Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Tasmania

Index Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia. [1]

435 relations: Abalone, Abel Tasman, Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal Tasmanians, ABT (TV station), Adventure Bay, Tasmania, AFL siren controversy, Agfest, Agricultural show, Airlines of Tasmania, Alannah Hill, Alex Cisak, Alexander Technique, Alpine climate, Anglicanism, Ansett Australia, Antarctica, Anthony van Diemen, Archibald Prize, Arctic Blast, Association football, Atlantic salmon, Australia, Australia Act 1986, Australian Antarctic Division, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Football League, Australian Greens, Australian House of Representatives, Australian Labor Party, Australian rules football, Australian Senate, Avoca, Tasmania, Bass Highway, Tasmania, Bass Strait, Beaconsfield Mine collapse, Bell Bay Pulp Mill, Bellerive Oval, Berriedale, Tasmania, Bicameralism, Bill Mollison, Biodiversity, Bishop and Clerk Islets, Black War, Blackmans Bay, Tasmania, Boag's Brewery, Bob Brown, Bob Clifford, Bob Hawke, ..., Borders of the oceans, Boundary Islet, Boxing Day, Bradley Trevor Greive, Brian Plomley, Brian Ritchie, Brisbane, British Empire, Burnie Airport, Burnie, Tasmania, Bushranger, Carrick, Tasmania, Cascade Brewery, Cataract Gorge, Central Highlands (Tasmania), Central Plateau Conservation Area, Chernozem, Cherry, Christopher Koch, Cinema of Australia, Colony of New South Wales, Constantine Koukias, Constitution Dock, Constitution of Australia, Convict, Courtney Barnett, Cradle Mountain, Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Crayfish, Cricket, Crocoite, Danielle Wood, Dave Haley, David Bartlett, David Boon, David Collins (lieutenant governor), David Foster (woodchopper), David Macpherson (tennis), David Stephenson, David Walsh (art collector), Daylight saving time in Australia, Deny King, Devonport Airport, Devonport, Tasmania, Diabase, Dingo, Don Kay (composer), Dutch East Indies, Dutch people, Eddie Jones (rugby union), EFL League Two, Elizabeth Blackburn, England national rugby union team, Enid Lyons, Errol Flynn, Essie Davis, Estuary, Ethnic cleansing, Ethnic groups in Europe, Eucalypt, Eucalyptus globulus, Evandale, Tasmania, Exploration, Extinction, F. Matthias Alexander, Falls Festival, Federal Group, Federation of Australia, Fingal, Fire-stick farming, Firearm, First French Empire, Flinders Island, For the Term of His Natural Life, For the Term of His Natural Life (1927 film), Fossa (animal), Franklin Dam controversy, Fremantle Football Club, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Frenchmans Cap, Freycinet National Park, Geoffrey Dyer, George Augustus Robinson, George Bailey (cricketer), George Bass, Glacial period, Gold Coast, Queensland, Gondwana, Government of Tasmania, Graeme Murphy, Granite, Great Australian Bight, Green party, Hadspen, Tasmania, Hannah Gadsby, Hawthorn Football Club, Heather Rose, Hobart, Hobart Devils, Hobart International, Hobart International Airport, Hobart International Tennis Centre, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Hudson Fysh, Hung parliament, Huon Highway, Hydro Tasmania, Hydroelectricity, Ida Bay Railway, IHOS Music Theatre and Opera, Incat, Independent politician, Index of Australia-related articles, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous peoples, Infection, Island, Island magazine, Jack Carington Smith, James Cook, James McAuley, Jean Stafford (musician), Jerilderie Letter, Jetstar Airways, Jim Bacon, Jimmy Boyce, John Bowe (racing driver), John Bowen (colonist), John Gellibrand, John Glover (artist), John Oxley, Joseph Lyons, Judge and Clerk Islets, Jurassic, Kanamaluka / Tamar River, Kate Gordon, Kate Warner, Katherine Johnson, Katherine Scholes, King Island (Tasmania), King Island Airport, Kingston, Tasmania, Kris McQuade, Lake Pedder, Lara Giddings, Last glacial period, Launceston Airport, Launceston, Tasmania, Leaching (agriculture), Leader of the Opposition (Tasmania), Leyton Orient F.C., Lian Tanner, Liawenee, Liberal Party of Australia, Limestone, Lion (2016 film), List of amphibians of Tasmania, List of Australian capital cities, List of highways in Tasmania, List of islands of Tasmania, List of schools in Tasmania, Local government areas of Tasmania, Longford, Tasmania, Louisa Anne Meredith, Luca Brasi (band), Luke Ockerby, Macquarie Harbour, Macquarie Island, Magma, Mainland Australia, Manganinnie, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, Marcos Ambrose, Marcus Clarke, Margaret Scott (author), Maria Grenfell, Marion Bay, Tasmania, Marsupial, Martin Bryant, Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Matthew Richardson (footballer), Melbourne Airport, Mersey River (Tasmania), Metro Tasmania, Midlands (Tasmania), Military history of Australia during the Second Boer War, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, MONA FOMA, Moorilla Estate, Mount Lyell (Tasmania), Mount Ossa (Tasmania), Mount Read (Tasmania), Mount Wellington (Tasmania), MS Fest, Multiple sclerosis, Museum of Old and New Art, MV Lake Illawarra, Nan Chauncy, Napoleonic Wars, NASCAR, National Basketball League (Australia), National park, National Premier Leagues Tasmania, Ned Kelly, Network Ten, New South Wales, New Zealand, Nine Network, Norfolk Island, Norske Skog, North Melbourne Football Club, Nunatak, Nyrstar, Old-growth forest, Olegas Truchanas, Oliver Heyward, Orange roughy, Outline of Australia, Oyster, Palawa kani, Parliament of Tasmania, Pat Brassington, Paul Lennon, Penal colony, Peter Dombrovskis, Peter Sculthorpe, Philip Gidley King, Phillip Aspinall, Phosphorus, Podzol, Poland, Population genetics, Port Arthur massacre (Australia), Port Arthur, Tasmania, Postal voting, Postcodes in Australia, Precambrian, Prime Minister of Australia, Privy council, Proportional representation, Protected areas of Tasmania, Psamment, Psycroptic, Pyrethrum, Qantas, QantasLink, Quartzite, Quaternary, Queenstown, Tasmania, Rachael Taylor, Rachael Treasure, Rail transport in Tasmania, Rallying, Real tennis, Redline Coaches, Regional Express Airlines, Regions of Tasmania, Responsible government, Rhys Jones (archaeologist), Richard Flanagan, Richie Porte, Ricky Ponting, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Tinto Group, River Derwent (Tasmania), Riverline (Hobart), Roaring Forties, Robert Fahey, Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, Robert Hughes (critic), Rohan Wilson, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart, Rosebery, Tasmania, Royal Hobart Show, Royal Launceston Show, Royce Hart, Rugby league, Rugby union, Ruins (Australian band), Saffron, Salmon as food, Sandstone, Savage River National Park, Second Boer War, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Seven (Southern Cross Austereo), Seven Network, Sheffield Shield, Silent film, Simon Baker, Simon Hanselmann, Single transferable vote, Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet, South Esk River, Southern Gospel Choir, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Southern Outlet, Hobart, Southwest National Park, Sovereign state, Special Broadcasting Service, St Kilda Football Club, St Michael's Collegiate School, States and territories of Australia, Steve Randell, Strahan, Tasmania, Striborg, Sullivans Cove, Supercars Championship, Sydney, Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Tamar Valley, Tasmania, Targa Tasmania, Tarkine, Tasman Bridge disaster, Tasman Peninsula, Tasman Sea, Tasmania cricket team, Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service, Tasmanian A-League Bid, Tasmanian AFL bid, Tasmanian devil, Tasmanian Electoral Commission, Tasmanian Greens, Tasmanian House of Assembly, Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, Tasmanian Legislative Council, Tasmanian Rugby League, Tasmanian Rugby Union, Tasmanian state election, 2002, Tasmanian state election, 2006, Tasmanian state election, 2010, Tasmanian state election, 2018, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, TasRail, Tassal, Tassielink Transit, Taste of Tasmania, Temperate rainforest, The Australian, The Hunter (2011 Australian film), The Innocents (Australian band), The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, The Mentalist, The Mole (Australia season 1), The Mole (Australian TV series), The Paradise Motel, The Roving Party, The Tale of Ruby Rose, The Year of Living Dangerously (novel), Thylacine, Tiger Tale, Tim Paine, Time in Australia, Tin, Tobias Furneaux, Total fertility rate, Trevallyn Dam, Truganini, TT-Line Company, Ulverstone, Tasmania, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Tasmania Group, University of Tasmania, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, Van Diemen's Land, Van Diemen's Land (film), Van Diemen's Land Company, Victoria (Australia), Victoria Cross, Violent Femmes, Virgin Australia, West Coast Wilderness Railway, Will Hodgman, WIN Television, Woodchopping, Xavier Doherty, Yellow wattlebird, York Park, Young Einstein, Zinc, 10 Days on the Island, 1967 Tasmanian fires. Expand index (385 more) »

Abalone

Abalone (or; via Spanish abulón, from Rumsen aulón) is a common name for any of a group of small to very large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.

New!!: Tasmania and Abalone · See more »

Abel Tasman

Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 – 10 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

New!!: Tasmania and Abel Tasman · See more »

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).

