Portland on the mainland. Clarke Island is the third-largest island in the Furneaux Group, and Tasmania's eighth largest island. Off its west coast lies...
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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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Clark Island or Clarke Island may refer to: Clark Island (New South Wales), an island in Sydney Harbour Clarke Island (Tasmania), an island of the Furneaux...
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California Clarke County (disambiguation) Clarke Glacier (disambiguation), three glaciers in Antarctica Clarke Island (Tasmania), Australia Clarke Quay, Singapore...
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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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Tasmania (/tæzˈmeɪniə/; palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian...
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000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) are: Tasmania (Tas) 64,519 square kilometres (24,911 sq mi); Melville Island, Northern Territory (NT), 5,786 square...
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Furneaux Group (redirect from Furneaux Group, Tasmania)
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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Macquarie Harbour Penal Station (redirect from Sarah Island (Tasmania))
settlement, established on Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour, in the former colony of Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, operated between 1822 and 1833. The...
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rock islet in the Southern Ocean, off the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is situated approximately 26 km (16 mi) south southeast of...
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in Bass Strait, south of Cape Barren Island in Spike Bay just off the west coast of Clarke Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. Recorded...
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The history of Tasmania begins at the end of the Last Glacial Period (approximately 12,000 years ago) when it is believed that the island was joined to...
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Isle of the Dead is an island, about 1 hectare (2.5 acres) in area, adjacent to Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia. It is historically significant since...
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Arthur is a town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. It is located approximately 97 kilometres (60 mi) southeast...
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Passing just west of Clarke Island, Tasmania, Australia (at 40°32′S 148°5′E / 40.533°S 148.083°E / -40.533; 148.083 (Clarke Island)) 40°45′S 148°0′E...
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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 was previously...
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Bass Strait (redirect from Bass Strait Island)
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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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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The Colony of Tasmania (more commonly referred to simply as "Tasmania") was a British colony that existed on the island of Tasmania from 1856 until 1901...
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Cape Portland (redirect from Cape Portland (Tasmania))
Portland district is Tebrakunna. Banks Strait separates Cape Portland from Clarke Island, one of the Furneaux Group, to the north. Cape Portland Post Office...
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Shipwrecks of Tasmania are shipwrecks which have occurred in and around the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Tasmania is an island and since the time...
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rocks from over 1,270 million years ago. Older rocks from western Tasmania and King Island were strongly folded and metamorphosed into rocks such as quartzite...
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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 Tasmanian...
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Spike and Clarke islands, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is one of only three sites where pelicans breed in Tasmania. Recorded breeding...
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The West Coast of Tasmania has a significant convict heritage. The use of the west coast as an outpost to house convicts in isolated penal settlements...
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Deadloch (category Television shows set in Tasmania)
and Kate McLennan, the series is set in Deadloch, a fictional town in Tasmania, and stars Kate Box, Madeleine Sami, Alicia Gardiner, and Nina Oyama. Deadloch...
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Vombatus ursinus tasmaniensis, found in Tasmania Vombatus ursinus ursinus, found on Flinders Island and Maria Island in the Bass Strait Northern hairy-nosed...
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Tasmanian devil (redirect from Tasmania devil)
became extinct there around 3,500 years ago; it is now confined to the island of Tasmania. The size of a small dog, the Tasmanian devil became the largest carnivorous...
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from Clarke Island in the Bass Strait. This species occurs I southern and western Australia from Camden Haven in New South Wales to Rottnest Island in Western...
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Bass Strait ferries (category Ferries of Tasmania)
across Bass Strait between Tasmania and Victoria in mainland Australia, as well as the various attempts to link Tasmania with Sydney. Historically, some...
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