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Geographic Locations > Islands > Australia > Tasmania
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Australia > Tasmania
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Australia > Tasmania
Geographic Locations > Oceania > Australasia > Australia > Tasmania

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Tasmania  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

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Note

  • an island state of Australia

Scope note

  • An island south of Australia and the smallest state of the Commonwealth. Its capital is Hobart. It was discovered and named Van Diemen's Island in 1642 by Abel Tasman, a Dutch navigator, in honor of the Dutch governor-general of the Dutch East Indian colonies. It was renamed for the discoverer in 1853. In 1803 it was taken over by Great Britain and was used as a penal colony. It was granted government in 1856 and federated as a state in 1901. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1190 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, p535)

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  • 88

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013648

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