New!!: Tasmania and Aboriginal Australians · See more »

Aboriginal Tasmanians

The Aboriginal Tasmanians (Tasmanian: Palawa) are the indigenous people of the Australian state of Tasmania, located south of the mainland.

New!!: Tasmania and Aboriginal Tasmanians · See more »

ABT (TV station)

ABT is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Hobart, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and ABT (TV station) · See more »

Adventure Bay, Tasmania

Adventure Bay is the name of both a township and a geographical feature on the eastern side of Bruny Island, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Adventure Bay, Tasmania · See more »

AFL siren controversy

The AFL siren controversy (dubbed Sirengate) surrounded the conclusion and result of an Australian rules football match played on 30 April 2006 during Round 5 of the Australian Football League's 2006 season.

New!!: Tasmania and AFL siren controversy · See more »

Agfest

Agfest is a renowned annual agricultural field day held in the Australian state of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Agfest · See more »

Agricultural show

An agricultural show is a public event exhibiting the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with agriculture and animal husbandry.

New!!: Tasmania and Agricultural show · See more »

Airlines of Tasmania

Airlines of Tasmania, also known by the name Par-Avion in some markets, is a regional airline based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Airlines of Tasmania · See more »

Alannah Hill

Alannah Louise Hill (born 26 March 1962) is an Australian fashion designer, well known in Australia and internationally.

New!!: Tasmania and Alannah Hill · See more »

Alex Cisak

Aleksander Cisak (born 19 May 1989) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for A-League club Sydney FC.

New!!: Tasmania and Alex Cisak · See more »

Alexander Technique

The Alexander Technique (A.T.), named after its creator Frederick Matthias Alexander, is an educational process that was created to retrain habitual patterns of movement and posture.

New!!: Tasmania and Alexander Technique · See more »

Alpine climate

Alpine climate is the average weather (climate) for the regions above the tree line.

New!!: Tasmania and Alpine climate · See more »

Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

New!!: Tasmania and Anglicanism · See more »

Ansett Australia

Ansett Australia was a major Australian airline group, based in Melbourne.

New!!: Tasmania and Ansett Australia · See more »

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

New!!: Tasmania and Antarctica · See more »

Anthony van Diemen

Anthony van Diemen (also Antonie, Antonio, Anton, Antonius) (1593 – 19 April 1645) was a Dutch colonial governor.

New!!: Tasmania and Anthony van Diemen · See more »

Archibald Prize

The Archibald Prize was the first major prize for portraiture in Australian art.

New!!: Tasmania and Archibald Prize · See more »

Arctic Blast

Arctic Blast is a 2010 Australian-Canadian disaster film.

New!!: Tasmania and Arctic Blast · See more »

Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

New!!: Tasmania and Association football · See more »

Atlantic salmon

The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

New!!: Tasmania and Atlantic salmon · See more »

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

New!!: Tasmania and Australia · See more »

Australia Act 1986

The Australia Act 1986 is the short title of each of a pair of separate but related pieces of legislation: one an Act of the Commonwealth (i.e. federal) Parliament of Australia, the other an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

New!!: Tasmania and Australia Act 1986 · See more »

Australian Antarctic Division

The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) is a division of the Department of the Environment.

New!!: Tasmania and Australian Antarctic Division · See more »

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

New!!: Tasmania and Australian Broadcasting Corporation · See more »

Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the independent statistical agency of the Government of Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Australian Bureau of Statistics · See more »

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football in Australia and features only Australian teams.

New!!: Tasmania and Australian Football League · See more »

Australian Greens

The Australian Greens (commonly known as The Greens) is a green political party in Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Australian Greens · See more »

Australian House of Representatives

The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two Houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Australian House of Representatives · See more »

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Australian Labor Party · See more »

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

New!!: Tasmania and Australian rules football · See more »

Australian Senate

The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.

New!!: Tasmania and Australian Senate · See more »

Avoca, Tasmania

Avoca is a small village located south-east of Launceston in the island of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Avoca, Tasmania · See more »

Bass Highway, Tasmania

The Bass Highway is a highway in Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Bass Highway, Tasmania · See more »

Bass Strait

Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.

New!!: Tasmania and Bass Strait · See more »

Beaconsfield Mine collapse

The Beaconsfield Mine collapse occurred on 25 April 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Beaconsfield Mine collapse · See more »

Bell Bay Pulp Mill

The Bell Bay Pulp Mill, also known as the Tamar Valley Pulp Mill or Gunns Pulp Mill, was a proposed $2.3 billion pulp mill in which the former Gunns Limited was planning to build in the Tamar Valley, near Launceston, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Bell Bay Pulp Mill · See more »

Bellerive Oval

Bellerive Oval (currently known as Blundstone Arena for sponsorship reasons) is a cricket and Australian rules football ground located in Bellerive, a suburb on the eastern shore of Hobart, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Bellerive Oval · See more »

Berriedale, Tasmania

Berriedale is a suburb in the northern suburbs of Hobart, capital of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Berriedale, Tasmania · See more »

Bicameralism

A bicameral legislature divides the legislators into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses.

New!!: Tasmania and Bicameralism · See more »

Bill Mollison

Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison (4 May 1928 – 24 September 2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist.

New!!: Tasmania and Bill Mollison · See more »

Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

New!!: Tasmania and Biodiversity · See more »

Bishop and Clerk Islets

The Bishop and Clerk Islets are a group of islets, lying south of Macquarie Island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

New!!: Tasmania and Bishop and Clerk Islets · See more »

Black War

The Black War was the period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832.

New!!: Tasmania and Black War · See more »

Blackmans Bay, Tasmania

Blackmans Bay is a beachside suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Blackmans Bay, Tasmania · See more »

Boag's Brewery

Boag's Brewery (J. Boag & Son) is an Australian brewery company founded in 1883 by James Boag and his son, also named James, in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Boag's Brewery · See more »

Bob Brown

Robert James Brown (born 27 December 1944) is a former Australian politician, medical doctor, and environmentalist who is a former Senator, and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens.

New!!: Tasmania and Bob Brown · See more »

Bob Clifford

Dr.

New!!: Tasmania and Bob Clifford · See more »

Bob Hawke

Robert James Lee Hawke, (born 9 December 1929) is a former Australian politician who was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1983 to 1991.

New!!: Tasmania and Bob Hawke · See more »

Borders of the oceans

The borders of the oceans are the limits of the Earth's oceanic waters.

New!!: Tasmania and Borders of the oceans · See more »

Boundary Islet

Boundary Islet, historically known as North East Islet, part of the Hogan Island Group, is a islet that straddles the border of the Australian states of Victoria and Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Boundary Islet · See more »

Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated on the day after Christmas Day.

New!!: Tasmania and Boxing Day · See more »

Bradley Trevor Greive

Bradley Trevor Greive (born 22 February 1970) is an Australian author.

New!!: Tasmania and Bradley Trevor Greive · See more »

Brian Plomley

Norman James Brian Plomley, also known as Brian Plomley, (born 6 November 1912 – 8 April 1994) regarded by some as one of the most respected and scholarly of Australian historians and, until his death, in Launceston, the doyen of Tasmanian Aboriginal scholarship.

New!!: Tasmania and Brian Plomley · See more »

Brian Ritchie

Brian Ritchie (born 21 November 1960) is the bass guitarist for the alternative rock band Violent Femmes.

New!!: Tasmania and Brian Ritchie · See more »

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Brisbane · See more »

British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

New!!: Tasmania and British Empire · See more »

Burnie Airport

Burnie Airport, also called Burnie Wynyard Airport or Wynyard Airport, is a regional airport located adjacent to the town of Wynyard, about west from Burnie, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Burnie Airport · See more »

Burnie, Tasmania

Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Burnie, Tasmania · See more »

Bushranger

Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities.

New!!: Tasmania and Bushranger · See more »

Carrick, Tasmania

Carrick is a small historic village west of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, on the banks of the Liffey River.

New!!: Tasmania and Carrick, Tasmania · See more »

Cascade Brewery

Cascade Brewery is a brewery established in 1824 in South Hobart, Tasmania and is the oldest continually operating brewery in Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Cascade Brewery · See more »

Cataract Gorge

The Cataract Gorge is a river gorge in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, approximately 1.5 km from the city centre.

New!!: Tasmania and Cataract Gorge · See more »

Central Highlands (Tasmania)

The Central Highlands is a region in Tasmania, Australia where geographical and administrative boundaries closely coincide.

New!!: Tasmania and Central Highlands (Tasmania) · See more »

Central Plateau Conservation Area

The Central Plateau conservation area is an animal & plant conservation area in Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Central Plateau Conservation Area · See more »

Chernozem

Chernozem (r; "black soil") is a black-colored soil containing a high percentage of humus (4% to 16%), and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia.

New!!: Tasmania and Chernozem · See more »

Cherry

A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).

New!!: Tasmania and Cherry · See more »

Christopher Koch

Christopher John Koch AO (16 July 1932 – 23 September 2013) was an Australian novelist, known for his 1978 novel The Year of Living Dangerously, which was adapted into an award-winning film.

New!!: Tasmania and Christopher Koch · See more »

Cinema of Australia

The Australian film industry has its beginnings with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, the earliest feature film ever made.

