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.
