
10 TAS Miena to Devonport

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Last edit: 12-05-2023
Tasmania is known for its many national parks, green rugged landscapes and the Tasmanian Devil. Only a few living specimens of the Tasmanian Devil are known. Much of the island is untouched and designated as a national or wildlife park. In addition, one can find many waterfalls in Tasmania. Tasmania's coastline is mountainous with a number of white sand beaches. In the waters around Tasmania you can dive and snorkel to the colorful underwater life. Tasmania has a diversity of flora and fauna; the most diverse types of plants, trees and animals, especially birds and a lot of typical Australian marsupials, which you will not find anywhere else in the world!
You're going to see and experience it all in this 5 star rated amazing tour of Tasmania, a tour that also visits the capital Hobart is one to remember!
Starting point: Miena, Great Lake Hotel
Terminus: Devonport, Spirit of Tasmania Devonport, Terminal
Animation
Verdict
Duration
3h 19m
Mode of travel
Car or motorcycle
Distance
224.61 km
Countries


yingina - Great Lake
Once on your way, wind through the area on your way to "Prospect Vale". Prospect Vale is a locality in the Launceston and Meander Valley local government areas. Prospect Vale was announced as a place in 1963. The land was originally used by European settlers for grazing cattle and keeping horses. The suburb was originally part of the adjacent suburb of Prospect, which was proclaimed in 1958. Prospect Primary School was the first school in the area. This school is now known as Summerdale Primary School, and is in the suburb of Summerhill.
In Prospect Vale, you can have a drink and a drink outside at the Iron Horse Bar & Grill, and also return your rented motorcycle. You will need to arrange other transport to Devonport.
After Prospect Vale, you can stop at Entally House, this is a Grade II listed building in Hadspen. It was the childhood home of Thomas Reibey, who was Prime Minister of Tasmania from 1876 to 1877. The Entally Estate was founded in 1819 by Thomas Haydock Reibey (senior). Reiby worked in the East India company and named the house after the suburb of Entally in Calcutta, India. In 1978, the house and outbuildings were entered in the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.
After this it continues through another rural area to Devonport, where not only this route ends, but also this 10 day tour.
Information Tasmania
Tasmania was connected to the Australian mainland for most of the past 100,000 years. As a result, it was probably populated quite soon after the arrival of the first explorers in Australia. The first Australians may have arrived on the continent as early as 60,000 years ago. Tasmanians looked like dark Africans. They were quite large: the men averaged 5'6" to 5'7", but some were up to 2' tall. The oldest archaeological sites on the island are Warreen Cave, estimated to be 34,790 years old, and Parmerpar Meethaneer Cave, which is between 44,200 and 34,000 years old. The stone tools of the Tasmanians were quite primitive compared to those of other modern humans. The island became separated from the mainland again about 8,000 years ago. Subsequently, this underwent considerable development, while in Tasmania some techniques, such as those of tools with handles, were even lost. The Tasmanians lived as hunters and gatherers. They numbered, according to estimates, between 3,000 and 10,000 people. There were several tribes that regularly fought among themselves. The Tasmanians, like people elsewhere, made art, including rock art.
The governor of the Dutch East Indies, Antonie van Diemen, commissioned Abel Tasman on a voyage of discovery to mainland Australia. On his journey, Tasman discovered the island that was later named after him on November 24, 1642. He named it after his client: Van Diemensland. At the end of the 18th century, the English colonized the island and took English and Irish deportees there. After these deportations from England were stopped, the Vandiemenslanders changed the name of the island to 'Tasmania' on January 1, 1856, after its Dutch discoverer. The capital Hobart is, after Sydney, the oldest city in Australia. In 1803, the English governor, John Bowen, declared martial law. The original Tasmanians (Aboriginals) were almost completely wiped out until 1830. There are no direct descendants of Tasmanians left, only people who are descended from female Tasmanians and Europeans. The last full-blooded Tasmanian, Trucanini, died in May 1876. Although the island is the smallest state, there are approximately 500 self-contained protected areas, totaling 40% of Tasmania's land area. For example, the Styx Valley is threatened by logging companies and many other nature areas that are not protected are also threatened with total destruction. Nevertheless, the Tasmanian wilderness is a World Heritage Site in terms of nature and culture.
There are two types of predatory marsupials in Tasmania. For example, the island is the only place where the Tasmanian devil still roams, a 60 cm long, carnivorous and black and white colored marsupial, known for its great voracity and ferocity. Since the late 20th century, the number of Tasmanian devils has been visibly declining. This is the result of, among other things, a tumor disease. Another predatory marsupial mainly found in Tasmania is the spotted marsupial, a marsupial averaging 35 cm in length with a white-spotted, light brown color. Until the early 1930s, Tasmania was also the only area where the marsupial wolf (or Tasmanian tiger) still lived, but the last specimen of this predatory marsupial animal died in 1936 at Hobart Zoo. Tasmania is home to a number of other animals that are not (or no longer) found anywhere else. The Pseudomys higginsi is an approximately 13 cm large rodent, which mainly lives in the higher forests. The red-bellied pademelon is a brownish kangaroo about 60 cm high that only jumps around in Tasmania. The Tasmanian bristle-tailed kangaroo rat is a 12-inch (30 cm) long, brownish-grey kangaroo rat that lives only in Tasmania and moves at night and on the ground.
The Tasmanians were the indigenous people of the Australian state of Tasmania. Today, however, they are considered extinct as there are no full-blooded Tasmanians left. The people disappeared (due to murders and European diseases) in the years after the European colonization of Tasmania. The last full-blooded Tasmanian, a woman named Truganini, died in 1876.
The descendants of the Tasmanians still live in Tasmania, but much of their original culture and language has been lost. However, since the 1970s, attempts have been made to revive this culture.

Spirit of Tasmania Devonport, Terminal

Entally House Historic Site
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