New!!: Tasmania and Cinema of Australia · See more »

Colony of New South Wales

The colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State in the federal Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

New!!: Tasmania and Colony of New South Wales · See more »

Constantine Koukias

Constantine Koukias (born 14 October 1965) is a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam, where he is known by his Greek name of Konstantin Koukias.

New!!: Tasmania and Constantine Koukias · See more »

Constitution Dock

Constitution Dock is the harbour-side dock area of Hobart, the capital city of the Australian state of Tasmania, in the Port of Hobart, on the Derwent River.

New!!: Tasmania and Constitution Dock · See more »

Constitution of Australia

The Constitution of Australia is the supreme law under which the government of the Commonwealth of Australia operates, including its relationship to the States of Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Constitution of Australia · See more »

Convict

A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison".

New!!: Tasmania and Convict · See more »

Courtney Barnett

Courtney Melba Barnett (born 3 November 1987) is an Australian singer, songwriter and musician.

New!!: Tasmania and Courtney Barnett · See more »

Cradle Mountain

The Cradle Mountain is a mountain in the Central Highlands region of the Australian state of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Cradle Mountain · See more »

Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park

Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park is located in the Central Highlands area of Tasmania (Australia), 165 km northwest of Hobart.

New!!: Tasmania and Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park · See more »

Crayfish

Crayfish, also known as crawfish, crawdads, crawldads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs or yabbies, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related; taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea.

New!!: Tasmania and Crayfish · See more »

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

New!!: Tasmania and Cricket · See more »

Crocoite

Crocoite is a mineral consisting of lead chromate, PbCrO4, and crystallizing in the monoclinic crystal system.

New!!: Tasmania and Crocoite · See more »

Danielle Wood

Danielle Wood (born 11 August 1972) is a Tasmanian journalist, writer and academic.

New!!: Tasmania and Danielle Wood · See more »

Dave Haley

Dave Haley is an Australian drummer with the death metal band Psycroptic, the black metal band Ruins, both from Hobart, and the Melbourne grindcore band Blood Duster.

New!!: Tasmania and Dave Haley · See more »

David Bartlett

David John Bartlett (born 19 January 1968) is an Australian former politician in the state of Tasmania, serving as the 43rd Premier of Tasmania from May 2008 until January 2011.

New!!: Tasmania and David Bartlett · See more »

David Boon

David Clarence Boon MBE (born 29 December 1960) is a former Australian cricketer whose international playing career spanned the years 1984–1996.

New!!: Tasmania and David Boon · See more »

David Collins (lieutenant governor)

Colonel David Collins (3 March 1756 – 24 March 1810) was a British administrator of Britain's first Australian colonies.

New!!: Tasmania and David Collins (lieutenant governor) · See more »

David Foster (woodchopper)

David Foster OAM (born 20 March 1957) is a world champion woodchopper, and Tasmanian community figure.

New!!: Tasmania and David Foster (woodchopper) · See more »

David Macpherson (tennis)

David Macpherson (born 3 July 1967 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia) is a former professional male tennis player on the ATP Tour.

New!!: Tasmania and David Macpherson (tennis) · See more »

David Stephenson

David Stephenson is an English former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

New!!: Tasmania and David Stephenson · See more »

David Walsh (art collector)

David Dominic Walsh (born 1961) is an Australian professional gambler, art collector and businessman.

New!!: Tasmania and David Walsh (art collector) · See more »

Daylight saving time in Australia

The choice of whether to use daylight saving time (DST) in Australia is a matter for the individual states and territories.

New!!: Tasmania and Daylight saving time in Australia · See more »

Deny King

Charles Denison (Deny) King (12 September 190912 May 1991) was an Australian naturalist, ornithologist, environmentalist, painter and tin miner.

New!!: Tasmania and Deny King · See more »

Devonport Airport

Devonport Airport is a regional airport serving Devonport, a city in the Australian state of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Devonport Airport · See more »

Devonport, Tasmania

Devonport is a city in northern Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Devonport, Tasmania · See more »

Diabase

Diabase or dolerite or microgabbro is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.

New!!: Tasmania and Diabase · See more »

Dingo

The dingo (Canis familiaris or Canis familiaris dingo or Canis lupus dingo or Canis dingo) is a type of feral dog native to Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Dingo · See more »

Don Kay (composer)

Donald Henry Kay AM (born 25 January 1933, Smithton, Tasmania) is an Australian classical composer.

New!!: Tasmania and Don Kay (composer) · See more »

Dutch East Indies

The Dutch East Indies (or Netherlands East-Indies; Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Hindia Belanda) was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia.

New!!: Tasmania and Dutch East Indies · See more »

Dutch people

The Dutch (Dutch), occasionally referred to as Netherlanders—a term that is cognate to the Dutch word for Dutch people, "Nederlanders"—are a Germanic ethnic group native to the Netherlands.

New!!: Tasmania and Dutch people · See more »

Eddie Jones (rugby union)

Eddie Jones (born 30 January 1960) is an Australian rugby union coach and former player.

New!!: Tasmania and Eddie Jones (rugby union) · See more »

EFL League Two

The English Football League Two (often referred to as League Two for short or Sky Bet League Two for sponsorship reasons) is the third and lowest division of the English Football League (EFL) and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system.

New!!: Tasmania and EFL League Two · See more »

Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is currently the President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

New!!: Tasmania and Elizabeth Blackburn · See more »

England national rugby union team

The England national rugby union team competes in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Wales.

New!!: Tasmania and England national rugby union team · See more »

Enid Lyons

Dame Enid Muriel Lyons (née Burnell; 9 July 1897 – 2 September 1981) was an Australian politician who was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first woman to serve in federal cabinet.

New!!: Tasmania and Enid Lyons · See more »

Errol Flynn

Errol Leslie Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-born American actor who achieved fame in Hollywood after 1935.

New!!: Tasmania and Errol Flynn · See more »

Essie Davis

Esther "Essie" Davis (born 7 January 1970) is an Australian actress.

New!!: Tasmania and Essie Davis · See more »

Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

New!!: Tasmania and Estuary · See more »

Ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or racial groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.

New!!: Tasmania and Ethnic cleansing · See more »

Ethnic groups in Europe

The Indigenous peoples of Europe are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various indigenous groups that reside in the nations of Europe.

New!!: Tasmania and Ethnic groups in Europe · See more »

Eucalypt

Eucalypt is a descriptive name for woody plants with capsule fruiting bodies belonging to seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australasia: Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora, Stockwellia, Allosyncarpia, Eucalyptopsis and Arillastrum.

New!!: Tasmania and Eucalypt · See more »

Eucalyptus globulus

Eucalyptus globulus, the Tasmanian bluegum, southern blue-gum or blue gum, is an evergreen tree, one of the most widely cultivated trees native to Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Eucalyptus globulus · See more »

Evandale, Tasmania

Evandale is a small town in northern Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Evandale, Tasmania · See more »

Exploration

Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources.

New!!: Tasmania and Exploration · See more »

Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

New!!: Tasmania and Extinction · See more »

F. Matthias Alexander

Frederick Matthias Alexander (20 January 1869 – 10 October 1955) was an Australian actor who developed the Alexander Technique, an educational process applied to recognize and overcome reactive, habitual limitations in movement and thinking.

New!!: Tasmania and F. Matthias Alexander · See more »

Falls Festival

Falls Music & Arts Festival (commonly known as Falls) is a multi-day music festival held annually in Lorne (Victoria), Marion Bay (Tasmania), Yelgun (New South Wales) and Fremantle (Western Australia), Australia over the New Year's Eve and January period.

New!!: Tasmania and Falls Festival · See more »

Federal Group

Federal Group is a privately owned family company which operates significant tourism, hospitality, retail, casino and gaming assets in Tasmania, and a national sensitive freight company.

New!!: Tasmania and Federal Group · See more »

Federation of Australia

The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Federation of Australia · See more »

Fingal

Fingal is a county in Ireland.

New!!: Tasmania and Fingal · See more »

Fire-stick farming

Fire-stick farming was the practice of Indigenous Australians who regularly used fire to burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area.

New!!: Tasmania and Fire-stick farming · See more »

Firearm

A firearm is a portable gun (a barreled ranged weapon) that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of propellant within an ammunition cartridge.

New!!: Tasmania and Firearm · See more »

First French Empire

The First French Empire (Empire Français) was the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte of France and the dominant power in much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

New!!: Tasmania and First French Empire · See more »

Flinders Island

Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island located in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Flinders Island · See more »

For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life), appearing as a novel in 1874.

New!!: Tasmania and For the Term of His Natural Life · See more »

For the Term of His Natural Life (1927 film)

For the Term of His Natural Life is a 1927 Australian film, based on the novel by Marcus Clarke, directed, produced and co-wriiten by Norman Dawn.

New!!: Tasmania and For the Term of His Natural Life (1927 film) · See more »

Fossa (animal)

The fossa (or; Malagasy; Cryptoprocta ferox) is a cat-like, carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar.

New!!: Tasmania and Fossa (animal) · See more »

Franklin Dam controversy

The Franklin Dam or Gordon-below-Franklin Dam project was a proposed dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia, that was never constructed.

New!!: Tasmania and Franklin Dam controversy · See more »

Fremantle Football Club

The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL).

New!!: Tasmania and Fremantle Football Club · See more »

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, TAAF) is an overseas territory (Territoire d'outre-mer or TOM) of France.

