Tasmania

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

/ tæzˈmeɪ ni ə, -ˈmeɪn yə /

noun

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

Formerly Van Diemen's Land.

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Tas·ma·ni·an, adjective, noun

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Our innermost thoughts offered up to old friends from high school are there to be seen by some voyeuristic devil in Tasmania.

You Can’t Have Facebook’s Best Privacy Policy |Dennis Kneale |May 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark is Australian, born in Hobart, Tasmania of academic parents who were themselves born in Scotland.

Why William Needs a Commoner |Andrew Roberts |November 16, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
The education of the people, every where a question of difficulty, has been not less so in Tasmania.

The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) |John West
Spent it indoors, sewing and gazing at frowning Mt. Wellington, the pride of Tasmania.

The Story of a Life |J. Breckenridge Ellis

In due course our ship entered the estuary called the Derwent, at whose head stands Hobart, the capital of Tasmania.

Following the Equator, Complete |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
In 1871, when about twenty-five years of age, he was ordered to recruit his health by a trip to Tasmania.

Australian Writers |Desmond Byrne
Where the streams unite, they become the Tamar, one of the principal rivers in Tasmania.

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 |John Lort Stokes

British Dictionary definitions for tasmania

Tasmania

/ (tæzˈmeɪnɪə) /

noun

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) Former name (1642–1855): Van Diemen's Land

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