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    Sealing in Tasmania. Hobart: Parks and Wildlife Service. pp. 99–100. "Passage Island Flinders Island: A Rarely Offered 242ha Leasehold Island". realestate...
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  • Passage Island may refer to: Passage Island (British Columbia) Passage Island (Tasmania) Falkland Islands Passage Islands Passage Island, Falkland Islands...
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  • Mercury Passage is a waterway located on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia, separating Maria Island from the Tasmanian mainland. The passage connects...
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  • Robbins Passage, lies south to the adjacent Walker Island. Robbins Island is the seventh largest island of Tasmania and is the largest freehold island in Tasmania...
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    Tasmania is the smallest and southernmost state of Australia. The Tasmanian mainland itself is an island, with an area of 64,519 km2 (24,911 sq mi) - 94...
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    Barren Island, officially truwana / Cape Barren Island, is a 478-square-kilometre (185 sq mi) island in Bass Strait, off the north-east coast of Tasmania, Australia...
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    Maria Island or wukaluwikiwayna in palawa kani is a mountainous island located in the Tasman Sea, off the east coast of Tasmania, Australia. The 115.5-square-kilometre...
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  • Sisters Islands (Queensland) Sisters Island (Tasmania), north-west Tasmania Sisters Island Group, Tasmania, Furneaux Group Inner Sister Island Outer Sister...
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    group of approximately 100 islands located at the eastern end of Bass Strait, between Victoria and Tasmania, Australia. The islands were named after British...
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    Barren Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is a conservation reserve and with the Passage and Forsyth islands, the Gull Island forms...
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    Barren Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. With the Passage and Gull islands, the Forsyth Island forms part of the Forsyth, Passage and Gull...
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  • Protected areas of Tasmania consist of protected areas located within Tasmania and its immediate onshore waters, including Macquarie Island. It includes areas...
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    The Spike Island, part of the Passage Group within the Furneaux Group, is a close pair of unpopulated granite islands with a combined area of 6 hectares...
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  • outlines the history of Smooth Island, popularly known as Garden Island, in Norfolk Bay, Tasmania. The names come from the island's gently undulating topography...
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    Walker Island, sometimes also Walker's Island, is a 700-hectare (1,700-acre) island located in Bass Strait, lying off the northwest coast of Tasmania, Australia...
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    Van Diemen's Land (category Colonial history of Tasmania)
    name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration and colonisation of Australia in the 19th century. The island, inhabited...
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    Orford is a seaside village located on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia, approximately 73 kilometres (45 mi) north-east of the state-capital of Hobart...
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    Bass Strait (/bæs/) is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the...
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    was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether...
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  • 9-acre) granite island, located in Bass Strait south of Cape Barren Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. Recorded breeding seabird and wader...
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    John Franklin (category Governors of Tasmania)
    an attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage in 1845, Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island in what is now Nunavut, where he died...
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    Gates is the name of the mouth of Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is a notoriously shallow and dangerous channel entrance...
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    Aboriginal Tasmanians (category Aboriginal peoples of Tasmania)
    kani: Palawa or Pakana) are the Aboriginal people of the Australian island of Tasmania, located south of the mainland. At the time of European contact, Aboriginal...
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  • Wales Barrington, Tasmania Barrington River (New South Wales) Barrington Tops National Park, New South Wales Lower Barrington, Tasmania Municipality of...
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    The Robbins Passage and Boullanger Bay Important Bird Area is a 238 km2 tract of land at the western end of the north coast of Tasmania, south-eastern...
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    passers-by of the two passages and of the French claim to the islands. Thereafter, a number of expeditions briefly visited the islands, including the third...
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    queer (LGBTQ) people in Australian state of Tasmania have the same legal rights as non-LGBTQ people. Tasmania has a transformative history with respect...
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    South Passage begins in the shallow sand-barred channel between Moreton Island and North Stradbroke Island and continues along North Stradbroke Island past...
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    Strait, south of Cape Barren Island, and west of both Spike and Clarke islands, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is one of only three sites...
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  • Mona (redirect from Mona (island))
    Anglesey (Latin: Mona), an island off the north-west coast of Wales Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico, an island in the Mona Passage Isle of Man (Latin: Mona)...
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