New!!: Tasmania and French Southern and Antarctic Lands · See more »

Frenchmans Cap

The Frenchmans Cap is a mountain in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Frenchmans Cap · See more »

Freycinet National Park

Freycinet is a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia, 125 km northeast of Hobart.

New!!: Tasmania and Freycinet National Park · See more »

Geoffrey Dyer

Geoffrey Dyer (born 1947, Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 2003 with a portrait of Richard Flanagan.

New!!: Tasmania and Geoffrey Dyer · See more »

George Augustus Robinson

George Augustus Robinson (22 March 1791 – 18 October 1866) was a builder and untrained preacher.

New!!: Tasmania and George Augustus Robinson · See more »

George Bailey (cricketer)

George John Bailey (born 7 September 1982) is an Australian cricketer, who was formerly the captain of the Australian T20I team and vice-captain of the Australian ODI team.

New!!: Tasmania and George Bailey (cricketer) · See more »

George Bass

George Bass (30 January 1771 – after 5 February 1803) was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and George Bass · See more »

Glacial period

A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.

New!!: Tasmania and Glacial period · See more »

Gold Coast, Queensland

The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the Australian state of Queensland, approximately south-southeast of the state capital Brisbane and immediately north of the border with New South Wales.

New!!: Tasmania and Gold Coast, Queensland · See more »

Gondwana

Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Carboniferous (about 320 million years ago).

New!!: Tasmania and Gondwana · See more »

Government of Tasmania

The Government of Tasmania, also referred to as the Tasmanian Government, is the executive authority of the state of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Government of Tasmania · See more »

Graeme Murphy

Graeme Lloyd Murphy AO (born 2 November 1950) is an Australian dance choreographer.

New!!: Tasmania and Graeme Murphy · See more »

Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

New!!: Tasmania and Granite · See more »

Great Australian Bight

The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Great Australian Bight · See more »

Green party

A Green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence.

New!!: Tasmania and Green party · See more »

Hadspen, Tasmania

Hadspen is an Australian town on the South Esk River in the north of Tasmania, south west of Launceston.

New!!: Tasmania and Hadspen, Tasmania · See more »

Hannah Gadsby

Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian and writer.

New!!: Tasmania and Hannah Gadsby · See more »

Hawthorn Football Club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

New!!: Tasmania and Hawthorn Football Club · See more »

Heather Rose

Heather Marcelle Dalmas Rose (born 10 August 1964) is an Australian author.

New!!: Tasmania and Heather Rose · See more »

Hobart

Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Hobart · See more »

Hobart Devils

The Hobart Devils are a defunct professional basketball team that competed in Australia's National Basketball League (NBL).

New!!: Tasmania and Hobart Devils · See more »

Hobart International

The Hobart International is a women's professional tennis tournament held at the Hobart International Tennis Centre in Hobart, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Hobart International · See more »

Hobart International Airport

Hobart International Airport is an airport located in Cambridge, northeast of Hobart.

New!!: Tasmania and Hobart International Airport · See more »

Hobart International Tennis Centre

The Domain Tennis Centre is the premiere tennis facility in the state of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Hobart International Tennis Centre · See more »

Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart

The Hotel Grand Chancellor is a twelve-storey hotel located on the waterfront of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia The hotel opened in 1987 as the Sheraton and has since been taken over by the Grand Hotels International group.

New!!: Tasmania and Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart · See more »

Hudson Fysh

Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh, KBE, DFC (7 January 18956 April 1974) was an Australian aviator and businessman.

New!!: Tasmania and Hudson Fysh · See more »

Hung parliament

A hung parliament is a term used in legislatures under the Westminster system to describe a situation in which no particular political party or pre-existing coalition (also known as an alliance or bloc) has an absolute majority of legislators (commonly known as members or seats) in a parliament or other legislature.

New!!: Tasmania and Hung parliament · See more »

Huon Highway

The Huon Highway is an highway in southern Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Huon Highway · See more »

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro Tasmania, known for most of its history as the Hydro-Electric Commission or The Hydro, is the trading name of the Hydro-Electric Corporation, a Tasmanian Government business enterprise which is the predominant electricity generator in the state of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Hydro Tasmania · See more »

Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

New!!: Tasmania and Hydroelectricity · See more »

Ida Bay Railway

The Ida Bay Railway is a, narrow gauge Heritage Tramway that operates south of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Ida Bay Railway · See more »

IHOS Music Theatre and Opera

IHOS Music Theatre and Opera is a Tasmanian opera company was established in Hobart in 1990, by composer and artistic director Constantine Koukias, and production director Werner Ihlenfeld to create original music-theatre and opera works.

New!!: Tasmania and IHOS Music Theatre and Opera · See more »

Incat

Incat Tasmania is a manufacturer of high-speed craft (HSC) catamaran ferries.

New!!: Tasmania and Incat · See more »

Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.

New!!: Tasmania and Independent politician · See more »

Index of Australia-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Index of Australia-related articles · See more »

Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

New!!: Tasmania and Indigenous Australians · See more »

Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

New!!: Tasmania and Indigenous peoples · See more »

Infection

Infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agents and the toxins they produce.

New!!: Tasmania and Infection · See more »

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.

New!!: Tasmania and Island · See more »

Island magazine

Island Magazine is a quarterly literary publication produced in Hobart, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Island magazine · See more »

Jack Carington Smith

Jack Carington Smith (26 February 1908 – 19 March 1972) was an Australian artist from Launceston, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Jack Carington Smith · See more »

James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

New!!: Tasmania and James Cook · See more »

James McAuley

James Phillip McAuley (12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism.

New!!: Tasmania and James McAuley · See more »

Jean Stafford (musician)

Jean Stafford born at Latrobe, Tasmania) is an Australian country music artist. She has won three Golden Guitar awards and received two ARIA nominations. In 1989 Jean was officially crowned Australia's Queen of Country Music by Smoky Dawson. Jean Stafford is known as The Golden Voice of Country worldwide for her hit song Someday I'll Take Home The Roses released in 1982. Jean has received many honours and awards, including the key to the city of Nashville, Tennessee. Jean is the most awarded female country music singer in Australia. During the late 80s and early 90s Jean was a regular on the Midday Show hosted by Ray Martin.

New!!: Tasmania and Jean Stafford (musician) · See more »

Jerilderie Letter

The handwritten document known as the Jerilderie Letter was dictated by Australian bushranger Ned Kelly to fellow Kelly Gang member Joe Byrne in 1879.

New!!: Tasmania and Jerilderie Letter · See more »

Jetstar Airways

Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd, trading as Jetstar, is an Australian low-cost airline (self-described as "value based") headquartered in Melbourne.

New!!: Tasmania and Jetstar Airways · See more »

Jim Bacon

James Alexander Bacon, AC (15 May 195020 June 2004) was Premier of Tasmania from 1998 to 2004.

New!!: Tasmania and Jim Bacon · See more »

Jimmy Boyce

James Boyce (6 September 1947 – 25 January 1994), known as Jimmy Boyce, was a British Labour politician.

New!!: Tasmania and Jimmy Boyce · See more »

John Bowe (racing driver)

John Bowe (born 16 April 1954 in Devonport, Tasmania) is an Australian racing driver, presently racing a Holden Torana in the Touring Car Masters series.

New!!: Tasmania and John Bowe (racing driver) · See more »

John Bowen (colonist)

Rear-Admiral John Bowen RN (baptised 14 February 178020 October 1827) was a naval officer and colonial administrator, who led the first settlement of Tasmania at Risdon Cove.

New!!: Tasmania and John Bowen (colonist) · See more »

John Gellibrand

Major General Sir John Gellibrand, (5 December 1872 – 3 June 1945) was a senior Australian Army officer in the First World War, Chief Commissioner of the Victoria Police from 1920 to 1922, and a member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Tasmanian Division of Denison for the Nationalist Party from 1925 to 1928.

New!!: Tasmania and John Gellibrand · See more »

John Glover (artist)

John Glover (18 February 1767 – 9 December 1849) was an English-born Australian artist during the early colonial period of Australian art.

New!!: Tasmania and John Glover (artist) · See more »

John Oxley

John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (1784 – 25 May 1828) was an explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of British colonisation.

New!!: Tasmania and John Oxley · See more »

Joseph Lyons

Joseph Aloysius Lyons (15 September 1879 – 7 April 1939) was the tenth Prime Minister of Australia, serving from January 1932 until his death.

New!!: Tasmania and Joseph Lyons · See more »

Judge and Clerk Islets

The Judge and Clerk Islets are small islands, with a total land and reef area of no more than, lying north of Macquarie Island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

New!!: Tasmania and Judge and Clerk Islets · See more »

Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

New!!: Tasmania and Jurassic · See more »

Kanamaluka / Tamar River

The Tamar River/kanamaluka is a estuary located in northern Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Kanamaluka / Tamar River · See more »

Kate Gordon

Kate Gordon is an Australian writer of young adult fiction.

New!!: Tasmania and Kate Gordon · See more »

Kate Warner

Catherine Ann Warner (born 14 July 1948) is an Australian lawyer, legal academic, and the current Governor of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Kate Warner · See more »

Katherine Johnson

Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (born August 26, 1918) is an African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. manned spaceflights.

