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).
... of the island. From the 32,000 Russians (of whom over 22,150 were convicts) at the beginning of 20th century, the population grew to 673,100 today, 83% from whom are ...