Tasmania’s area is 26,410 square miles, of which the main island covers 24,911 square miles. It is promoted as a natural state, and protected areas of Tasmania<\/a> cover about 42% of its land area, which includes national parks and World Heritage Sites<\/a>. Tasmania was the founding place of the first environmental political party in the world.<\/p>\n The island is believed to have been occupied by indigenous peoples for 30,000 years before British colonization. It is thought Aboriginal Tasmanians<\/a> were separated from the mainland Aboriginal groups about 10,000 years ago when the sea rose to form Bass Strait. The Aboriginal population is estimated to have been between 3,000 and 7,000 at the time of colonization, but was almost wiped out within 30 years by a combination of violent guerrilla conflict with settlers known as the “Black War<\/a>“, inter-tribal conflict, and from the late 1820s, the spread of infectious diseases to which they had no immunity. The conflict, which peaked between 1825 and 1831, and led to more than three years of martial law, cost the lives of almost 1,100 Aboriginals and settlers.<\/p>\n The island was permanently settled by Europeans in 1803 as a penal settlement of the British Empire to prevent claims to the land by the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars<\/a>. The island was initially part of the Colony of New South Wales but became a separate, self-governing colony under the name Van Diemen’s Land (named after Anthony van Diemen<\/a>) in 1825. Approximately 75,000 convicts were sent to Van Diemen’s Land before transportation ceased in 1853. In 1854 the present Constitution of Tasmania was passed, and the following year the colony received permission to change its name to Tasmania. In 1901 it became a state through the process of the Federation of Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n The state is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman<\/a>, 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<\/a>. The name was later shortened to Van Diemen’s Land by the British. It was officially renamed Tasmania in honor of its first European discoverer on 1 January 1856.<\/p>\n Tasmania was sometimes referred to as “Dervon,” as mentioned in the Jerilderie Letter<\/a> written by the notorious Australian bush-ranger<\/a> Ned Kelly<\/a> in 1879. The colloquial expression for the state is “Tassie”. Tasmania is also colloquially shortened to “Tas,” mainly when used in business names and website addresses. TAS is also the Australia Post<\/a> abbreviation for the state.<\/p>\n Evidence indicates the presence of Aborigines in Tasmania about 42,000 years ago. Rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia about 10,000 years ago and by the time of European contact, the Aboriginal people in Tasmania had nine major nations or ethnic groups.<\/p>\n At the time of the British occupation and colonization in 1803, the indigenous population was estimated at between 3,000 and 10,000. Historian Lyndall Ryan’s analysis of population studies led her to conclude that there were about 7,000 spread throughout the island’s nine nations; Nicholas Clements, citing research by N.J.B. Plomley<\/a> and Rhys Jones<\/a>, settled on a figure of 3,000 to 4,000. They engaged in fire-stick farming<\/a>, hunted game including kangaroo<\/a> and wallabies<\/a>, caught seals, mutton-birds, shellfish and fish and lived as nine separate “nations” on the island, which they knew as “Trouwunna”.<\/p>\n The first reported sighting of Tasmania by a European was on 24 November 1642 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who landed at today’s Blackman Bay<\/a>. More than a century later, in 1772, a French expedition led by Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne<\/a> landed at (nearby but different) Blackmans Bay<\/a>, and the following year Tobias Furneaux<\/a> became the first Englishman to land in Tasmania when he arrived at Adventure Bay<\/a>, which he named after his ship HMS Adventure<\/a>. Captain James Cook<\/a> also landed at Adventure Bay in 1777. Matthew Flinders<\/a> and George Bass<\/a> sailed through Bass Strait in 1798\u201399, determining for the first time that Tasmania was an island.<\/p>\n Sealers and whalers based themselves on Tasmania’s islands from 1798, and in August 1803 New South Wales Governor Philip King<\/a> sent Lieutenant John Bowen<\/a> to establish a small military outpost on the eastern shore of the Derwent River<\/a> in order to forestall any claims to the island by French explorers who had been exploring the southern Australian coastline. Bowen, who led a party of 49, including 21 male and three female convicts, named the camp Risdon. Several months later a second settlement was established by Captain David Collins<\/a>, with 308 convicts, 3.1 miles to the south in Sullivans Cove<\/a> on the western side of the Derwent, where fresh water was more plentiful. The latter settlement became known as Hobart Town or Hobarton, later shortened to Hobart, after the British Colonial Secretary<\/a> of the time, Lord Hobart<\/a>. The settlement at Risdon was later abandoned. Left on their own without further supplies, the Sullivans Cove settlement suffered severe food shortages and by 1806 its inhabitants were starving, with many resorting to scraping seaweed off rocks and scavenging washed-up whale blubber from the shore to survive.