New!!: Tasmania and Katherine Johnson · See more »

Katherine Scholes

Katherine Anne Scholes (born 5 July 1959) is an Australian writer.

New!!: Tasmania and Katherine Scholes · See more »

King Island (Tasmania)

King Island is an island in the Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and King Island (Tasmania) · See more »

King Island Airport

King Island Airport is a small regional airport located near the town of Currie on King Island off the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and King Island Airport · See more »

Kingston, Tasmania

Kingston is a town on the outskirts of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Kingston, Tasmania · See more »

Kris McQuade

Kris McQuade (born 1952) is an Australian actress who has had many film, television and theatre roles.

New!!: Tasmania and Kris McQuade · See more »

Lake Pedder

Lake Pedder, once a glacial outwash lake, is a man-made impoundment and diversion lake located in the southwest of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Lake Pedder · See more »

Lara Giddings

Larissa Tahireh "Lara" Giddings (born 14 November 1972) is a former Australian politician who was the 44th Premier of Tasmania from 24 January 2011 until 31 March 2014, the first woman to hold the position.

New!!: Tasmania and Lara Giddings · See more »

Last glacial period

The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.

New!!: Tasmania and Last glacial period · See more »

Launceston Airport

Launceston Airport is a regional airport on the outskirts of Launceston, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Launceston Airport · See more »

Launceston, Tasmania

Launceston is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River (Kanamaluka).

New!!: Tasmania and Launceston, Tasmania · See more »

Leaching (agriculture)

In agriculture, leaching refers to the loss of water-soluble plant nutrients from the soil, due to rain and irrigation.

New!!: Tasmania and Leaching (agriculture) · See more »

Leader of the Opposition (Tasmania)

The Leader of the Opposition in Tasmania is the title of the leader of the largest minority party in the state lower house, the Tasmanian House of Assembly.

New!!: Tasmania and Leader of the Opposition (Tasmania) · See more »

Leyton Orient F.C.

Leyton Orient Football Club is a professional football club in Leyton, London, England.

New!!: Tasmania and Leyton Orient F.C. · See more »

Lian Tanner

Lian Tanner (born March 17, 1951, in Tasmania, Australia) is an Australian children's author who lives in southern Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Lian Tanner · See more »

Liawenee

Liawenee is a small town in Tasmania, Australia built near Great Lake and the River Ouse, and was established on 11 June 1920.

New!!: Tasmania and Liawenee · See more »

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is a major centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP).

New!!: Tasmania and Liberal Party of Australia · See more »

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

New!!: Tasmania and Limestone · See more »

Lion (2016 film)

Lion is a 2016 biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature debut) and written by Luke Davies, based on the non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley.

New!!: Tasmania and Lion (2016 film) · See more »

List of amphibians of Tasmania

This is a comprehensive list of amphibians of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and List of amphibians of Tasmania · See more »

List of Australian capital cities

There are eight capital cities in Australia, each of which functions as the seat of government for the state or territory in which it is located.

New!!: Tasmania and List of Australian capital cities · See more »

List of highways in Tasmania

The Highways in Tasmania generally expand from Hobart and other major cities with secondary roads interconnecting the highways to each other.

New!!: Tasmania and List of highways in Tasmania · See more »

List of islands of Tasmania

This is a list of islands of Tasmania, the smallest and southernmost state of Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and List of islands of Tasmania · See more »

List of schools in Tasmania

This is a list of schools in Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and List of schools in Tasmania · See more »

Local government areas of Tasmania

Local government areas (LGAs) in the Australian state of Tasmania describes the 29 organisations and processes by which towns and districts can manage their own affairs.

New!!: Tasmania and Local government areas of Tasmania · See more »

Longford, Tasmania

Longford is a town in the northern midlands of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Longford, Tasmania · See more »

Louisa Anne Meredith

Louisa Anne Meredith (20 July 1812 – 21 October 1895), also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator.

New!!: Tasmania and Louisa Anne Meredith · See more »

Luca Brasi (band)

Luca Brasi are an Australian rock band formed in St Helens, Tasmania in 2009.

New!!: Tasmania and Luca Brasi (band) · See more »

Luke Ockerby

Luke 'Thomas' Ockerby (born 17 May 1992) is an Australian cyclist from Ulverstone, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Luke Ockerby · See more »

Macquarie Harbour

Macquarie Harbour is a large, shallow, inlet, located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Macquarie Harbour · See more »

Macquarie Island

Macquarie Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, lies in the southwest Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica, at 54° 30' S, 158° 57' E.

New!!: Tasmania and Macquarie Island · See more »

Magma

Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.

New!!: Tasmania and Magma · See more »

Mainland Australia

Mainland Australia is the main land mass of the Commonwealth of Australia excluding Tasmania and other offshore islands and external territories (such as the Australian Antarctic Territory).

New!!: Tasmania and Mainland Australia · See more »

Manganinnie

Manganinnie is an AFI Award-winning 1980 film which follows the journey of Manganinnie, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman who searches for her tribe with the company of a young, lost white girl named Joanna.

New!!: Tasmania and Manganinnie · See more »

Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne

Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (22 May 1724 – 12 June 1772), with the surname sometimes spelt Dufresne, was a Breton-born French explorer who made important discoveries in the south Indian Ocean, in Tasmania and in New Zealand.

New!!: Tasmania and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne · See more »

Marcos Ambrose

Marcos Ambrose (born 1 September 1976) is an Australian retired racing driver.

New!!: Tasmania and Marcos Ambrose · See more »

Marcus Clarke

Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke FRSA (24 April 1846 – 2 August 1881) was an English-born Australian novelist, journalist, poet, editor, librarian and playwright.

New!!: Tasmania and Marcus Clarke · See more »

Margaret Scott (author)

Margaret Daphne Scott (20 June 1934 – 29 August 2005) was an Australian author, poet, comedian, educator and public intellectual.

New!!: Tasmania and Margaret Scott (author) · See more »

Maria Grenfell

Maria Grenfell (born 1969) is an Australian composer of New Zealand origin.

New!!: Tasmania and Maria Grenfell · See more »

Marion Bay, Tasmania

Marion Bay is a large bay and a bounded locality on the south-east coast of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Marion Bay, Tasmania · See more »

Marsupial

Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.

New!!: Tasmania and Marsupial · See more »

Martin Bryant

Martin John Bryant (born 7 May 1967) is an Australian man who is known for murdering 35 people and injuring 23 others in the Port Arthur massacre, one of the world's deadliest shooting sprees, in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia between 28–29 April 1996.

New!!: Tasmania and Martin Bryant · See more »

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, (Mary Elizabeth; née Donaldson; born 5 February 1972) is the wife of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark.

New!!: Tasmania and Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark · See more »

Matthew Richardson (footballer)

Matthew "Richo" Richardson (born 19 March 1975 in Devonport, Tasmania), is a retired Australian rules footballer and current media personality who represented Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL).

New!!: Tasmania and Matthew Richardson (footballer) · See more »

Melbourne Airport

Melbourne Airport, colloquially known as Tullamarine Airport, is the primary airport serving the city of Melbourne, and the second busiest airport in Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Melbourne Airport · See more »

Mersey River (Tasmania)

The Mersey River is a river on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Mersey River (Tasmania) · See more »

Metro Tasmania

Metro Tasmania, commonly called Metro, a Tasmanian Government business enterprise, is the largest bus operator in the state of Tasmania, Australia, with operations in the largest population centres of Hobart,, and.

New!!: Tasmania and Metro Tasmania · See more »

Midlands (Tasmania)

The Midlands is a region of Tasmania between Launceston and Hobart.

New!!: Tasmania and Midlands (Tasmania) · See more »

Military history of Australia during the Second Boer War

The military history of Australia during the Boer War is complex, and includes a period of history in which the six formerly autonomous British Australian colonies federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Military history of Australia during the Second Boer War · See more »

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is an Australian drama television series.

New!!: Tasmania and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries · See more »

MONA FOMA

MONA FOMA (an acronym for Museum of Old and New Art: Festival Of Music and Art, often further shortened to MOFO) is an annual festival held in January in Hobart, Tasmania, curated by Brian Ritchie bass player from the rock band Violent Femmes.

New!!: Tasmania and MONA FOMA · See more »

Moorilla Estate

Moorilla Estate is a winery located in the suburb of Berriedale, 12 km north of the city centre of Hobart, in Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Moorilla Estate · See more »

Mount Lyell (Tasmania)

Mount Lyell is a mountain in the West Coast Range of Western Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Mount Lyell (Tasmania) · See more »

Mount Ossa (Tasmania)

Mount Ossa is a mountain of the Pelion Range located in the Central Highlands region of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Mount Ossa (Tasmania) · See more »

Mount Read (Tasmania)

Mount Read is a mountain located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia, and is at the north west edge of the West Coast Range.

New!!: Tasmania and Mount Read (Tasmania) · See more »

Mount Wellington (Tasmania)

Mount Wellington, officially kunanyi / Mount Wellington, incorporating its Palawa kani name (Aboriginal: Unghbanyahletta or Poorawetter), is a mountain in the southeast coastal region of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Mount Wellington (Tasmania) · See more »

MS Fest

MS Fest was a music festival, held annually in Launceston, Tasmania Australia since 2006 until 2011 when it was announced that MS Fest 2012 will be held in Hobart, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and MS Fest · See more »

Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged.

