Complete National Parks and Reserves Listings". Parks and Wildlife Service. 29 January 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020 . Retrieved 7 May 2021. In the novel The Terror by Dan Simmons (2007). In this novel about the ill-fated exploration by HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to discover the Northwest Passage. The ships left England in May 1846 and were never heard from again, although since then much has been discovered about the fate of the 129 officers and crew. References are made to Van Diemen's Land during the chapters devoted to Francis Crozier. Tasmanian Aboriginal people had a diverse diet, including native currants, pigface, and native plums, and a wide range of birds and kangaroos. Seafood has always been a significant part of the Tasmanian diet, including its wide range of shellfish, which are still commercially farmed [179] such as crayfish, orange roughy, salmon [179] and oysters. [179] Seal meat also formed a significant part of the Aboriginal diet. [180]

Schilder, Günter (1976). Australia unveiled: the share of the Dutch navigators in the discovery of Australia. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd. p.170. ISBN 978-9022199978. Ewan McColl recorded the transportation song "Van Diemen's Land," releasing it on the Riverside Records long-playing album "Scots Streets Songs," and also released the song as a 45-rpm single. State badge of a red lion passant on white disk surmounted by St Edward's Crown, on a defaced British Blue Ensign Museum of Australian Democracy. "Constitution Act 1855 (Tas)". Documenting Democracy. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021 . Retrieved 25 July 2021.

Wineglass Bay seen from Mount Amos at Freycinet National Park Satellite image showing snow covering Tasmania's highlands, August 2020. Sub-national HDI". Global Data Lab. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023 . Retrieved 18 February 2023. The Governor of Tasmania, being the representative of the Tasmanian head of state, the King of Australia, is officially granted a flag for use on all official occasions. It is identical in design and construction to the flag of Tasmania, except that it features a St. Edward's Crown above the badge to represent vice-regal power.

Colonel Collins' Commission 14 January 1803 (NSW)". Museum of Australian Democracy . Retrieved 11 June 2019. The Fate Of The Aboriginal Inhabitants (Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Feb 1867, p.8)". Archived from the original on 17 August 2022 . Retrieved 17 August 2022. Launceston Climate Statistics". Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021 . Retrieved 14 May 2021. About 4.5% of people in Tasmania follows non-Christian religion mainly Hinduism (1.7%), Buddhism (1.0%) and Islam (0.9%). [132] Lewis, Donald M (2004). Dictionary of Evangelical Biography. Peabody, Mass, USA: Hendrikson Publishers. p.587. ISBN 1565639359.

Eucryphia lucida (leatherwood) – a prominent floral symbol of Tasmania and a unique monofloral honey species. [106] In 1773, Tobias Furneaux in HMS Adventure, explored a great part of the south and east coasts of Van Diemen's Land and made the earliest British chart of the island. [4] He discovered the opening to D'Entrecasteaux Channel and, at Bruny Island, named Adventure Bay for his ship. [5] [6] Tasmania ( / t æ z ˈ m eɪ n i ə/; Palawa kani: lutruwita [14]) is an island state of Australia. [15] It is located 240kilometres (150miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, separated from it by the Bass Strait, with the archipelago containing the southernmost point of the country. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 1000 islands. [16] It is Australia's least populous state, with 569,825 residents as of December2021 [update]. The state capital and largest city is Hobart, with around 40 percent of the population living in the Greater Hobart area. [17] This makes it Australia's most decentralised state. [18] It is just in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. The crater is a rimless circular flat-floored depression, 1.2km (0.75mi) in diameter, in mountainous and heavily forested terrain. It is East of the West Coast Range and the former North Mount Lyell Railway formation.

quoted by Patsy Adam Smith p.248 of Smith, Patsy Adam and Woodberry, Joan (1977) Historic Tasmania Sketchbook Rigby ISBN 0-7270-0286-4In 1836 the new governor, Sir John Franklin, sailed to Van Diemen's Land, together with William Hutchins (1792-1841), who was to become the colony's first Archdeacon. [15] Rugby Union is also played in Tasmania and is governed by the Tasmanian Rugby Union. Ten clubs take part in the statewide Tasmanian Rugby Competition. Vandemonian – definition of Vandemonian by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia". Thefreedictionary.com . Retrieved 7 February 2013.