Tasmania
Australia - an island state of
Australia. It is located 240 kilometres (150
miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, separated from it by the Bass Strait, with the archipelago ( chain of islands) containing the southernmost point of the country. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, & the surrounding 1000 islands.The state capital & largest city is Hobart.
Hobart , Tasmania is the least-populated Australian state capital city, & 2nd-smallest if territories are taken into account, before Darwin , Northern Territory.
The city, initially known as Hobart Town or Hobarton, was named after Lord Hobart, the British Secretary of State for war & the colonies.
Tasmania was named after
Abel Janszoon Tasman a Dutch seafarer & explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 & 1644 .
Popular foods here are
Wild abalone & lobster. Tasmania is well known for its abundant marine life & great fishing, it is also one of the world'
s premier suppliers of wild abalone & lobster...
Leatherwood honey
Black truffles
Premium fresh fruit & vegetables.
Farmed salmon.
Tasmania deals out more than just world-class whiskys: the region is also famous for its gin and vodkas, and other spirits
Sports
Tasmania JackJumpers a Basketball team
Tasmania Tigers a
cricket team
South Hobart
Football Club a Australian
soccer club
Hobart Hurricanes a T20
cricket Big Bash League.
North-West Tasmania Thunder a Australian basketball team
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Tasmania
Australia :
Tasmania's main island was inhabited by Aboriginal peoples for up to
40,000 years before British colonization. The island was permanently settled by Europeans in 1803 as a penal settlement of the British Empire.
The Black War was a period of violent conflict between British colonists & Aboriginal Tasmanians in Tasmania from the
mid-1820s to 1832. The conflict, fought largely as a guerrilla war by both sides, claimed the lives of 600 to 900 Aboriginal people & more than 200 British colonists.
The Port
Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port
Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, killed 35 people & wounded 23 others, the worst massacre in modern Australian history. The attack led to fundamental changes in
Australia's gun laws.
(Prior to this / before this happened )
After quitting a national gun summit in 1987, 8 years before the massacre & following 2 mass shootings in Melbourne earlier in 1995, Premier of New South Wales Barrie Unsworth said: "it will take a massacre in Tasmania before we get gun reform in
Australia", referencing Tasmania's resistance to gun law changes. A redesign of the laws for all states & territories of
Australia had been prepared by officers & presented at a meeting of police ministers in Launceston in 1995. It had been rejected by Tasmania.