New!!: Tasmania and Multiple sclerosis · See more »

Museum of Old and New Art

The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Museum of Old and New Art · See more »

MV Lake Illawarra

MV Lake Illawarra was a handysize bulk carrier of 7,274 tons in the service of the Australian National Line shipping company.

New!!: Tasmania and MV Lake Illawarra · See more »

Nan Chauncy

Nan Chauncy (28 May 1900 – 1 May 1970) was a British-born Australian children's writer.

New!!: Tasmania and Nan Chauncy · See more »

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.

New!!: Tasmania and Napoleonic Wars · See more »

NASCAR

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing.

New!!: Tasmania and NASCAR · See more »

National Basketball League (Australia)

The National Basketball League (NBL) is the pre-eminent professional men's basketball league in Australia and New Zealand.

New!!: Tasmania and National Basketball League (Australia) · See more »

National park

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes.

New!!: Tasmania and National park · See more »

National Premier Leagues Tasmania

The National Premier Leagues Tasmania is an Australian football (soccer) league covering all regions of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and National Premier Leagues Tasmania · See more »

Ned Kelly

Edward "Ned" Kelly (December 1854 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer.

New!!: Tasmania and Ned Kelly · See more »

Network Ten

Network Ten (commonly known as Channel Ten or simply Ten, officially stylised as TEN) is an Australian commercial television network.

New!!: Tasmania and Network Ten · See more »

New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and New South Wales · See more »

New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

New!!: Tasmania and New Zealand · See more »

Nine Network

The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Nine Network · See more »

Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island (Norfuk: Norf'k Ailen) is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, directly east of mainland Australia's Evans Head, and about from Lord Howe Island.

New!!: Tasmania and Norfolk Island · See more »

Norske Skog

Norske Skogindustrier ASA or Norske Skog, which translates as Norwegian Forest Industries, is a Norwegian pulp and paper company based in Halden, Norway and established in 1962.

New!!: Tasmania and Norske Skog · See more »

North Melbourne Football Club

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or less formally the Roos, the Kangas or North, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world.

New!!: Tasmania and North Melbourne Football Club · See more »

Nunatak

A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within (or at the edge of) an ice field or glacier.

New!!: Tasmania and Nunatak · See more »

Nyrstar

Nyrstar N.V. is a global multi-metals business, with a market leading position in zinc and lead and growing positions in other base and precious metals, such as copper, gold and silver.

New!!: Tasmania and Nyrstar · See more »

Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.

New!!: Tasmania and Old-growth forest · See more »

Olegas Truchanas

Olegas Truchanas (1923 - 6 January 1972) was a Lithuanian-Australian conservationist and nature photographer.

New!!: Tasmania and Olegas Truchanas · See more »

Oliver Heyward

Oliver Spencer Heyward (16 March 1926 – 15 December 2003) was an Australian Anglican bishop.

New!!: Tasmania and Oliver Heyward · See more »

Orange roughy

The orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus), also known as the red roughy, slimehead and deep sea perch, is a relatively large deep-sea fish belonging to the slimehead family (Trachichthyidae).

New!!: Tasmania and Orange roughy · See more »

Outline of Australia

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Australia: Australia refers to both the continent of Australia and to the Commonwealth of Australia, the sovereign country.

New!!: Tasmania and Outline of Australia · See more »

Oyster

Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.

New!!: Tasmania and Oyster · See more »

Palawa kani

Palawa kani is a constructed language created as a generic revival of the Tasmanian languages, the extinct languages once spoken by Aboriginal Tasmanians.

New!!: Tasmania and Palawa kani · See more »

Parliament of Tasmania

The Parliament of Tasmania is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Parliament of Tasmania · See more »

Pat Brassington

Pat Brassington is a contemporary Australian artist working in the field of digital art, and photography.

New!!: Tasmania and Pat Brassington · See more »

Paul Lennon

Paul Anthony Lennon (born 8 October 1955) is an Australian Labor Party politician.

New!!: Tasmania and Paul Lennon · See more »

Penal colony

A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory.

New!!: Tasmania and Penal colony · See more »

Peter Dombrovskis

Peter Dombrovskis (2 March 194528 March 1996) was an Australian photographer, known for his Tasmanian scenes.

New!!: Tasmania and Peter Dombrovskis · See more »

Peter Sculthorpe

Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE (29 April 1929 – 8 August 2014) was an Australian composer.

New!!: Tasmania and Peter Sculthorpe · See more »

Philip Gidley King

Captain Philip Gidley King (23 April 1758 – 3 September 1808) was the third Governor of New South Wales, and did much to civilise the young colony in the face of great obstacles.

New!!: Tasmania and Philip Gidley King · See more »

Phillip Aspinall

Phillip Aspinall (born 17 December 1959) is an Australian Anglican bishop.

New!!: Tasmania and Phillip Aspinall · See more »

Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element with symbol P and atomic number 15.

New!!: Tasmania and Phosphorus · See more »

Podzol

In soil science, Podzols (known as Spodosols in China and the United States of America and Podosols in Australia) are the typical soils of coniferous, or boreal forests.

New!!: Tasmania and Podzol · See more »

Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

New!!: Tasmania and Poland · See more »

Population genetics

Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and between populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology.

New!!: Tasmania and Population genetics · See more »

Port Arthur massacre (Australia)

The Port Arthur massacre of 28–29 April 1996 was a mass shooting in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded in Port Arthur, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Port Arthur massacre (Australia) · See more »

Port Arthur, Tasmania

Port Arthur is a small town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Port Arthur, Tasmania · See more »

Postal voting

Postal voting is voting in an election whereby ballot papers are distributed to electors or returned by post, in contrast to electors voting in person at a polling station or electronically via an electronic voting system.

New!!: Tasmania and Postal voting · See more »

Postcodes in Australia

Postcodes are used in Australia to more efficiently sort and route mail within the Australian postal system.

New!!: Tasmania and Postcodes in Australia · See more »

Precambrian

The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pЄ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.

New!!: Tasmania and Precambrian · See more »

Prime Minister of Australia

The Prime Minister of Australia (sometimes informally abbreviated to PM) is the head of government of Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Prime Minister of Australia · See more »

Privy council

A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.

New!!: Tasmania and Privy council · See more »

Proportional representation

Proportional representation (PR) characterizes electoral systems by which divisions into an electorate are reflected proportionately into the elected body.

New!!: Tasmania and Proportional representation · See more »

Protected areas of Tasmania

Protected areas of Tasmania consists of protected areas located within Tasmania and its immediate onshore waters, including Macquarie Island.

New!!: Tasmania and Protected areas of Tasmania · See more »

Psamment

In USDA soil taxonomy, a psamment is defined as an entisol which consists basically of unconsolidated sand deposits, often found in shifting sand dunes but also in areas of very coarse-textured parent material subject to millions of years of weathering.

New!!: Tasmania and Psamment · See more »

Psycroptic

Psycroptic is an Australian technical death metal band formed in Hobart in 1999.

New!!: Tasmania and Psycroptic · See more »

Pyrethrum

Pyrethrum was a genus of several Old World plants now classified as Chrysanthemum or Tanacetum (e.g., C. coccineum) which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads.

New!!: Tasmania and Pyrethrum · See more »

Qantas

Qantas Airways is the flag carrier of Australia and its largest airline by fleet size, international flights and international destinations.

New!!: Tasmania and Qantas · See more »

QantasLink

QantasLink is a regional brand of Australian airline Qantas and is an affiliate member of the Oneworld airline alliance.

New!!: Tasmania and QantasLink · See more »

Quartzite

Quartzite (from Quarzit) is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.

New!!: Tasmania and Quartzite · See more »

Quaternary

Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

New!!: Tasmania and Quaternary · See more »

Queenstown, Tasmania

Queenstown is a town in the West Coast region of the island of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Queenstown, Tasmania · See more »

Rachael Taylor

Rachael May Taylor (born 11 July 1984) is an Australian actress and model.

New!!: Tasmania and Rachael Taylor · See more »

Rachael Treasure

Rachael Jennifer Treasure (born 4 December 1968) is an Australian journalist, author and novelist.

New!!: Tasmania and Rachael Treasure · See more »

Rail transport in Tasmania

Rail transport in Tasmania consists of a network of narrow gauge track of reaching virtually all cities and major towns in the island state of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Rail transport in Tasmania · See more »

Rallying

Rally is a form of motorsport that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars.

New!!: Tasmania and Rallying · See more »

Real tennis

Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis (originally called "lawn tennis") is derived.

New!!: Tasmania and Real tennis · See more »

Redline Coaches

Tasmania's Own Redline Coaches is Tasmania's largest coach operator.

New!!: Tasmania and Redline Coaches · See more »

Regional Express Airlines

Regional Express (also known as Rex) is an Australian airline based in Mascot, New South Wales.

New!!: Tasmania and Regional Express Airlines · See more »

Regions of Tasmania

In the Australian state of Tasmania, there are many areas which are commonly known by regional names.

New!!: Tasmania and Regions of Tasmania · See more »

Responsible government

Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.

New!!: Tasmania and Responsible government · See more »

Rhys Jones (archaeologist)

Rhys Maengwyn Jones (26 February 1941 – 19 September 2001) was a Welsh-Australian archeologist.

