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 southern portion of the island by the Soviet Union in 1945 at the end of World War II. Sovereignty over Sakhalin and the neighoring Kurile Islands remain ...