Tasmania

[taz-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh]

noun

1. an island south of Australia: a state of the commonwealth of Australia. 26,382 sq. mi. (68,330 sq. km). Hobart.

Tasmania

/ tæzˈmeɪnɪə /

noun

1. Former name (1642–1855): Van Diemen's Land. an island in the S Pacific, south of mainland Australia: forms, with offshore islands, the smallest state of Australia; discovered by the Dutch explorer Tasman in 1642; used as a penal colony by the British (1803–53); mostly forested and mountainous. Capital: Hobart. Pop: 479 958 (2003 est). Area: 68 332 sq km (26 383 sq miles)

Other Word Forms

• Tasmanian adjective

Example Sentences

Playing for Tasmania in a Sheffield Shield game in Hobart, Ponting was a few days shy of his 20th birthday and nearing a century.

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Next year, Tasmania’s award-winning The Agrarian Kitchen will be cooking up the finest local ingredients paired with Aussie wines, and Brisbane’s beloved The Bistro by SK Steak & Oyster is grilling premium steaks alongside top-notch seafood.

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Local media posted pictures of both men training at Cricket NSW headquarters in Sydney during New South Wales' Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania.

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Surfboard lost in Tasmania drifts more than 2,400km to New Zealand.

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During peak mushroom season in May at Corinna Wilderness Village in Western Tasmania, pro photographer Luke O’Brien offers workshops on spotting and shooting the region’s distinctive fungi.

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