Tasmania

Tasmania is the Australian state located just 240 km from the southeast coast of the main island in Australia, which is separated by Bass Strait. Tasmania includes the island of Tasmania and a thousand other small islands. The island stretches 364 km from north to south and 306 km from west to east. An area of ​​68,000 km ². The State 511 718 people in 2011, half of which reside in Hobart major, that is to say, the cities of Hobart, Glenorchy and Clarence (the largest city and capital of the state of Tasmania). Other population centers are Launceston, Devonport and Burnie. Macquarie Island is also under the management of the state and is the responsibility of the Board of Valley Hon. 

Tasmania was called the "natural state" (natural state) and the "island of inspiration" (Inspiration Island) in reference to the rich natural environment. And classifies more than one-third of the territory of Tasmania also known as nature reserves and national parks and World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. 

Geography 

The area of ​​the state of Tasmania is 90 km 758 km ². The main island, which is three-quarters of the land is, it is in 42 ° x 147 ° j, on the passage of "Roaring Forties". The island is surrounded by the Indian and Pacific Oceans and separated from mainland Australia (which is north-west) through the Bass Strait. 

To the south-east of Tasmania, the ribs are cut. Mountainous terrain, shaped by glaciers and very rugged, which is the most mountainous region is the Central Hills, which covers the center-west of the state. Midlands who are in the middle east, is somewhat flat, and are mostly used for agricultural purposes, although they are scattered throughout the state. The highest mountain is Mount Ossa, Tasmania 1614 meters with her​​. It is located in the heart of the National Park Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair 

Indigenous people 

Tasmania's population belong to indigenous sweat Alostrleod located in Australia, and at the advent of the British groomed estimated 2,000 people. But the war of extermination which has been practiced on them by English settlers made ​​Oaddhm decreases continuously until Abido for the last of them. In addition to the wars Tribe Between 1803 and 1808, and to the wars on animal food sources between whites and indigenous Between 1808 and 1823, which led to the shrinking numbers. In 1833, George Augustus Robinson persuaded Christian missionary of the remaining indigenous population to move to a new settlement on the island and provide Vlendes Doctors and bass, and lots of food and farms and houses them