises the coasts of mainland Australia and Tasmania.It nominally includes a part of all Australian states and territories; the otherwise landlocked Australian Capital Territory has a coastal enclave at Jervis Bay Territory.
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 .
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of Bass Strait as follows: [1]. On the west. The eastern limit of the Great Australian Bight [being a line from Cape Otway, Australia, to King Island and thence to Cape Grim, the northwest extreme of Tasmania].