<\/p>\n A smaller colony was established at Port Dalrymple on the Tamar River<\/a> in the island’s north in October 1804 and several other convict-based settlements were established, including the particularly harsh penal colonies at Port Arthur<\/a> in the southeast and Macquarie Harbour<\/a> on the West Coast. Tasmania was eventually sent 75,000 convicts\u2014four out of every ten people transported to Australia. By 1819 the Aboriginal and British population reached parity with about 5000 of each, although among the colonists men outnumbered women four to one. Wealthy middle-class free settlers began arriving in large numbers from 1820, lured by the promise of land grants and free convict labor.<\/p>\n Settlement in the island’s northwest corner was monopolized by the Van Diemen’s Land Company<\/a>, which sent its first surveyors to the district in 1826. By 1830 one-third of Australia’s non-Indigenous population lived in Van Diemen’s Land and the island accounted for about half of all land under cultivation and exports.<\/p>\n Tensions between Tasmania’s black and white inhabitants rose, partly driven by increasing competition for kangaroo and other game. Explorer and naval officer John Oxley in 1810 noted the “many atrocious cruelties” inflicted on Aboriginals by convict bush-rangers in the north, which in turn led to black attacks on solitary white hunters. Hostilities increased further with the arrival of 600 colonists from Norfolk Island<\/a> between 1807 and 1813. They established farms along the River Derwent and east and west of Launceston<\/a>, occupying 10 percent of Van Diemen’s Land. By 1824 the colonial population had swelled to 12,600, while the island’s sheep population had reached 200,000. The rapid colonization transformed traditional kangaroo hunting grounds into farms with grazing livestock as well as fences, hedges and stone walls, while police and military patrols were increased to control the convict farm laborers.<\/p>\n Violence began to spiral rapidly from the mid-1820s in what became known as the “Black War”. While black inhabitants were driven to desperation by dwindling food supplies as well as anger at the prevalence of abductions of women and girls, whites carried out attacks as a means of exacting revenge and suppressing the native threat. Van Diemen’s Land had an enormous gender imbalance, with male colonists outnumbering females six to one in 1822\u2014and 16 to one among the convict population. Historian Nicholas Clements has suggested the “voracious appetite” for native women was the most important trigger for the explosion of violence from the late 1820s.<\/p>\n From 1825 to 1828 the number of native attacks more than doubled each year, raising panic among settlers. Over the summer of 1826\u20137 clans from the Big River, Oyster Bay and North Midlands nations speared stock-keepers on farms and made it clear that they wanted the settlers and their sheep and cattle to move from their kangaroo hunting grounds. Settlers responded vigorously, resulting in many mass-killings. In November 1826 Governor George Arthur<\/a> issued a government notice declaring that colonists were free to kill Aborigines when they attacked settlers or their property and in the following eight months more than 200 Aborigines were killed in the Settled Districts in reprisal for the deaths of 15 colonists. After another eight months the death toll had risen to 43 colonists and probably 350 Aboriginals. Almost 300 British troops were sent into the Settled Districts, and in November 1828 Arthur declared martial law, giving soldiers the right to shoot on sight any Aboriginal in the Settled Districts. Martial law would remain in force for more than three years, the longest period of martial law in Australian history.<\/p>\n In November 1830 Arthur organised the so-called “Black Line”, ordering every able-bodied male colonist to assemble at one of seven designated places in the Settled Districts to join a massive drive to sweep Aboriginals out of the region and on to the Tasman Peninsula. The campaign failed and was abandoned seven weeks later, but by then Tasmania’s Aboriginal population had fallen to about 300.<\/p>\n After hostilities between settlers and Aboriginals ceased in 1832, almost all of the remnants of the indigenous population were persuaded or forced by government agent George Augustus Robinson to move to Flinders Island<\/a>. Many quickly succumbed to infectious diseases to which they had no immunity, reducing the population further. Of those removed from Tasmania, the last to die was Truganini<\/a>, in 1876.<\/p>\n Van Diemen’s Land\u2014which thus far had existed as a territory within the colony of New South Wales\u2014was proclaimed a separate colony, with its own judicial establishment and Legislative Council<\/a>, on 3 December 1825. Transportation to the island ceased in 1853 and the colony was renamed Tasmania in 1856, partly to differentiate the burgeoning society of free settlers from the island’s convict past.<\/p>\n The Legislative Council of Van Diemen’s Land drafted a new constitution which it passed in 1854. The following year the Privy Council<\/a> approved the colony changing its name from “Van Diemen’s Land” to “Tasmania”, and in 1856 the newly elected bicameral parliament sat for the first time, establishing Tasmania as a self-governing colony of the British Empire.<\/p>\n The colony suffered from economic fluctuations, but for the most part was prosperous, experiencing steady growth. With few external threats and strong trade links with the Empire, Tasmania enjoyed many fruitful periods in the late 19th century, becoming a world-center of shipbuilding. It raised a local defense force that eventually played a significant role<\/a> in the Second Boer War<\/a> in South Africa, and Tasmanian soldiers in that conflict won the first two Victoria Crosses<\/a> awarded to Australians.<\/p>\n In 1901 the Colony of Tasmania united with the five other Australian colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia. Tasmanians voted in favor of federation with the largest majority of all the Australian colonies.<\/p>\n The state was badly affected by the 1967 Tasmanian fires<\/a>, in which there was major loss of life and property. In the 1970s the state government announced plans to flood environmentally significant Lake Pedder<\/a>. As a result of the eventual flooding of Lake Pedder, the world’s first greens party was established; the United Tasmania Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 1975 the Tasman Bridge<\/a> collapsed when the bridge was struck by the bulk ore carrier MV Lake Illawarra<\/a>. It was the only bridge in Hobart, and made crossing the Derwent River<\/a> by road at the city impossible. The nearest bridge was approximately 12 miles to the north, at Bridgewater.<\/p>\n National and international attention surrounded the campaign against the Franklin Dam<\/a> in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n On 28 April 1996, in the incident now known as the Port Arthur massacre<\/a>, lone gunman Martin Bryant<\/a> shot and killed 35 people, including tourists and residents, and injured 21 others. The use of firearms was immediately reviewed, and new gun ownership laws were adopted nationwide, with Tasmania’s law one of the strictest in Australia.<\/p>\n In April 2006 the Beaconsfield Mine collapse<\/a> was triggered by a small earthquake. One person was killed and two others were trapped underground for 14 days.<\/p>\n The Tasmanian community has for some time been divided over the issue of the proposed Bell Bay Pulp Mill<\/a> to be built in the Tamar Valley<\/a>. Proponents argue that jobs will be created, while opponents argue that pollution will damage both the Bass Strait fishing industry and local tourism. The company behind the proposal collapsed in 2012 and the pulp mill project officially ended in 2017 when the building permits lapsed.<\/p>\n In January 2011 philanthropist David Walsh<\/a> opened the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)<\/a> in Hobart to international acclaim. Within 12 months, MONA became Tasmania’s top tourism attraction.<\/p>\n Tasmania’s landmass of 26,410 square miles is located directly in the pathway of the notorious “Roaring Forties<\/a>” wind that encircles the globe. To its north, it is separated from mainland Australia by Bass Strait. Tasmania is the only Australian state that is not located on the Australian mainland. About 1,600 miles south of Tasmania island lies Antarctica<\/a>. Tasmania is in fact geographically closer to Antarctica than it is to parts of the northern Australian mainland.<\/p>\n Depending on which borders of the oceans<\/a> are used, the island can be said to be either surrounded by the Southern Ocean, or to have the Pacific on its east and the Indian to its west. Still other definitions of the ocean boundaries would have Tasmania with the Great Australian Bight<\/a> to the west, and the Tasman Sea<\/a> to the east. It lies at similar latitudes to the South Island<\/a> of New Zealand<\/a>, and parts of Patagonia<\/a> in South America.<\/p>\n Tasmania has been volcanically inactive in recent geological times but has many jagged peaks resulting from recent glaciation<\/a>. Tasmania is the most mountainous state in Australia. The most mountainous region is the Central Highlands<\/a> area, which covers most of the central western parts of the state. The Midlands<\/a> located in the central east, is fairly flat, and is predominantly used for agriculture, although farming activity is scattered throughout the state. Tasmania’s tallest mountain is Mount Ossa<\/a> at 5,305 feet. The mountain lies in the heart of the world-famous Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park<\/a>. Much of Tasmania is still densely forested, with the Southwest National Park<\/a> and neighboring areas holding some of the last temperate rain forests<\/a> in the Southern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n The Tarkine<\/a>, containing Savage River National Park<\/a> located in the island’s far north west, is the largest temperate rainforest area in Australia covering about 1,500 square miles. With its rugged topography, Tasmania has a great number of rivers. Several of Tasmania’s largest rivers have been dammed at some point to provide hydroelectricity. Many rivers begin in the Central Highlands and flow out to the coast. Tasmania’s major population centers are mainly situated around estuaries.