Which stretch of water separates Tasmania from mainland Australia?
British colonisation of Tasmania village near the Bass Strait, hiding from British authorities. British colonisation of Tasmania "For information concerning warfare with the aborigines of Australia, see Black War." The British colonisation of Tasmania took place between 1803 and 1830. Tasmania was a British colony from 1856 until 1901, at which time it joined five other colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia. By the end of the colonisation in 1830 the British Empire had annexed large parts of mainland Australia, and all of Tasmania. The first British colonies on Tasmania appeared circa 1803. Small numbers of whalers and sealers set up communities along
Mainland Australia relationship between Tasmania and the other Australian states, in that people not from Tasmania are referred to as mainlanders. Tasmania has been omitted on a number of occasions from maps of Australia, reinforcing the divide between Tasmania and the mainland. The 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane left Tasmania off the map of Australia during the opening ceremony, as did the designs of the Australian Swim Team uniform for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The land mass covers , about 98.7% of the area of the country of Australia and covering 1.5% of the Earth's surface. Its population is about 24.5 million,