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The history of Tasmania begins at the end of the Last Glacial Period (approximately 12,000 years ago) when it is believed that the island was joined to the Australian mainland. Little is known of the human history of the island until the British colonisation of Tasmania in the 19th century.
Tasmania's main island was inhabited by Aboriginal peoples. It is thought that Aboriginal Tasmanians became separated from the mainland Aboriginal groups about 11,700 years ago, after rising sea levels formed Bass Strait.
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- 1 January 1901
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May 10, 2024 · The state owes its name to the Dutch navigator-explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1642 became the first European to discover the island. Until 1856, however, the island was known as Van Diemen’s Land, named for Anthony van Diemen, the governor of the Dutch East Indies who had sent Tasman on his voyage of exploration. The island of Tasmania ...
Van Diemen's Land. Major Events: Black War. Key People: John Oxley. Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet. Related Places: Australia. Tasmania. Van Diemen’s Land, (1642–1855), the southeastern Australian island colony that became the commonwealth state of Tasmania.
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How did Tasmania become an island? Tasmania was and continues to be known as lutriwita and truwana by the Aboriginal peoples who live there. The first people arrived in Tasmania on foot around 40,000 years ago.
1772 – The first Europeans to land on the island, the company from the expedition of the French explorer Marion du Fresne, came ashore at Marion Bay on the east coast. 1803 – Lieutenant John Bowen, with the British Royal Navy, chose Risdon Cove on the eastern shore of the River Derwent in the south-east for the first settlement of Europeans.
The state is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who made the first reported European sighting of the island on November 24, 1642. He named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt after his sponsor Anthony van Diemen, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies. The name was later shortened to Van Diemen's Land by the British.