<\/p>\n The state of Tasmania shares a land border with Victoria<\/a> at its northernmost terrestrial point, Boundary Islet<\/a>, a nature reserve in Bass Strait. The existence of the 280 foot land border is an administrative quirk caused by an early mapping error. Tasmania also includes Macquarie Island<\/a>, situated 930 miles south of the state, and approximately halfway between New Zealand and the Antarctic mainland, along with neighboring island groups Judge and Clerk Islets<\/a> 7 miles north and Bishop and Clerk Islets<\/a> about 23 miles south of Macquarie Island. The latter include the southernmost terrestrial point of the state of Tasmania, and the southernmost internationally recognized land in Australia.<\/p>\n Traditionally, Tasmania’s main industries have been mining (including copper, zinc<\/a>, tin<\/a>, and iron), agriculture, forestry, and tourism. In the 1940s and 1950s, a hydro-industrialization initiative was embodied in the state by Hydro Tasmania<\/a>. These all have had varying fortunes over the last century and more, involved in ebbs and flows of population moving in and away dependent upon the specific requirements of the dominant industries of the time. The state also has a large number of food exporting sectors, including but not limited to seafood (such as Atlantic salmon<\/a>, abalone<\/a> and crayfish<\/a>).<\/p>\n In the 1960s and 1970s there was a decline in traditional crops such as apples and pears, with other crops and industries eventually rising in their place. During the 15 years until 2010, new agricultural products such as wine, saffron<\/a>, pyrethrum<\/a> and cherries<\/a> have been fostered by the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n Favorable economic conditions throughout Australia, cheaper air fares, and two new Spirit of Tasmania ferries have all contributed to what is now a rising tourism industry.<\/p>\n About 1.7% of the Tasmanian population are employed by local government. Other major employers include Nyrstar<\/a>, Norske Skog<\/a>, Grange Resources<\/a>, Rio Tinto<\/a>, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart<\/a>, and Federal Group<\/a>. Small business is a large part of the community life, including Incat<\/a>, Moorilla Estate<\/a> and Tassal<\/a>. In the late 1990s, a number of national companies based their call centres in the state after obtaining cheap access to broad-band fiber optic connections.<\/p>\n 34% of Tasmanians are reliant on welfare payments as their primary source of income. This number is in part due to the large number of older residents and retirees in Tasmania receiving Age Pensions. Due to its natural environment and clean air, Tasmania is a common retirement selection for Australians.<\/p>\n Tasmania’s main air carriers are Jetstar Airways<\/a>, Virgin Australia<\/a>, Qantas<\/a>, QantasLink<\/a> and Regional Express Airlines<\/a>. These airlines fly direct routes to Brisbane<\/a>, the Gold Coast<\/a>, Melbourne<\/a> and Sydney<\/a>. Major airports include Hobart International Airport<\/a> and Launceston Airport<\/a>; the smaller airports, Burnie (Wynyard)<\/a> and King Island<\/a>, serviced by Regional Express; and Devonport<\/a>, serviced by QantasLink; have services to Melbourne. Intra-Tasmanian air services are offered by Airlines of Tasmania<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tasmania \u2013 Hobart in particular \u2013 serves as Australia’s chief sea link to Antarctica, with the Australian Antarctic Division<\/a> located in Kingston<\/a>. Hobart is also the home port of the French ship l’Astrolabe, which makes regular supply runs to the French Southern Territories<\/a> near and in Antarctica.<\/p>\n Within the state, the primary form of transport is by road. Since the 1980s, many of the state’s highways have undergone regular upgrades. These include the Hobart Southern Outlet<\/a>, Launceston Southern Outlet<\/a>, Bass Highway<\/a> reconstruction, and the Huon Highway<\/a>. Public transport is provided by Metro Tasmania<\/a> bus services, regular taxis and Hobart only UBER ride-share services within urban areas, with Redline Coaches<\/a>, Tassielink Transit<\/a> and Callows Coaches<\/a> providing bus service between population centres.<\/p>\n Regular passenger train services in the state ceased in 1977; the only scheduled trains are for freight, but there are tourist trains in specific areas.<\/p>\n The port of Hobart<\/a> is the second deepest natural port in the world, second to only Rio de Janeiro<\/a> in Brazil. There is a substantial amount of commercial and recreational shipping within the harbour, and the port hosts approximately 120 cruise ships during the warmer half of the year, and there are occasional visits from military vessels.<\/p>\n Burnie and Devonport on the northwest coast host ports and several other coastal towns host either small fishing ports or substantial marinas. The domestic sea route between Tasmanian and the mainland is serviced by Bass Strait passenger\/vehicle ferries operated by the Tasmanian government-owned TT-Line (Tasmania)<\/a>.