History and resources of Tasmania

Tasmania 1642 was discovered by the Dutch navigator abel tasman, who began to name it Vandimens Land after the Prime Minister who sponsored his voyage. 1802 was incorporated into Britain to prevent the French from settling on the island. After the port city of Sydney, the British settled the second group of colonists in Tasmania, mostly prisoners from norfolk island.

This white colonization is a very disgraceful page in Australian history, and the hunting of indigenous people on the island began from this page. Decades later, the indigenous people on the island were basically slaughtered. Indigenous people who survived the genocide also died of diseases brought by whites. The last Tasmanian died in 1876.

For the authorities at that time, Vandimensi Island was an easy-to-control prison, and for prisoners, it was a reception room for death. The writer Marcus Clark described this cruel life in his book Justice of Man. In nearly 50 years, Port Arthur has become an effective model of the British prison system. It was not until 1856 that the island was named Tasmania to attract more respectable colonists. Now the site of Port Arthur Prison has become a hot spot in Tasmania.

Fishing has always been Tasmania's main business. In the last century, whaling ships became fishing boats specializing in crustaceans (shrimps, lobsters and crabs), accounting for 75% of the Australian fishery. Despite the local government's efforts to industrialize enterprises, Tasmania is still an agricultural state. Due to the warm and humid climate, the dairy industry is very developed, and Tasmania is also known as Apple Island.

The construction of a dam on the river on the island was strongly protested by conservationists. 1983 The construction of a dam on the Gaoertang River triggered a political crisis and shocked all of Australia.

Today, Tasmania's main wealth is tourism. At that time, the British people missed their hometown very much and tried their best to rebuild old-fashioned English villages on the other side of the globe. The small villages there were all made up of old-fashioned farmhouses. Even today, everything is very much like England. Hawthorn fence and eucalyptus low wall are out of place.

However, due to economic problems, many Tasmanians moved to big cities in Chinese mainland.