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The original name for Tasmania, the island state of Australia.
The original name for Tasmania, the island state of Australia. It was changed in the 1850's to honour the first European to discover the island, Abel Tasman, and possibly also to remove the association with the severe penal colony that the original name evoked.
The original name for Tasmania, the island state of Australia. It was changed in the 1850's to honour the first European to discover the island, Abel Tasman, and possibly also to remove the association with the severe penal colony that the original name evoked.

See Tasmania

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