For me music made it unwatchable with sound on. Perhaps due to some issues with my hearing. Am keen to watch your content without having to mute sound and read transcript. Please help
I find the music really grating. Trying to watch the video anyway but it's really hard. Like the music is pulling teeth in my brain... Love your content, though, please keep going, it's great! Thank you, I've learned so much from you!
It’s a long great story. I left Tassie for a summer fishing job in Alaska but it didn’t pan out as expected and I couldn’t afford to go anywhere. Alaska in the 70s was the land of opportunity and I ended up building a cabin on a piece of property and spent the next 50 years commercial fishing, construction and I then retired from teaching. The cabin morphed into a house and my wife and I spend our summers up there and winters on the east coast USA. I’ve been back to Tassie twice since I left.
I left Tassie 2 months ago after a 3 month roaming holiday there. I still think about it every day. I legit feel homesick for a place I never lived in 😢
Likewise, I went there 2 weeks ago for just under one week. It amazes me how the mountains are just casually everywhere, aside the ocean, and just beside a supermarket.
I feel this way about Vietnam. I spent less time, about a month there but I think about it ALL the time; and I was there almost five years ago. I miss it like I should miss home.
@@GlennVeugen MInor quibble - Three territories: NT, ACT, and Jervis Bay Territory. Most people think JBT is just part of the ACT, because it is mostly administerd by the ACT (but also some by NSW, some by the Navy, and some by Shoalhaven council). ACT laws apply, number plates are in the ACT series, and JBT is part of an ACT federal elctorate. But it's been a seperate territory since 1915. This is could be "an obscure fact about Australia even most Aussies get wrong"!
@@mrewan6221 There is actually a host of territories but none on the level of the ACT and NT. Those two alone have their own governments and chief ministers.
@@jayfielding1333 Yes, there are lots (Is it about a dozen?). I should have said three _mainland_ territories, The comment I was referring to mentioned "two mainland territories". I agree the comment could have spoken about quasi-self-governance, etc, but a bare "two mainland territories" always makes me want to quibble (probably for no good reason).
Not mentioned here is Cape Grim located on the island's north western tip. It has a air pollution measurement station and is known to have the cleanest air on the planet. Worth a read for its' infamy too.
Great Video with just a few points. Strahan = Straw + n. I would highlight that a lot of the wilderness falls under world heritage listing rather than national parks. Most UNESCO World Heritage sites meet only one or two of the ten criteria for that status. The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA) meets seven out of ten criteria. Only one other place on earth-China’s Mount Taishan-meets that many criteria. Also huon pines are up to 3000 years old.
I’ll never forget getting caught up in a snow storm at cradle mountain followed by chilling on the beach and swimming in the ocean on the eastern coast the nextday. I think it was Freycinett. Truly amazing place Tassie.
This is the most beautiful state the grow up in . Stunning and beautiful. Thank you for bringing my home state for the world to see, thank you 🙏 it is so breathtaking to explore and live 😊
Your map of Tasmanian rivers shows the Derwent River stopping considerably short of its mouth where it runs into Storm Bay. Further you show the South Esk River running into Bass Strait. It stops at Launceston where it meets the North Esk River and is then known as the Tamar River.
You know Eve and her gang most have up graded to Landing Strips these days,if ya Don't remove the bush it's to tricky to tickle the Roush.@@keithyork8226
I fell in love with Tasmania when I holidayed there; a good place to live and the cooler climate would be a welcome change from the sticky humidity of Queensland. Stunningly beautiful.
@@jasonhaven7170 every civilisation over the entire time of modern humans, where invading foreigners, have defeated, enslaved, pushed out, and wiped out, native populations.
@@jasonhaven7170hate to break it to ya bud but if you think those countries responsible of these ‘ crimes ‘ are the only ones who engaged in that your dead wrong
The best part about Tasmania is the air. When you breath in it feels like breathing in rich, sweet clean air. It's un-comparable to anywhere else. The best quality air in the world. Even in Melbourne where I grew up, which still has quite good air quality, feels dirty in comparison
@SanctusPaulus1962 there's plenty of jobs, it just depends what you're wanting to do. It will seem like there's not many jobs if they're advertised jobs that you're not interested in 🤷♂️ Housing on the other hand, I agree. Trying to find a rental property can very challenging for many people.
