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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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
🇦🇺
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.
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.
by Blu_leef May 20, 2023