Tasmania Facts

Tasmania Facts

By Korrina Davis

Multiple Choice

Tasmania is the world's 25th largest island.

• False

• True

Tasmania is the 26th largest island, following ​Sri Lanka!

Multiple Choice

According to some studies, Tasmania has the world's cleanest air.

• True

• False

The Cape-Grim Peninsular on Tasmania's North-Western coast has some of the cleanest air in the world according to the measuring station there (Bourget, 2019).

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Multiple Choice

Aboriginal people have lived in Tasmania for approximately

• 50,000 years

• 40,000 years

• 10,000 years

• 5,000 years

​According to the National Museum of Australia (2022), Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for at least 65,000 years. They are believed to have migrated into what is now Tasmania approximately 40,000 years ago.

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Multiple Choice

Hobart is the second driest capital city in Australia.

• True

• False

1. ​Darwin 1723.1 mm

2. Sydney 1213.4 mm

3. Brisbane 1148.8 mm

4. Perth 730.9 mm

5. Melbourne 648.3 mm

6. Canberra 615.4 mm

7. Hobart 612.2 mm

8. Adelaide 526.7 mm

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​(Nine News, 2021)

Multiple Choice

Tasmania has more conserved land than any other state.

• True

• False

​40% of Tasmania is national parks and reserves (Discover Tasmania, 2021).

Almost 25% is UNESCO World Heritage. ​

Multiple Choice

Hobart is the 3rd oldest city in Australia.

• True

• False

​Hobart was founded in 1804, second to Sydeny!

Multiple Choice

Tasmania was initially a part of the New South Wales colony.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How many islands are part of Tassie's territory?

• 334

• 7

• 250

• 804

Multiple Choice

How long ago did Tasmania split from Australia?

• 50,000 years

• 12,000 years

• 30,000 years

• 6,000 years

​"Bass Strait was not always a strait. It used to be a plain populated by Indigenous peoples who moved back and forth between what we now call Victoria and Tasmania.

The first humans arrived in Tasmania around 40,000 years ago. About 30,000 years ago an ice age began, which caused sea levels to drop about 120 metres and created a continuous land mass that stretched between Papua New Guinea and Tasmania.

When the ice melted – a process estimated to have taken 6000 years – Bass Strait formed and became an almost impassable barrier by about 12,000 years ago." (National Museum of Australia, 2022).

Multiple Choice

What is the total population of Tasmania?

• 1,000,000

• 541,500

• 860,000

• 217

Multiple Choice

Devenport is the second-largest city in Tasmania.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Tasmania is also known as 'the Apple Isle'.

• True

• False

​"The first apple tree planted in Tasmania dates from 1788 when William Bligh anchored in Adventure Bay on Bruny Island and planted a selection of fruit, including three apple seedlings, the first apple trees planted in Australia... Apples were an important crop in Tasmania from early colonial settlement until the present. As an industry, it has also been extremely important to Tasmania, from its first commercial developments in the mid-nineteenth century through the main productive period from the early to mid-1900s."

​References

​​Bourget​, A 2019, 'Tired of the pollution in Australia's big cities? The world's cleanest air is just across the Bass Strait', SBS, March 20, viewed March 1, 2022, <https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/the-world-s-cleanest-air-is-found-in-this-australian-state#:~:text=The%20world's%20cleanest%20air%20is%20just%20across%20the%20Bass%20Strait.&text=It's%20in%20North%2DWestern%20Tasmania,measuring%20station%20on%20the%20cape.>.

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Discover Tasmania, 2021, ​'National Parks and Wilderness', Discover Tasmania, viewed March 1, 2022, <https://www.discovertasmania.com.au/about/national-parks-and-wilderness#:~:text=Tasmania's%20national%20parks%20cover%20a,in%20national%20parks%20and%20reserves.>.

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​Lathouris, O 2021, 'Australia's capital cities ranked wettest to driest', Nine News, April 30, viewed March 1, 2022, <https://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-capital-cities-ranked-wettest-to-driest-sydney-melbourne-brisbane-hobart-canberra-adelaide-perth-darwin/2422d3e2-4d55-41ca-b3b9-8abedc728c9b>

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National Museum Australia, 2022, ​'Evidence of first peoples, National Museum of Australia, viewed March 1, 2022 <https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/evidence-of-first-peoples#:~:text=Aboriginal%20people%20are%20known%20to,of%20Europe%20and%20the%20Americas.

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​National Museum Australia, 2022, ​'Separation of Tasmania', National Museum of Australia, viewed March 1, 2022, < https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/separation-of-tasmania>.​

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Servant, N 1999, 'Apple Industry', The Companion to Tasmanian History, viewed March 1, <https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Apple%20industry.htm>.

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