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).
... who had fled Gestapo. Many of them hid in the forested regions, especially in the unoccupied zone. They joined together to form maquis bands and began to plan attacks ...