Tasmania lies 240 km south of Melbourne across the Bass Strait. The island is 296 km long, 315 km to the north and south 70 km wide. The varied landscape ranges from rugged, snow-capped mountains in the winter of dense bushland to an idyllic farmland. In the “horizontal forest” the trees grow sideways, so that the logs parallel to the floor. Iceland is located south of Hobart, Bruny with beautiful beaches. The two halves of the island are connected by a narrow isthmus, breed on the sand dunes from August to April penguins.
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University of Tasmania
University of Tasmania – Study in Australia The University of Tasmania is the fourth oldest university in Australia. It was founded in 1890 and since then looking at a long tradition as an internationally recognized research university. Their merger with the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology in Launceston, Tasmania 1991, when the University of Tasmania study conditions improved and modernized. As the only university in Tasmania offers the University of Tasmania a comprehensive range of approximately 200 courses, in and especially in the science area with exceptional disciplines such as Antarctic Studies or Southern Ocean Studies made an international reputation and several awards such as the Services to Students Award was presented. In Antarctica, the University maintains a research station. The integration of the Australian Maritime College at the beginning of 2008 expanded the University of Tasmania their courses, especially in the maritime field.