Sunday, September 9, 2012

Tasmania: looking for love in the end of the world

Tasmania Prefecture is located inAustralia, 240 km to the south, and Melbourne across the sea, there exists a Bass Strait, the Tasmania island is from the Antarctic recently a piece of the mainland, so the "end of the world". Tower island consists of a plurality of bird island, the main island of Tasmania, there is a greater Bruni Island, the island, Flinders Island, Mcquarrie Island, as well as some spread all over the island, a total area of 68332 square kilometers, equivalent to about ChinaTaiwan1 times, but only 500000 of the population, with much land and few people really.

TasmaniaTasmania

Tasmania scenery is very difficult to summarize in one sentence, but said the main view is "Dashan" it didn't seem like beside the point, because it is one of the world's most mountainous island, according to the landform, where millions of years ago was connected with Antarctica, is one of the few large tracts of ancient schist with structural landform area...... Although there are charming scenery of the harbor, the steep coast, silver beach and countless yacht, but visitors to leave a deeper impression may be that without stop hills, valleys, plateaus and volcano. Tasmania's "mountain", in fact, is not high, the highest elevation of only 1600 meters. As the "hill is not high, it has a" tower, local customs and practices and cultural landscape are hidden in the rolling mountains, a wild profusion of vegetation.

Tasmania Cradle MountainTasmania Cradle Mountain

In Tasmania, eucalyptus is a king, because people see most is the eucalyptus, can be described as "state tree". Eucalyptus, eucalyptus, Myrtaceae is. In Tasmania the ups and downs of the mountain or hilly areas, touch the sky from large trees to low shrubs, branches grayish white, eucalyptus leaves green, yellow seems to be everywhere. According to the tour guide said, in the light of Eucalyptus species of as many as 750 kinds, and most species of origin in australia. "What birds have", the phrase used in the tower island is appropriate, in the dense primeval forest, the habitat of Honeyeater, black jays, black magpie, black cockatoo and various other parrot. Not only numerous bird species, also live here a lot of mammalian animal, such as wallabies, brush-tailed possum and common ringtail possum, carnivorous, quoll, parantechinus apicalis and Tasmania bag Huan. Carex plant growth and the moor with wombat. The coastal zone is the green Rosella and oviparous mammals platypus and echidna hometown...... Tower island is not only a natural without carving big park, it is called a "wild zoo".

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