I lived and worked in Strahan for a while and I can tell you: the weather can be brutal down there. It's beautiful though. When you're walking through the thick rainforest you expect a dinosaur to walk by any second.
Tasmania is far enough away from Mainland Australia that people there live a more relaxed lifestyle. Only 2 ways to get there; boat or plane and both take time. Tasmania has always been a favorite of mine. Another beautiful State of Australia.
I can’t tell you how much I love Geography the earth space universe science maths education teaching speaking reading teaching traveling constant learning incessant continuous learning wisdom purity environment cleanliness green life everything
Fun fact: If you're into dinosaurs, you probably remember the "Time of Titans" episode of the 1999 series Walking With Dinosaurs. That episode was (partly) filmed in Tasmania
Thanks for explaining why bass strait is so rough. Now I know why I vomited on the fishing boat trip, totally wasn’t the drinking binge the night before
For those correcting the accidental there-are-seven-states error by saying Tasmania is the 6th state, consider this: At federation all states were created at the same time. (Maybe Western Australia was a little late to join?) So you can't really say which is first, second, third, etc. (This is despite NSW having "Premier State" on thier number plates for a while.) Instead we could proclaim the order as when the previous colonies were formed. Tasmania was the second colony, and could justifiably claim to be the 2nd state. The Tasmanian Legislative Council has been running longer than any other chamber in any house of parliament except the NSW upper house. (Yes I know there are thinks like population, economy, and land area which would all suggest 6th state!) For those saying "actually, there are five states": no, you're just wrong.
The thumbnail shows a massive impact crater in the middle of the island with the central peak at Mt Ossa in the Central Plateau, in the north it abuts into Bass Strait at Devonport whereas the eastern wall is defined by the hills east of the plain, while it abuts into the Southern Ocean near Hobart, the ring formation can similarly be traced around to the west .. the "Horns of Tasmania" west of Burnie and east of Launceston are fallout from the initial impact which must have been in the order of billions of years past.
As someone who grew up in regional NSW and now lives in Sydney Tassie speaks to me as I'm not really a city person. Plus the year round cool weather speaks to me.
Good for you mate! As a sydneysider fed up with the tough life here....how has your experience been so far? What're the common challenges? Thanks in advance!
@@ziggyfrnds I am not from Sydney, but have lived in Tassie my whole life and visit the mainland frequently. Biggest difference is infrastructure, no real big sporting events, concerts, large company’s. But I haven’t met someone from the mainland move back to the mainland for any other reason besides family. People tend to move here and love it.
@@XaviRonaldo0 "cool" weather I'm from Tassie and found summer in the northern territory more bearable than it is here something about the island makes 20 degrees feel like 40 and summer get's into 30s
I live on the side of Kunanyi (aka Mount Wellington) and it's such a beautiful place. I'm sitting in my garden, it's 24°c and I can see an Echidna pottering around in the bush ❤
I have at times considered moving to Tasmania. As I've gotten older and fatter I've become less tolerant fo heat. The year round cool temperature speaks to me. I've have been scared off though because of less work opportunities.
Cooler than mainland Australia, but it feels warmer at 25c there than 25c in some other Australian places. The sun is also more intense, so, slip, slap, slop.
I just watched this at home in Kingston, Tasmania. Your pronunciation of Strahan was funny! 😉I think the rest was correct. 👍 I can vouch for Bass Strait’s rough seas too. I served in the RAN long ago and have transited up there in 10 metre seas. That was fun, having the upper decks out of bounds and having to strap ourselves into our racks!🤣
I would go to Tassie For the Christmas holidays every year as a kid with my mum and dad. 6 weeks each time. I’m now pushing 40 and to this day I wish I lived there. Turners beach the mouth of the fourth river ❤️
Mostly good video, with a few mistakes: 0:11 Tas rainforests are not "untouched". Tragically, many, with trees 100's of years old, are being logged for timber, even in national parks. 0:16 Tasmania is the 6th state. There are only 6 states, plus various territories. 2:03 The town of Strahan is pronounced Strawn. 6:04 This video uses an image from 1980's protests against a hydro-power dam on the Franklin river, to make a confused point about conservationists opposing the Marinus link connector to the mainland. This is not the case. There IS opposition to the cable link - but it's because it would cost a fortune, and it would be far far cheaper and less risky to build battery storage on the mainland so that each state is self-sufficient in energy.
