Welcome to the Tasmania, Australia Portal on Geni

This Tasmania Portal has been created to:

• Link together existing Tasmania, Australia projects
• Encourage new Tasmania, Australia projects to be created
• Encourage collaboration between Tasmania-based Geni users, and Geni users worldwide who have Tasmania, Australia interests and connections
• Promote and facilitate Tasmania, Australia genealogical research
• Promote Tasmania, Australia, its people, cultures and traditions to the wider Geni community

Pioneers Settlement and Immigration

This icon is reserved for Bound for Tasmania and voyages listed on that project and Interstate voyages to Tasmania.

• Bound for Tasmania - ships lists
• Stowaway - Tasmania

Colonial Resources

• Colonial Times 1825-27
• Tasmanian Heritage Archive

Tasmania

Tasmania, abbreviated TAS and known colloquially as Tassie, is an island state of Australia. It is located 240km to the south of the Australian continent, separated by the Bass Strait. Tasmania's area is 68,401 square kilometres.

The state capital city is Hobart.

Etymology

The state is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642. Tasman named the island "Anthony van Diemen's Land" 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. It was officially renamed Tasmania in honour of its first European discoverer on 1 January 1856.

Tasmania was sometimes referred to as "Dervon", as mentioned in The Jerilderie Letter written by the notorious Australian bushranger Ned Kelly in 1879.

Hobart Suburbs

• Acton Park
• Austins Ferry
• Battery Point
• Bellerieve
• Berriedale
• Blackmans Bay
• Bonnet Hill
• Bridgewater
• Brighton
• Cambridge
• Chigwell
• Claremont
• Clarendon Vale
• Collinsvale
• Derwent Park
• Dodges Ferry
• Dowsing Point
• Dynnyrne
• Fern Tree
• Gagebrook
• Geilston Bay
• Glebe
• Glenlusk
• Glenorchy
• Goodwood
• Granton
• Green Point
• Hobart
• Howden
• Howrah
• Huntingfield
• Kingston
• Kingston Beach
• Lauderdale
• Lenah Valley
• Lindisfarne
• Lutana
• Midway Point
• Montagu Bay
• Montrose
• Moonah
• Mornington
• Mount Nelson
• Mount Rumney
• Mount Stuart
• New Town
• North Hobart
• Oakdowns
• Old Beach
• Otago
• Ridgeway
• Risdon
• Risdon Vale
• Roches Beach
• Rokeby
• Rose Bay
• Rosetta
• Rosny
• Rosny Park
• Sandy Bay
• Sorell
• South Hobart
• Taroona
• Tolman's Hill
• Tranmere
• Warrane
• West Hobart
• West Moonah

Tasmanian Towns

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• Abbotsham
• Abels Bay
• Aberdeen
• Acacia Hills
• Acton
• Adventure Bay
• Akaroa
• Alberton
• Albion Heights
• Alcomie
• Allens Rivulet
• Alonnah
• Ambleside
• Andover
• Ansons Bay
• Antill Ponds
• Apollo Bay
• Apslawn
• Apsley
• Arthur River
• Arthurs Lake
• Avoca

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