New!!: Tasmania and Rhys Jones (archaeologist) · See more »

Richard Flanagan

Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian novelist from Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Richard Flanagan · See more »

Richie Porte

Richard Julian "Richie" Porte (born 30 January 1985) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer on the and two-time winner of Paris–Nice.

New!!: Tasmania and Richie Porte · See more »

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting, AO (born 19 December 1974), is a former Australian international cricketer, and two-time World Cup winning captain in 2003 and 2007, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.

New!!: Tasmania and Ricky Ponting · See more »

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.

New!!: Tasmania and Rio de Janeiro · See more »

Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto Group is an Australian-British multinational and one of the world's largest metals and mining corporations.

New!!: Tasmania and Rio Tinto Group · See more »

River Derwent (Tasmania)

The Derwent River is a river located in Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and River Derwent (Tasmania) · See more »

Riverline (Hobart)

Riverline also known as the Northern Suburbs Railway is a proposed AU$100 million light rail system that would traverse the southernmost section of the South Railway Line, through the northern suburbs of Hobart, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Riverline (Hobart) · See more »

Roaring Forties

The Roaring Forties are strong westerly winds found in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees.

New!!: Tasmania and Roaring Forties · See more »

Robert Fahey

Robert Leo Fahey (born 30 April 1968, in Hobart, Tasmania), nicknamed "Bag", is an Australian real tennis player and the current World Champion of the sport, holding the title from 16 March 1994 to 21 May 2016.

New!!: Tasmania and Robert Fahey · See more »

Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire

Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (6 May 17604 February 1816), styled Lord Hobart from 1793 to 1804, was a British Tory politician.

New!!: Tasmania and Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire · See more »

Robert Hughes (critic)

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 19386 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries.

New!!: Tasmania and Robert Hughes (critic) · See more »

Rohan Wilson

Rohan Wilson is an Australian novelist who was born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania where he currently lives.

New!!: Tasmania and Rohan Wilson · See more »

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Australia located in Hobart and covering Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart · See more »

Rosebery, Tasmania

Rosebery is a town on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Rosebery, Tasmania · See more »

Royal Hobart Show

The Royal Hobart Show is an annual event held in October at the Royal Showgrounds in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Royal Hobart Show · See more »

Royal Launceston Show

The Royal Launceston Show is an annual event held at the Launceston Showgrounds in Inveresk in October and is hosted by the Royal National Agricultural and Pastoral Society of Tasmania (RNAPS).

New!!: Tasmania and Royal Launceston Show · See more »

Royce Hart

Royce Desmond Hart (born 10 February 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s and 1970s.

New!!: Tasmania and Royce Hart · See more »

Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

New!!: Tasmania and Rugby league · See more »

Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

New!!: Tasmania and Rugby union · See more »

Ruins (Australian band)

Ruins is an Australian black metal band, based in Hobart, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Ruins (Australian band) · See more »

Saffron

Saffron (pronounced or) is a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as the "saffron crocus".

New!!: Tasmania and Saffron · See more »

Salmon as food

Salmon is a popular food.

New!!: Tasmania and Salmon as food · See more »

Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

New!!: Tasmania and Sandstone · See more »

Savage River National Park

Savage River National Park is located in north-west Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Savage River National Park · See more »

Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.

New!!: Tasmania and Second Boer War · See more »

Secretary of State for the Colonies

The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies.

New!!: Tasmania and Secretary of State for the Colonies · See more »

Seven (Southern Cross Austereo)

Seven Regional is an Australian television network available in Tasmania, Darwin, Regional South Australia, and Remote Central and Eastern Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Seven (Southern Cross Austereo) · See more »

Seven Network

The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

New!!: Tasmania and Seven Network · See more »

Sheffield Shield

The Sheffield Shield is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Sheffield Shield · See more »

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

New!!: Tasmania and Silent film · See more »

Simon Baker

Simon Baker (born 30 July 1969) is an Australian actor and director.

New!!: Tasmania and Simon Baker · See more »

Simon Hanselmann

Simon Hanselmann is a Tasmanian-born cartoonist best known for his Megg, Mogg and Owl series.

New!!: Tasmania and Simon Hanselmann · See more »

Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote (STV) is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through ranked voting in multi-seat organizations or constituencies (voting districts).

New!!: Tasmania and Single transferable vote · See more »

Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet

Lieutenant-General Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet, KCH, PC (21 June 1784 – 19 September 1854) was Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras (1814–1822), Van Diemen's Land (now the State of Tasmania, part of Australia) (1823–1837) and Upper Canada (1838–1841).

New!!: Tasmania and Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet · See more »

South Esk River

The South Esk River, the longest river in Tasmania, is a major perennial river located in the northern region of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and South Esk River · See more »

Southern Gospel Choir

The Southern Gospel Choir is a gospel choir based at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music in Hobart, Tasmania, and is directed by Dr.

New!!: Tasmania and Southern Gospel Choir · See more »

Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.

New!!: Tasmania and Southern Hemisphere · See more »

Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean or the Austral Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

New!!: Tasmania and Southern Ocean · See more »

Southern Outlet, Hobart

The Southern Outlet (the Outlet) is a major highway in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart and acts as one of the city's 3 major radial highways, connecting traffic from the Hobart city centre with commuters from the southern suburbs as well as intrastate traffic from the south of the state.

New!!: Tasmania and Southern Outlet, Hobart · See more »

Southwest National Park

Southwest National Park is a national park located in the south-west of Tasmania, Australia and forms part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

New!!: Tasmania and Southwest National Park · See more »

Sovereign state

A sovereign state is, in international law, a nonphysical juridical entity that is represented by one centralized government that has sovereignty over a geographic area.

New!!: Tasmania and Sovereign state · See more »

Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network.

New!!: Tasmania and Special Broadcasting Service · See more »

St Kilda Football Club

The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and St Kilda Football Club · See more »

St Michael's Collegiate School

St Michael's Collegiate School, colloquially known as "Collegiate", is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and St Michael's Collegiate School · See more »

States and territories of Australia

Australia (officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia) is a federation of six states, together with ten federal territories.

New!!: Tasmania and States and territories of Australia · See more »

Steve Randell

Stephen Grant Randell (born 19 February 1956) is a former Australian Test cricket match umpire, the first to come from Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Steve Randell · See more »

Strahan, Tasmania

Strahan (pronounced "straw-n"), is a small town and former port on the west coast of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Strahan, Tasmania · See more »

Striborg

Striborg is a black metal / ambient project of Australian musician Russell Menzies.

New!!: Tasmania and Striborg · See more »

Sullivans Cove

Sullivans Cove is on the River Derwent adjacent to the Hobart CBD in Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Sullivans Cove · See more »

Supercars Championship

The Supercars Championship (known as the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship for sponsorship purposes) is a touring car racing category based in Australia and run as an International Series under Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) regulations.

New!!: Tasmania and Supercars Championship · See more »

Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

New!!: Tasmania and Sydney · See more »

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race is an annual event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, New South Wales on Boxing Day and finishing in Hobart, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race · See more »

Tamar Valley, Tasmania

The Tamar Valley is a valley in Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Tamar Valley, Tasmania · See more »

Targa Tasmania

Targa Tasmania is a tarmac-based rally event held on the island state of Tasmania, Australia, annually since 1992.

New!!: Tasmania and Targa Tasmania · See more »

Tarkine

The Tarkine (indigenous name: takayna) is an area containing the Savage River National Park in the north west Tasmania, Australia, which environmental non-government organisations (ENGOs) claim contains significant areas of wilderness.

New!!: Tasmania and Tarkine · See more »

Tasman Bridge disaster

The Tasman Bridge disaster occurred on the evening of 5 January 1975, in Hobart, the capital city of Australia's island state of Tasmania, when a bulk ore carrier travelling up the Derwent River collided with several pylons of the Tasman Bridge, causing a large section of the bridge deck to collapse onto the ship and into the river below.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasman Bridge disaster · See more »

Tasman Peninsula

The Tasman Peninsula is a peninsula located in south-east Tasmania, Australia, approximately by the Arthur Highway, south-east of Hobart.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasman Peninsula · See more »

Tasman Sea

The Tasman Sea (Māori: Te Tai-o-Rehua) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasman Sea · See more »

Tasmania cricket team

The Tasmanian cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmania cricket team · See more »

Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service

Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service is the government body responsible for protected areas of Tasmania on public land, such as national parks, historic sites and regional reserves.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service · See more »

Tasmanian A-League Bid

A-League expansion in Tasmania has been propsed since the establishment of the A-League in 2005.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian A-League Bid · See more »

Tasmanian AFL bid

A Tasmanian AFL team is a proposed team that would join the Australian Football League (AFL).

