Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that persisted on the Australian mainland. For example, bone tools and the practice of fishing were both present in Tasmania at the time that the land bridge was severed, and both disappeared from Tasmania by around 1500 B. C.
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Tasmania lies 130 miles southeast of Australia. When it was first visited by Europeans in 1642, Tasmania was occupied by 4,000 hunter-gatherers related to mainland Australians, but with the simplest technology of any recent people on Earth. Unlike mainland Aboriginal Australians, Tasmanians couldn't start a fire.
We don't have much Mexican food, and we don't have any border patrol. Tasmania is probably the nearest thing to a foreign country.
We calculate the amount spent by Brethren and other anti-Green groups was between 500,000 and 1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
The seamount region off Tasmania is a distinct geological feature not found elsewhere in the continental margin of Australia. It includes 70 submerged and extinct volcanoes in water between 1,000 and 2,000 meters deep on the continental slope and supports an incredibly diverse range of bottom-living plants and animals, many of which are new to science and not found anywhere else in the world,
The Australian Test captain is Tasmanian, Tom Kendall, who played in the very first Test in 1877, is buried in Tasmania, and Keith Bradshaw, the new MCC secretary and chief executive-elect, is Tasmanian. We have made the MCC aware we are very disappointed Tasmania is not on the list. I hope it is not too late to reconsider the issue for next summer.
November 14, 1996 was proclaimed David Boon Day in Tasmania, but was later overturned by the federal government as it was a ridiculous idea.
But you can find it easily from Tasmania to North America to the mountains of South Africa. It's probably growing outside my front door.