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Há 1 dia · Tasmania was colonised by successive waves of Aboriginal people from southern Australia during glacial maxima, when the sea was at its lowest.
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In 1901, the Colony of Tasmania united with the five other...
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Há 1 dia · In 1901, the Colony of Tasmania united with the five other Australian colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia. Tasmanians voted in favour of federation with the largest majority of all the Australian colonies.
Há 1 dia · The shoreline of Tasmania and Victoria about 14,000 years ago, as sea levels were rising, showing some of the human archaeological sites. When the north-west of Australia was first occupied, the region consisted of open tropical forests and woodlands.
Há 5 dias · Tasmanian Aboriginal people (Palawa), an isolate population of Australian Aboriginal people who, according to myth, had become extinct in the 19th century but whose claim of identity as Aboriginal people—which gained steam in the 1970s—resulted in government recognition and land grants by the 1990s.
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Há 1 dia · Geographical and historical treatment of Tasmania, including maps and a survey of its people, economy, and government.
Há 5 dias · Tasmania - Self-Government, Federation, Island: Once the importation and exploitation of convicts had ended, the way opened for the grant of colonial self-government in 1855–56. Tasmania became the colony’s official name, which, it was hoped, would be a portent of a happier age.
Há 1 dia · The British government began to wind down the second penal settlement after 1847, and the last convicts were removed to Tasmania in May 1855. The island was abandoned because transportation from the United Kingdom to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) had ceased in 1853, to be replaced by penal servitude in the UK.