<\/p>\n The current state flag of Tasmania was officially adopted following a proclamation by Tasmanian colonial\u00a0Governor<\/a>\u00a0Sir Frederick Weld<\/a> on 25 September 1876, and was first published in the Tasmanian Gazette the same day. The governor’s proclamation here were three official flags, they being the Governor’s flag, the Tasmania Government vessel flag, and a Tasmania merchant flag. Up until 1856 when Tasmania was granted responsible self-government, the Union flag<\/a> and the British ensign<\/a> were primarily used on state occasions.<\/p>\n The flag consists of a defaced<\/a> British Blue Ensign<\/a> with the state badge located in the fly. The badge is a white disk with a red lion passant in the centre of the disk. There is no official record of how the lion came to be included on the flag. Where this design originated from is unknown, but it is assumed that the red lion is a link with England. This flag has remained almost unchanged since 1875, with only a slight change of the style of the lion when the flag was officially adopted by the government in 1975.<\/p>\n Following the establishment of permanent British sovereign possession of the lands of Tasmania. Tasmania was granted responsible self-government in 1856, but the colony did not receive its own flag until Queen Victoria<\/a> had first proposed on 7 August 1869, that the colony of Tasmania (and the other Australian colonies) should adopt a Union flag defaced in the centre with the State Badge. Prior to the official adoption of a local flag, an unofficial merchant ensign was occasionally used.<\/p>\n The first local flag of Tasmania was adopted by proclamation of Tasmanian colonial Governor Sir Frederick Weld on 9 November 1875. The flag had a white cross on a blue field, in the canton was the Union Flag, and in the fly was five five-pointed stars of the Southern Cross<\/a>. The British Blue Ensign and Red Ensign<\/a> (for use respectively by government vessels and by those privately owned) were to have a white cross added. At the fly end of each flag a Southern Cross was to be formed of white stars added above and below the horizontal arm of the cross.<\/p>\n Two weeks later, on 23 November, those flags were officially abandoned because Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon<\/a>, the Secretary of State for the Colonies<\/a> in London made it clear that only a single badge could be placed at the fly end of the ensign, as set out by rule of the British Admiralty.<\/p>\n A year later the Tasmanian government decided, with the British Admiralty’s approval, that the badge for the colony would be a red lion on a white disk. Originally the lion was to be gold in colour, above a golden torse, which the new flag omitted in favor of a more traditional red.<\/p>\n On 3 December 1975, a government proclamation by Governor Sir Stanley Burbury<\/a>, and endorsed by Premier Bill Neilson<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The current state flag of Tasmania was officially adopted following a proclamation by Tasmanian colonial Governor Sir Frederick Weld on 25 September 1876, and was first published in the Tasmanian Gazette the same day. The governor’s proclamation here were three official flags, they being the Governor’s flag, the Tasmania Government vessel flag, and a Tasmania merchant flag. Up until 1856 when Tasmania was granted responsible self-government, the Union flag and the British ensign were primarily used on state occasions.<\/p>\n The flag consists of a defaced British Blue Ensign with the state badge located in the fly. The badge is a white disk with a red lion passant in the centre of the disk. There is no official record of how the lion came to be included on the flag. Where this design originated from is unknown, but it is assumed that the red lion is a link with England. This flag has remained almost unchanged since 1875, with only a slight change of the style of the lion when the flag was officially adopted by the government in 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,61,5,6,7,31,29,30,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tasmania](\"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/Tasmania-in-Australia-300x270.png\" "\\"\\"")
<\/a>Origin of the Name:<\/h2>\n
History:<\/h2>\n
Indigenous People:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>European Arrival and Governance:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Black War:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Removal of Aborigines:<\/h3>\n
Proclamation As A Separate Colony:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Recent History:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Geography:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Economy:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Transportation:<\/h2>\n
Air:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Antarctica Base:<\/h3>\n
Road:<\/h3>\n
Rail:<\/h3>\n
Shipping:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Flag of Tasmania:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>History:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>