Tasmania may be the smallest state in Australia, but it contains no fewer than 495 separate Protected Areas with a total area of 2,203,383 hectares (land area: 2,201,962 hectares – 32.23% of the state’s area). 19 of these are National parks, totalling 1,430,762 hectares (20.94% of the state’s area).
... five years, design work continued, aided by data from the British Aerospace EAP prototype which had first flown in 1986, and culminating in the first flight of the Typhoon ...