What are facts about tasmania?

Answer 1

• Tasmania is Australia's island state, and its southernmost state.
• It is home to the Tasmanian devil, the largest carnivorous marsupial (dasyurid).
• It used to be home to an even larger dasyurid, the Thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
• The length of Tasmania's coastline is 2833 km, plus another 2049 km of smaller island Coastlines.
• The highest mountain in Tasmania is Mt Ossa, at 1617 m high.
• Most of Tasmania is wilderness.
• Tasmania's rainforest is cool temperate rainforest, and contains some of Australia's most ancient plant life.
• Tasmania was originally home to one of Australia's most notoriously cruel convict prisons, Port Arthur.
• Tasmania is the only state of Australia where dingoes are not found.
• Tasmania was named after Dutch seafarer and explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman who discovered it on 24 November 1642.
• Tasmania was formerly named Van Diemen's Land. Tasman named it "Antony Van Diemen's Land" in honour of the High Magistrate, or Governor-General of Batavia.
• The first known Europeans to set foot on Van Diemen's Land were members of Tasman's crew, who stepped ashore on 2 December 1642. The men collected green plants, including sea parsley, or wild celery, to help ward off scurvy among the sailors.
• The island's name was changed to Tasmania in 1855, over sixty years after British colonists settled the Australian continent.
• Tasmania is the home of Australia's deepest lake, Lake St Clair. The Inland Fisheries Service of Tasmania states that Lake St Clair has a maximum depth of 174 metres.
• When trout were brought to Australia, they were first introduced to Tasmanian waters. The first eggs were brought from England and began to hatch in Tasmania on 4 May 1864.
• The mainland area of Tasmania has an area of 64 519 sq km and the extra island area is 3 882 sq km, giving a total of 68 401 sq km (26 409 sq miles).
• At Tasmania's longest point north to south, it is 296 km; at its widest point from east to west, it spans 315 km.