The town of Strahan is actually pronounced more like "stawn" but it'd be ridiculous to be mad at you for that since so so many of our place names are verbalised the last way you'd expect lmao
Just been watching how Tasmania was formed separately to the Australian mainland, by breaking off from modern day North America. Tasmania can be regarded as its own mini-continent.
@krayxeez Something going on I posted the name of the video with the information, and the post got deleted . There is a whole video about Tassies Geography
I lived in Australia through most of the 80s, my cousin was married to a beautiful Tasmanian lass and we lived in Melbourne. Her brother had a saying that cracks me up to this day......."Victoria is the Arsehole of Australia and Tasmania is the Shit that comes out of it". I know little things amuse little minds but what the hey.....still cracks me up!!! LOL
Australia has only 6 states and 2 territories, you were correct when you said it was the 6th state but then you incorrectly corrected yourself to 7th in editing probably thinking that northern territory is a state which is reasonable to presume cause of how big it is but it is territory, its in the name.
Australia has more than 2 territories, I will list them -Northern Territory -Australian Capital Territory (aka Canberra or ACT) -Jervis Bay Territory -Norfolk Island Territory -Coral Sea Islands Territory -Cocos (Keeling) Islands Territory -Christmas Island Territory -Ashmore and Cartier Islands Territory -Heard Island and McDonald Islands Territory -and the best one of all Australian Antarctic Territory
Tasmania has always been its own strange little place, unique from the rest of the country. It even inspired a part of the lore within Shadowrun, think Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder, but set in the real world. From what lore I know, during The Awakening, the island "awoke" and began devouring towns and reclaiming the land; the only people who still live there worship it in hopes it doesn't eat them too. As a native of the West Coast, I'm writing some similar fiction that explains why there are so many wildlife reserves around the lower half and central regions... it's not to protect the land from us, it's to protect us from the land...
That weather pattern - lots of rain in the south-west, snow dumped over the central highlands, then dry in the north-east - is replicated on the south island of New Zealand, and for the same reasons. That weather, carrying a LOT of water, having passed over the great southern ocean all the way from South America with nothing in between, then hits the land mass and the rain gets dumped. The air then gets pushed up the central highlands (in Tasmania) or the NZ Alps, drops whatever moisture remains as snow, then the north-east is dry. We live in the Central Highlands of Tasmania, and can rely on those weather patterns and fronts coming from the south-west.
Tasmainian platypuses are do not really grow up to three times larger than mainland ones. On average they are about 20-25% larger. The biggest ones ever found might be three times larger than the smallest ever found on the mainland so perhaps that is what is meant in this video.
Tasmania is the 6th state as the narrator says. The Northern Territory is a territory, as is the Australian Capital Territory (where our capital, Canberra, is). 6 states and 2 territories
Now why is Australia in the ‘bottom right hand corner’ of a world map. In Australia we split the globe mid Atlantic and push the yanks off to the right. That way no island countries in the Pacific are separated, makes much more sense. Next we need to get the North on the bottom. More landmass- so it must be heavier….
I agree that splitting the world map on the Atlantic makes more sense for the reasons mentioned above. However, oceanic plates are denser than continental plates, so I'd argue that the southern hemisphere (with its greater amount of oceanic plate) is heavier than the northern hemisphere, and therefore should stay on the bottom of the world map.
Nice content, but please research local pronunciation of names. For example, the west coast town of Strahan is not pronounced as "Strayhan", but rather "Strawn". Cheers :)