Tom Russell sets Van Diemen's Land as the ship's destination in his song "Isaac Lewis" on the album "Modern Art".

Nothofagus cunninghamii (myrtle beech) – the most abundant temperate rainforest canopy species found in Tasmania. Lagarostrobos franklinii (Huon pine) – one of the oldest-lived tree species, and a self-preserving timber. Climate Statistics for Launceston". Bureau of Meteorology. Archived from the original on 15 March 2020 . Retrieved 28 October 2017. About 4.5% of people in Tasmania follows non-Christian religion mainly Hinduism (1.7%), Buddhism (1.0%) and Islam (0.9%). [132] From the early 1800s to the 1853 abolition of penal transportation (known simply as "transportation"), Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia. Following the suspension of transportation to New South Wales, all transported convicts were sent to Van Diemen's Land. In total, some 73,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land or about 40% of all convicts sent to Australia. [18]Tasmania was the first place in the southern hemisphere to have electric lights, starting with Launceston in 1885 and Zeehan in 1900. The state economy was riding mining prosperity until World War I. In 1901, the state population was 172,475. [66] The 1910 foundation of what would become Hydro Tasmania began to shape urban patterns, as well as future major damming programs. [67] Hydro's influence culminated in the 1970s when the state government announced plans to flood environmentally significant Lake Pedder. As a result of the eventual flooding of Lake Pedder, the world's first green party was established; the United Tasmania Group. [68] National and international attention surrounded the campaign against the Franklin Dam in the early 1980s. Australian rules football in Tasmania is the most watched form of football and a Tasmanian team was awarded a license to enter the Australian Football League (AFL) in 2028 to be based out of a new Macquarie Point Stadium. AFL matches have been played since 2001 at Aurora Stadium in Launceston and Bellerive Oval in Hobart. Local leagues include the North West Football League and Tasmanian State League. Brendan Whiting's book Victims of Tyranny, gives an account of the lives of the Irish rebels, the Fitzgerald convict brothers who were sent to help open up the north of Van Diemen's Land in 1805, under the leadership of the explorer Colonel William Paterson. The White Shield – A circular white ground with a diameter equal to three-sevenths of a breadth of the flag and positioned with its centre one-quarter of the length of the flag from the edge of the fly and on the line between the upper and lower quarters.

Van Diemens Land". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018 . Retrieved 3 September 2018. At the 2002 state election, the Labor Party won 14 of the 25 House seats. The people decreased their vote for the Liberal Party; representation in the Parliament fell to seven seats. The Greens won four seats, with over 18% of the popular vote, the highest proportion of any Green party in any parliament in the world at that time. It is just in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. The crater is a rimless circular flat-floored depression, 1.2km (0.75mi) in diameter, in mountainous and heavily forested terrain. It is East of the West Coast Range and the former North Mount Lyell Railway formation. In the southern midlands as far south as Hobart, the dolerite is underlaid by sandstone and similar sedimentary stones. In the southwest, Precambrian quartzites were formed from very ancient sea sediments and form strikingly sharp ridges and ranges, such as Federation Peak or Frenchmans Cap. In 1773, Tobias Furneaux in HMS Adventure, explored a great part of the south and east coasts of Van Diemen's Land and made the earliest British chart of the island. [4] He discovered the opening to D'Entrecasteaux Channel and, at Bruny Island, named Adventure Bay for his ship. [5] [6]

7. Much of Tasmania is protected.

Aboriginal Life Pre-Invasion". www.utas.edu.au. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018 . Retrieved 3 September 2018. Tasmanian State Emblems". parliament.tas.gov.au. Parliament of Tasmania. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018 . Retrieved 1 June 2015. Tasmania features a number of separated and continuous mountain ranges. The majority of the state is defined by a significant dolerite exposure, though the western half of the state is older and more rugged, featuring buttongrass plains, temperate rainforests, and quartzite ranges, notably Federation Peak and Frenchmans Cap. The presence of these mountain ranges is a primary factor in the rain shadow effect, where the western half receives the majority of rainfall, which also influences the types of vegetation that can grow. The Central Highlands feature a large plateau which forms a number of ranges and escarpments on its north side, tapering off along the south, and radiating into the highest mountain ranges in the west. At the north-west of this, another plateau radiates into a system of hills where takayna / Tarkine is located. Edible Plants of Tasmania" (PDF). National Landcare Programme, NRM North. Australian Government. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 September 2021 . Retrieved 4 September 2021.

The demonym for inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land was "Van Diemonian", though contemporaries used the spelling "Vandemonian". [1] Anthony Trollope used the latter term; "They are (the Vandemonians) united in their declaration that the cessation of the coming of convicts has been their ruin." [2] Birds". DPIPWE. Tasmanian Government. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021 . Retrieved 2 September Climate of Launceston". Australian BOM. Archived from the original on 22 February 2009 . Retrieved 1 January 2009.Tasmanian Gothic is a literary genre which expresses the island state's "peculiar 'otherness' in relation to the mainland, as a remote, mysterious and self-enclosed place." [165] Marcus Clarke's novel For the Term of his Natural Life, written in the 1870s and set in convict era Tasmania, is a seminal example. This distinctive Gothic is not just restricted to literature, but can be represented through all the arts, such as in painting, music, or architecture. Russell Falls". Waterfalls of Tasmania. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021 . Retrieved 4 September 2021. Proclamation of Tasmanian floral emblem". Tasmanian Government Gazette. Parliament of Tasmania. 27 November 1962. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018 . Retrieved 23 January 2013. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Furneaux, Tobias". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.11 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.362. On 3 December 1975, a government proclamation by Governor Sir Stanley Burbury, and endorsed by Premier Bill Neilson established it as the official Tasmanian flag, although it had technically already been 'officially' adopted when it was gazetted in 1876. Since that time it has been acceptable for private citizens to use the flag, although it is uncommon to see them doing so. [3] Proposed changes [ edit ]

Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre – Official Aboriginal and Dual Names of places". tacinc.com.au. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019 . Retrieved 23 September 2019. Climate statistics: Hobart (Ellerslie Road)". Bureau of Meteorology. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019 . Retrieved 30 June 2017. Tasmania is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642. Tasman named the island Anthony van Diemen's Land after his sponsor Anthony van Diemen, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies. The name was later shortened to Van Diemen's Land by the British. It was officially renamed Tasmania in honour of its first European discoverer on 1 January 1856. [27] Robson, L.L. (1991) A history of Tasmania. Volume II. Colony and state from 1856 to the 1980s Melbourne, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553031-4.

Climate Statistics for Launceston". Australian Government. Bureau of Meteorology. Archived from the original on 6 January 2020 . Retrieved 5 November 2016. Specification from http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/executive/protocol_office/flags/tasmanian_flag Given at Our Court at Saint James this twenty first day of May 1917 in the Eighth year of Our Reign. Ting, Inga; Scott, Nathanael; Workman, Michael; Hutcheon, Stephen (6 September 2021). "Charting the COVID-19 spread in Australia". ABC News. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021 . Retrieved 6 September 2021. Athrotaxis". Trees and Shrubs Online. Archived from the original on 31 August 2021 . Retrieved 31 August 2021.