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We will talk about Tasmania. Tasmania is an island on the Southeast of and it's the smallest state of Australia. Its also the island of Austalia, the areas have a size of 68.000 square kilometres. Tasmania was discovered by the Dutch seaman Abel Tasman in 1642. He called this island Van Diemens Land. 200 years later Tasmania get his currently name. Tasmania is also call the Apple island because the worlds famous apple sort granny smith was first grow crops there. The population of Tasmania is 470 000 people. The capital of Tasmania is Hobart. It's in the south of Tasmania. The highest mountain is Mount Ossa with 1617 m.
In the east is the Tasman see, in the west is the Indian Ocean and in the south is the often stormy and cold Southern Ocean.
Tasmania is very mountainous. In the total west half and in the east is a wild mountainous region. It's not very reconstructed with streets. The area was build of the ice of the ice age.
Today Tasmania has a jungle that is the main attraction of the tourists. Because of this Tasmania have a lot of national parks. They protect the landscape and the animals of the destruction of the tourists.
The people of Tasmania are very relax and friendly people. They make their money to live with sheep or cow farms. They live in the near of the coast and sees. An other methods to make money in Tasmania is fishing and chicken farming.
The Tasmanian industry is the cloth- and cement industry. But the biggest industry of Tasmania is the tourism. In Tasmania are 1500 luxuriance hotels and ca. 25 000 restaurants
Tasmania have also mineral recourses like lead, zinc, silver, tin and hematite.
But endangered animals are not endangering about the tourist set apart the foreign animals like the dingo or the fox.
Local animals are for example are kangaroos or Wallabies. In Tasmania live 2 kinds of kangaroos: Eastern Grey Kangaroo or Forester Kangaroo. A kangaroo is about 2 metres big.
An other local popular animal in Tasmania is the Tasmanian Devil. It is a 60 cm long animal. It has a black flush fell. The weight can be 8 kilos. It is nights live animal and feeds on trash or decaying flesh. He is a kind of police of nature - because he looks for hygiene. He is not the dangerous hunter like his bad fame says. You can look at the Longford Wildlife National Park on a real Tasmanian Devil.
A 33 % of Tasmania is on protection of nature. This area is administrated form the national Department. Very good is the homepage department with a lot of informations about animals and plants. The address is www. dpiwe.tas.gov.au
Its have 19 National Park all over Tasmania. There you can feel the pure nature.
Nice forest ways invent you for a stroll. Here you can meet the exciting world of Tasmania, the plants, and big trees. In the Tasman national Parks are Trees in the size of 100 metres and higher. There also live a lot of insects, snakes and other dangerous animals.
For visitors of the national Parks there are a lot of Service Point, to learn about the Plants and animals. You can take a guide or a ranger, and have walk about the national parks. He explains more about the national parks and life in Tasmania.
Tasmanians lakes and rivers like the Franklin-Gordon Wild River and Cradle Mountain-Lake is also protect about the national parks.
Tasmania has also something more like nature. In 19th century Tasmania was a convict island. People how was crime, were brought the Tasmania. Prot Arthur is a old detention house out of this time.
You can look this old ruin and the nice area. Here you can see al lot of beautiful bridges and houses that were built form the convicts!
In Port Arthur were also Aborigines who were caught in Australia - because the white discoverers hate the Aborigines.
Tasman Aborigines were issued horrible like the other of Australia. They were hunt by the Britain 1856. 8 years later all Tasmanian Aborigines were die out. You can see in the Tasman Museum for old wappons, tool, tents, clothes and jewelry of this Aborigines.
Vokabeln:
Reconstructed erschlossen
Destruction Zerstörung
mineral recourses Bodenschätze
lead Blei
zinc Zink
silver Silber
tin Zinn
hematite Eisenerz
endangered vom aussterben bedroht
decaying flesh As
administrated verwaltet
stroll spazieren
tourism Tourismus
issued horrible erging es schlechter
fame Ruf
jewelry Schmuck
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