Tasmania
About Tasmania
Tasmania is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 kilometres to the south of the Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 1000 islands. It is Australia's smallest and least populous state, with 573,479 residents as of June 2023. The state capital and largest city is Hobart, with around 40% of the population living in the Greater Hobart area. Tasmania is the most decentralised state in Australia, with the lowest proportion of its residents living within its capital city.
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The Australian island state of Tasmania technically shares an 85 metre land border with Victoria.
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More facts about Tasmania
Tasmania has an incredible number of rude place names, including Thrush Forest, Mossy Nipple Bend, Misery Knob, Funny Knob Creek, Guys Dirty Hole, The Butts, The Nipples and Tongue's Point.
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Near Hobart in Tasmania there is a place called Dootown: an architect named his house Doo in 1935, his neighbours followed with Do Me and Do Us, and everyone ended up with names like Didgeridoo, Do Nothing, Doctor Do Little and Do Fuck All.
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Tasmania has such a difficult history with its Aboriginal community that there is now a policy of renaming places or giving them two names, one Aboriginal and one settler.
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Tasmania has Milkshake Hills, named because the hills apparently resemble women's breasts.
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Tasmania's Trousers Point commemorates the lucky escape of a John Burgess, who escaped without his trousers from the nearby wreck of the Sarah Anne.
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Tasmania has a huge number of place names ending in Bottom: Lovely Bottom, Prickly Bottom, Deep Bottom, Officers Bottom, Broad Bottom, Bottom Bottom, Round Bottom and Stumpy's Bottom.
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Coordinates: -42.0000, 147.0000