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The Archives Office of Tasmania had been a separate entity from the Tasmanian state library, despite being housed in the same building. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The W E Crowther collection was a special component of the State Library prior to the amalgamation, and was frequently referred to as being the major part of the Heritage Collections of the State ...
Tasmania is a hotspot for giant habitat trees and the large animal species that occupy them, notably the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax fleayi), the Tasmanian masked owl (Tyto novaehollandiae castanops), the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi), the yellow wattlebird (Anthochaera paradoxa), the green ...
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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.
William Nevin Tatlow Hurst, ISO (11 April 1868 – 24 December 1946) was a senior Tasmanian civil servant. In 1925 he succeeded the Tasmanian Surveyor-General, E A Counsel, as the head of the Tasmanian Department of Lands and Surveys, although with the title of Secretary for Lands.
The Toogee were an Aboriginal Tasmanian people who lived in Western Tasmania, Australia, before European settlement.Their Toogee people included Macquarie Harbour. [1]The Toogee consisted of two different bands, the Lowreenne and Mimegin. [2]
There was some dispute as to whether she or Truganini was the last Tasmanian Aboriginal person. The matter was settled in 1889 when the government of the Colony of Tasmania granted her 300 acres (120 ha) of land and increased her annuity to £50, recognising her as the last "full-blooded" [a] Tasmanian Aboriginal person.