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Tasmania from space. Tasmania (/ tæzˈmeɪniə /; palawa kani: lutruwita[14]) is an island state of Australia. [15] It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the ...
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.
This is a list of places in the Australian state of Tasmania by population. ... This page was last edited on 7 April 2024, at 20:00 (UTC).
1997 (21st Session) Macquarie Island is an island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. [ 1 ] Regionally part of Oceania and politically a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1900, it became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978 and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
History of Tasmania. 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.
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, [1] was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago. [2] Ice sheets covered much of Northern North America, Northern Europe, and Asia and profoundly affected Earth 's climate by ...
Alpine heathland at High Shelf Camp near Mount Anne, in Southwest National Park. 60% of Tasmanian alpine flora is endemic to the state. [1]The most ancient communities in Tasmania have an ancestry that extend back to a time when the Earth's continents were all joined as single landmass known as Pangaea which existed beyond 200 million years ago.
An approximate time-scale of events. in the Geological history of Tasmania. Axis scale is in millions of years ago. The earliest geological history is recorded in rocks from over 1,270 million years ago. [1] Older rocks from western Tasmania and King Island were strongly folded and metamorphosed into rocks such as quartzite.