Best Traditional Australian Tasmania: Hobart, MONA Museum, Cradle Mountain Overland Track, Port Arthur UNESCO 2010, Bay of Fires and Tasmania Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Australia travel | Oceania destinations Best Traditional Australian Tasmania: Hobart, MONA, Cradle Mountain Overland Track, Port Arthur UNESCO 2010, Bay of Fires and the Deep Heritage Island Tour (Tasmanian Wilderness UNESCO 1982) TL;DR Tasmania is the southern island state of Australia, 68,401 square kilometres of cool-temperate rainforest, alpine plateau, sandstone capital city and bone-orange granite coastline, with a population of only about 540,000 people and a striking 42 percent of its land area under formal protection, the highest share of any Australian state. The palawa Aboriginal people have lived here for at least 40,000 years, and they call the island lutruwita. Two UNESCO World Heritage entries define the modern visitor map. The Tasmanian Wilderness, inscribed in 1982 and expanded since, covers about 1.58 million hectares and 20 percent of the state, including Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair, the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers and the southwest. The Au...