Cleanest air in the world
Tasmania is the island with the cleanest air in the world. Tasmania is located 240 km off the southeast coast of Australia. Tasmania is the smallest state in Australia, and it is the only Australian state that is not located on the Australian island, but rather is separate from it.
Capital: Hobart
Area: 68,401 km²
Population: 541,071
Prime Minister: Jeremy Rockcliffe
Height: 1009 meters
Founding date: December 3, 1825
Tasmania is the 26th largest island in the world, and there are 334 other islands located off Tasmania, ranging from rocky outcrops to three large inhabited islands.
Length of Tasmania's mainland coast:
2,833 km
Marine area: 22,357 square km
Marine area (% of Australia): 5.5%
About 8,222 islands are spread around the shores of Australia, including 334 islands off the coast of Tasmania.
Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world, according to monitoring by the Cape Grim Air Pollution Station. The absence of pollution is due to Tasmania's location in the Southern Ocean, far from other land masses.
Cape Grim is in the path of the Roaring Forties, strong westerly winds that carry pollution-free air thousands of kilometers across the Southern Ocean.
Tasmania was first discovered on November 24, 1642, by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman
Although Aboriginal people have lived in Tasmania for at least 35,000 years, the Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer, was the first European to "discover" Tasmania.
It was named "Anthony van Diemen's Land" after the patron of exploration, Anthony van Diemen (who was also Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies now known as Indonesia).
Despite the official name of Van Diemen's Land, the use of the alternative name "Tasmania" gradually increased, and on 1 January 1856, it was officially renamed Tasmania.
Tasmania is known to the Aboriginal people as 'Trowina'.
Hobart is the capital of Tasmania, located in the south of the island. And while Tasmania is known for being one of the wettest states in Australia, some may be surprised to know that Hobart is actually the second driest capital city in Australia, after Adelaide.
Most people think of Tasmania as a wet place, but that's not the case in Hobart. Hobart receives an average rainfall of 614 mm per year, in contrast to Brisbane, which receives 1,021 mm per year.
Tasmania has the oldest trees in the world
Located in western Tasmania, Huon Pines are some of the oldest living organisms on Earth. Hun pines grow very slowly; A tree 20 meters high may be thousands of years old.
While the oldest individual tree or trunk at the site may now be 1,000 to 2,000 years old, the same organism has been living there continuously for 10,500 years.
You can see some of the oldest trees in the world and even an 800-year-old ancient myrtle tree in the Tarkin Forest.
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