Tasmania was originally discovered by the Dutch discoverer Abel Tasman in 1642. He named this island, "Anthoonij Van Diemens Landt". Later the British called it Van Damien's Land.
The history of Jews in Tasmania is long and checkered. In the 1940s, before the state of Israel was established, an explorer looking for a potential Jewish homeland scouted out the island’s ...
The Victorian man, in his 30s, was hiking with two friends at Federation Peak in the Southwest National Park on Monday when he fell about 11am, according to Tasmania Police. His friends raised the ...