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian AFL bid · See more »

Tasmanian devil

The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian devil · See more »

Tasmanian Electoral Commission

The Tasmanian Electoral Commission (TEC) in Tasmania, Australia, is an independent office established in 2005 which conducts parliamentary and local government elections in Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian Electoral Commission · See more »

Tasmanian Greens

The Tasmanian Greens are a political party in Australia which developed from numerous environmental campaigns in Tasmania, including the flooding of Lake Pedder and the Franklin Dam campaign.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian Greens · See more »

Tasmanian House of Assembly

The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian House of Assembly · See more »

Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture

The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) is a research institute in Tasmania dedicated to research and development of sustainable agricultural industries.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture · See more »

Tasmanian Legislative Council

The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian Legislative Council · See more »

Tasmanian Rugby League

The Tasmanian Rugby League is responsible for administering the game of rugby league in the Australian state of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian Rugby League · See more »

Tasmanian Rugby Union

The Tasmanian Rugby Union, or TRU, is the governing body for the sport of rugby union within the state of Tasmania in Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian Rugby Union · See more »

Tasmanian state election, 2002

A general election for the Tasmanian House of Assembly was held on Saturday 20 July 2002.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian state election, 2002 · See more »

Tasmanian state election, 2006

An election for the House of Assembly (lower house) was held in the Australian state of Tasmania on 18 March 2006, the same day as the South Australian elections.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian state election, 2006 · See more »

Tasmanian state election, 2010

The 2010 Tasmanian state election was held on 20 March 2010 to elect members to the Tasmanian House of Assembly.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian state election, 2010 · See more »

Tasmanian state election, 2018

The 2018 Tasmanian state election was held on 3 March 2018 to elect all 25 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian state election, 2018 · See more »

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is a symphony orchestra based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra · See more »

Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area is a World Heritage Site--> in Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area · See more »

TasRail

TasRail is the trading name of Tasmanian Railway Proprietary Limited, a Tasmanian Government state-owned enterprise that has operated the mainline railways in Tasmania since September 2009.

New!!: Tasmania and TasRail · See more »

Tassal

Tassal is an Australian salmon farming company founded in 1986 and based in Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Tassal · See more »

Tassielink Transit

Tasslielink Transit is a bus and coach operator in Hobart and Launceston, Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Tassielink Transit · See more »

Taste of Tasmania

The Taste of Tasmania is Tasmania's largest food and wine festival.

New!!: Tasmania and Taste of Tasmania · See more »

Temperate rainforest

Temperate rainforests are coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rainfall.

New!!: Tasmania and Temperate rainforest · See more »

The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

New!!: Tasmania and The Australian · See more »

The Hunter (2011 Australian film)

The Hunter is a 2011 Australian drama film, directed by Daniel Nettheim and produced by Vincent Sheehan, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Julia Leigh.

New!!: Tasmania and The Hunter (2011 Australian film) · See more »

The Innocents (Australian band)

The Innocents are a power pop band formed in Hobart, Tasmania in 1975.

New!!: Tasmania and The Innocents (Australian band) · See more »

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce is a 2008 Australian film directed by Michael James Rowland starring Irish actors Adrian Dunbar as Philip Conolly and Ciarán McMenamin as bushranger Alexander Pearce and an ensemble Australian cast, including Dan Wyllie, Don Hany and Chris Haywood.

New!!: Tasmania and The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce · See more »

The Mentalist

The Mentalist is an American drama television series that ran from September 23, 2008, until February 18, 2015, broadcasting 151 episodes over seven seasons, on CBS.

New!!: Tasmania and The Mentalist · See more »

The Mole (Australia season 1)

The first season of the Australian version of The Mole aired between 27 February and 24 April 2000, on Seven Network.

New!!: Tasmania and The Mole (Australia season 1) · See more »

The Mole (Australian TV series)

The Mole is an Australian reality television series that aired on the Seven Network.

New!!: Tasmania and The Mole (Australian TV series) · See more »

The Paradise Motel

The Paradise Motel are an independent Australian rock band which formed in Hobart in 1994.

New!!: Tasmania and The Paradise Motel · See more »

The Roving Party

The Roving Party is a 2011 novel written by Tasmanian author Rohan Wilson.

New!!: Tasmania and The Roving Party · See more »

The Tale of Ruby Rose

The Tale of Ruby Rose is an Australian movie, released in 1988.

New!!: Tasmania and The Tale of Ruby Rose · See more »

The Year of Living Dangerously (novel)

The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1978 novel by Christopher Koch in which a male Australian journalist, a female British diplomat, and a Chinese-Australian male dwarf interact in Indonesia in the summer and autumn of 1965.

New!!: Tasmania and The Year of Living Dangerously (novel) · See more »

Thylacine

The thylacine (or, also; Thylacinus cynocephalus) was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times.

New!!: Tasmania and Thylacine · See more »

Tiger Tale

Tiger Tale is a children's picture book illustrated by Marion Isham and written by Steve Isham.

New!!: Tasmania and Tiger Tale · See more »

Tim Paine

Timothy David Paine (born 8 December 1984) is an Australian international cricketer who is currently the captain of the Australia national team in Test and One Day International cricket.

New!!: Tasmania and Tim Paine · See more »

Time in Australia

Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00).

New!!: Tasmania and Time in Australia · See more »

Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.

New!!: Tasmania and Tin · See more »

Tobias Furneaux

Captain Tobias Furneaux (21 August 1735 – 18 September 1781) was an English navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of exploration.

New!!: Tasmania and Tobias Furneaux · See more »

Total fertility rate

The total fertility rate (TFR), sometimes also called the fertility rate, absolute/potential natality, period total fertility rate (PTFR), or total period fertility rate (TPFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if.

New!!: Tasmania and Total fertility rate · See more »

Trevallyn Dam

The Trevallyn Dam is a dam on the South Esk River in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia and is used to provide water for hydroelectricity.

New!!: Tasmania and Trevallyn Dam · See more »

Truganini

Truganini (c. 1812 – 8 May 1876) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian (Palawa).

New!!: Tasmania and Truganini · See more »

TT-Line Company

TT-Line Company is a company operating ferries from Tasmania to mainland Australia since 1985.

New!!: Tasmania and TT-Line Company · See more »

Ulverstone, Tasmania

Ulverstone is a town on the northern coast of Tasmania, Australia on the mouth of the Leven River, on Bass Strait.

New!!: Tasmania and Ulverstone, Tasmania · See more »

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

New!!: Tasmania and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · See more »

United Tasmania Group

The United Tasmania Group (UTG) is generally acknowledged as the world's first Green party to contest elections.

New!!: Tasmania and United Tasmania Group · See more »

University of Tasmania

The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university primarily located in Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and University of Tasmania · See more »

UTC+10:00

UTC+10:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +10.

New!!: Tasmania and UTC+10:00 · See more »

UTC+11:00

UTC+11:00 is an identifier for an +11 hour time offset from UTC.

New!!: Tasmania and UTC+11:00 · See more »

Van Diemen's Land

Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Van Diemen's Land · See more »

Van Diemen's Land (film)

Van Diemen's Land is a 2009 Australian thriller set in 1822 in colonial Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Van Diemen's Land (film) · See more »

Van Diemen's Land Company

The Van Diemen's Land Company (also known as Van Dieman Land Company) is a farming corporation in the Australian state of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Van Diemen's Land Company · See more »

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Victoria (Australia) · See more »

Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

New!!: Tasmania and Victoria Cross · See more »

Violent Femmes

Violent Femmes is an American folk punk band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, initially active from 1980 to 2009.

New!!: Tasmania and Violent Femmes · See more »

Virgin Australia

Virgin Australia Airlines is Australia's second-largest airline after Qantas and it is the largest airline by fleet size to use the Virgin brand.

New!!: Tasmania and Virgin Australia · See more »

West Coast Wilderness Railway

The West Coast Wilderness Railway is a reconstruction of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company railway in Tasmania between Queenstown and Regatta Point, Strahan.

New!!: Tasmania and West Coast Wilderness Railway · See more »

Will Hodgman

William Edward Felix Hodgman (born 20 April 1969) is an Australian politician who is the 45th and current Premier of Tasmania.

New!!: Tasmania and Will Hodgman · See more »

WIN Television

WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales.

New!!: Tasmania and WIN Television · See more »

Woodchopping

Woodchopping (also spelled wood-chopping or wood chopping), called woodchop for short, is a sport that has been around for hundreds of years in several cultures.

New!!: Tasmania and Woodchopping · See more »

Xavier Doherty

Xavier John Doherty (born 22 November 1982 in Scottsdale, Tasmania) is a former Australian international cricketer who played Australian domestic cricket with Tasmania and internationally for Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and Xavier Doherty · See more »

Yellow wattlebird

The yellow wattlebird (Anthochaera paradoxa) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae.

New!!: Tasmania and Yellow wattlebird · See more »

York Park

York Park is a sports ground in the Inveresk and York Park Precinct, Launceston, Australia.

New!!: Tasmania and York Park · See more »

Young Einstein

Young Einstein is a 1988 Australian comedy film written, produced, directed by and starring Yahoo Serious.

New!!: Tasmania and Young Einstein · See more »

Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

New!!: Tasmania and Zinc · See more »

10 Days on the Island

Ten Days on the Island is Tasmania’s statewide biennial multi art-form festival.

New!!: Tasmania and 10 Days on the Island · See more »

1967 Tasmanian fires

The 1967 Tasmanian fires were an Australian natural disaster which occurred on 7 February 1967, an event which came to be known as the Black Tuesday bushfires.

New!!: Tasmania and 1967 Tasmanian fires · See more »

Redirects here:

AU-TAS, Apple Isle, Geography of Tasmania, Geography of tasmania, Tasmania (Australia), Tasmania (island), Tasmania - Australia, Tasmania, Australia, Tasmanian, Tasmanian cuisine, Tasmanian people, Tasmnaia, Taswegian, Tazzie, Tsmnia.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »