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/tæzˈmeɪniə/
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(“tasmania” (abbreviated as tas and known colloquially as “tassie”) is an ‘island-state’ of ‘australia’)
(it is located ‘240 kilometers (aka ‘150 miles’) to the south of the ‘australian mainland’, separated by the ‘bass strait’)
(the state encompasses the main island of ‘tasmania’ (the 26th-largest island in the world), and the surrounding ‘334 islands’)
(the state has a population of around ‘519,100’ as of ‘june 2016’, just over 40% of which resides in the ‘greater hobart precinct’, which forms the metropolitan area of the (‘state capital’ + ‘largest city’ *HOBART*))
(tasmania’s area is 68,401 km2 (aka ‘26,410 m2), of which the ‘main island’ covers 64,519 km2 (aka 24,911 m2))
(promoted as a ‘natural state’; protected areas of ‘tasmania’ cover about 42% of the ‘land area’ of the state, which includes ‘national parks’ and ‘world heritage sites’)
(‘tasmania’ was the founding place of the ‘first environmental party in the world’)
“(hip hip)…HOORAY!!!”
(though an ‘island-state’, due to a ‘mapping error’ the ‘state’ shares a land border with ‘victoria’ at its northernmost terrestrial point, ‘boundary islet’ (a ‘nature reserve’ in ‘bass strait’))
(‘boundary islet’ an area of ‘2 hectares’ (aka ‘4.9 acres’))
(does it have much ‘value’ for either ‘victoria’ or ‘tasmania’?)
“why bother”
(new keyword)
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“have the respective governments of ‘australlia’ and/or ‘ tasmania’ ever consider ‘correcting’ this ‘mapping error’?”
“why is it ‘in error’?
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(the bishop and clerk islets (about 37 km south of ‘macquarie island’) are the southernmost terrestrial point of the state of ‘tasmania’, and the southernmost internationally recognized land in ‘australia’)
(the island is believed to have been occupied by ‘aboriginals’ for ‘40,000 years’ before ‘british colonization’)
(it is thought ‘tasmanian aboriginals’ were separated from the ‘mainland aboriginal groups’ about ‘10,000 years ago’ when the sea rose to form ‘bass strait’)
(the ‘aboriginal population’ was estimated to have been between ‘3,000’ and ‘7,000’ at the time of ‘colonization’, but was almost wiped out within ’30 years’ by a combination of ‘violent guerrilla conflict’ with settlers known as the “black war”, ‘intertribal conflict’, and from the ‘late 1820s’, the spread of ‘infectious diseases’ to which they had no ‘immunity’)
(the conflict, which peaked between ‘1825’ and ‘1831’ and led to more than 3 years of ‘martial law’, cost the lives of almost 1100 ‘aboriginals’ and ‘settlers’)
(the ‘near-destruction’ of tasmania’s ‘aboriginal population’ has been described by some ‘historians’ as an act of ‘genocide’ by the ‘british’)
(the ‘island’ was permanently settled in ‘1803’ as a ‘penal settlement’ of the ‘british empire’ to prevent claims to the land by the ‘first french empire’ during the ‘napoleonic wars’; around ‘75,000 convicts’ were sent to ‘van diemen’s land’ before transportation ceased in ‘1853’)
(the island was initially part of the “‘colony’ of ‘new south wales'”, but became a separate, self-governing colony under the name “Van Diemen’s Land” (named after ‘anthony van diemen’) in ‘1825’)
(in ‘1854’ the present ‘constitution of tasmania’ was passed and the following year the state received permission to change its name to ‘tasmania’)
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(in ‘1901’, it became a state through the process of the ‘federation’ of ‘australia’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈☜*“THE 6 AUSTRALIAN STATES”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