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 first person to name weather events was a guy called Clement Linley Rag, a British guy in the 19th century who lived in Tasmania. He was a meteorologist and he decided to name storms to make them more memorable, naming them largely after politicians he didn't like, followed by things like "causing great distress".
from No Such Thing As Hurricane Schmurricane, 2017-03-10 at 00:22:15 · read transcript
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It was Lorraine Bennett. You can see how this kind of thing happens. I did have to check. Paul Lorraine Kelly's now getting messages from locals asking about this week in Baghdad in Tasmania. Are we still having the market sale? Other funny place names in Tasmania, if you want to really dig deep, if you go to the government list of them, so it's place names, all one word, placemes.tas.gov.a.u.
No Such Thing As A Pub Full of Corgis, 2022-03-18 · listen
Messages from everywhere we're getting messages from Yugoslavia sorry Lorraine Kelly Lorraine Bennett you can see how this kind of thing happens I did have to check Lorraine Kelly is now getting messages from locals asking about this week in Baghdad in Tasmania are we still having the market sale or are there funny place names in Tasmania if you want to really dig deep if you go to the government list of them so it's place names or one word place names.taz.gov.au you can.
418: No Such Thing As A Pub Full of Corgis, 2022-03-18 · listen
It's especially an issue in China, because in China there are 200,000 people per unique surname. They've got far fewer surnames in China, and I read a piece written by a Wang, a J. Wang, who was saying there are more than 1,200 J-Wangs, J-Wangs in nanoscience alone. I mean, this is hell. If you want to find an individual academic, you can't find them because you have, you know, 200,000 wangs to deal with.
No Such Thing As a Leg Made from Milk, 2020-04-10 · listen
Just so good. Mount Mismanagement, bloke who was naming it left his compass behind, got all the way back to base, had to go back there. I love this place in Tasmania, and if whoever get back there, I want to visit. It's called Dew Town, D-O-O-Town. So this is 79 kilometres southeast of Hobart, and it was established in the 1830s, and it was a sort of timber station, which eventually has become a shack community.
No Such Thing As A Pub Full of Corgis, 2022-03-18 · listen
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No Such Thing As Hurricane Schmurricane put 3 places on the map.
- University of London · United Kingdom
- Greenpeace · Netherlands
Coordinates: -42.0000, 147.0000