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Tasmania

Location Between E Indian Ocean, Tasman Sea; S of SE Australia
Latitude and longitude  42 00 S, 146 50 E
Sovereignty Australia
Political status notes A State of Australia
Population  459,659
Census notes 1996
Land area in square kilometers 65,022
Capital  Hobart

Legal documents online
Tasmanian Consolidated Acts, from the Australian Legal Information Institute
Supreme Court of Tasmania decisions, from the Australian Legal Information Institute; decisions from 1987; searchable  

Sources and other useful websites
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Tasmanian Office
Rod Ewins, My Tasmania: A Personal View
Tasmania Online, a service of the State Library of Tasmania
United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch Island Directory

Selected articles on law and political status
Tasmania: The Strange and Verdant Politics of a Strange and Verdant Island, by Dr. Peter Hay (2000), from the Institute of Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island

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