Tasmania Attractions

 
Holiday Island

The heart-shaped island of Tasmania lies some 300km south of the Australian mainland, separated from it by the usually stormy Bass Strait. The smallest of the Australian states, it has an area of only 67,800 sq.km and measures only just over 300km from east to west and rather less than that from north to south. Lying as it does in the relatively cool Australian south, it cannot offer the attractions of coral reefs and all-year-round bathing; but immigrants from Britain must have been reminded of the climate they had been used to at home. During the summer months many mainlanders (inhabitants of the Australian mainland) like to spend their holidays in the temperate climate of the 'Holiday Island', with its scenic beauty and range of facilities for leisure activities.

Tasmania was known in the 19th C. as a convict island on which prisoners transported from Britain were condemned to hard labor, breaking stone, hewing coal, felling timber, building roads and bridges.
Address: Tourism Tasmania, BOX 399, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia

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Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake in Tasmania.Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake in Tasmania.
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