Get used to it: Tasmania is here to stay!

[Synthaholic]

Australia is not going to give it up, and it's not going to sink into the ocean.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Umm.... okay...........

 

[HelenaHandbag]

I get it. Friday night is incoherent OP night.

 

[Gracie]

 

[Synthaholic]

https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf...us&sa=X&ei=rCjjUqytOo-ikQfU7oBg&ved=0CKgBELYD

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Umm.... okay...........

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[Mr. H.]

It may not sink, but global warming will bury it in ocean.

 

[Noomi]

None of us here in the big island care about the little island.

 

[bianco]

It was once call Van Diemen's Land.
Is Holland trying to claim it?

Van Diemen's Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia.
The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to land on the shores of Tasmania. Landing at Blackman's Bay and later having the Dutch flag flown at North Bay, Tasman named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt in honour of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who had sent Tasman on his voyage of discovery in 1642.
Between 1772 and 1798 only the southeastern portion of the island was visited. Tasmania was not known to be an island until Matthew Flinders and George Bass circumnavigated it in the Norfolk in 1798-99.

1663 map of Van Diemen's Land, showing the parts discovered by Tasman, including Storm Bay, Maria Island and Schouten Island.In 1803, the island was colonized by the British as a penal colony with the name Van Diemen's Land, and became part of the British colony of New South Wales.

 

[HelenaHandbag]

None of us here in the big island care about the little island.

How very caring and compassionate of you.

 

[Noomi]

None of us here in the big island care about the little island.

How very caring and compassionate of you.

Its true. Poor Tassie gets ignored, frequently.

 

[bianco]

None of us here in the big island care about the little island.

Oh yes we do!

Can't have a Sydney to Hobart [Tasmania] yacht race on Boxing Day each year...without Tasmania!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRp1Jr_3nDI [/ame]

 

[Synthaholic]

It may not sink, but global warming will bury it in ocean.

Golly gee willikers, I hope not!

 

[Synthaholic]

None of us here in the big island care about the little island.

But it's the 29th largest island in the world!

 

[Synthaholic]

None of us here in the big island care about the little island.

How very caring and compassionate of you.

Its true. Poor Tassie gets ignored, frequently.

That's why it has remained beautiful and unspoiled.

 

[bianco]

Israel fits into Tasmania 3 times.

Tasmania is;

. Twice the size of Belgium
. 1.5 times the size of Switzerland
. Basically the same size as Ireland
. 1.5 times the size of the Netherlands
. 1.5 times the size of Denmark