"Tasmania" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... settling down over Mount Wellington in Tasmania. The distant city was already bathed ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various
... is a short distance from Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. There are no islands to the northeast ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester
... Australia conventional short form: Australia Digraph: AS Type: federal parliamentary state Capital: Canberra Administrative divisions: 6 states and 2 territories*; Australian Capital Territory*, New South Wales,, Northern Territory*, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria,, Western Australia Dependent areas: Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island Independence: 1 January 1901 (federation of UK colonies) Constitution: 9 July 1900, ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... previously a party of escaped convicts had arrived at the island in a small schooner, which they had seized at Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania). In bringing the vessel to an anchor the convicts lost her on the reef, and their lives had been saved by the Tahitians. The strangers were hospitably received, but their degraded natures were soon made evident They broke into a chief's ...
— The South Seaman - An Incident In The Sea Story Of Australia - 1901 • Louis Becke
... accent and innocent style I detected he was not a colonial, so I got him to relate his history. He was an Englishman by birth, but had been to America, Spain, New Zealand, Tasmania, etc.; by his own make out had ever been a man of note, and had played Old ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin |
