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Excessive Tasmania people

There are excessive names of people in the notable Tasmanian people section. This should be pruned by about 80%, with the entries left for the list article instead. I think we only need the people who will still be famous after 20 years, so most musicians and writers can be cut. What do others think? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:28, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

The nicknames aren’t accurate

Hey I’ve lived here Since I was born I haven heard of Tasmania ever being called either The Apple Isle or Holiday Isle Comxeno (talk) 08:14, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Probably because you live there! :-) Holiday Isle, Apple Isle, and plenty more... Laterthanyouthink (talk) 10:16, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Or because you are young. Tasmania used to export apples to the UK before they joined EU and the government paid orchardists to bulldose apple trees. Before 2020 there used to be many tourists in Tasmania too. (Now there may be a high population of non-working people, but they are not really on holiday.) Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:54, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

'Tasmaina: The Apple Isle' and 'Tasmaina: The Holiday Isle' were used by Transport Tasmania as the tagline on most Tasmanian numberplates issues in the 1980's and 1990's

Insularity

Hello all

I have removed some highly speculative and controversial material from this section and replaced it with brief factual and neutral information. Specifically I have removed:

"A talented and diligent hydrographer, Cook quickly surmised the likelihood of a strait. The Admiralty had issued its usual verbal instructions to hide strategically important discoveries that could become security risks, such as off-shore islands from which operations could be mounted by a hostile power. Consequently, in his journal Cook disguised his discovery with a riddle; and on his chart he drew a curtain across the truncated channel by sketching a false coastline down to an invented Point Hicks. Cook's cartographic fabrication worked and Tasmania's insularity was suppressed for three more decades."

There is no evidence that Cook discovered Bass Strait but hid his discovery. Cook's relevant journal entry for 19 April 1770 states that it is "doubtful whether they [ie Van Diemen's Land and New Holland] are one land or not." No document has been found indicating that the British Admiralty knew of the existence of a strait between Tasmania and the mainland before Bass's discovery in 1797. It is highly unlikely that the Admiralty would have let Phillip and Vancouver sail to Australia without telling them about Bass Strait if they knew about it. Happy to discuss. --Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 07:33, 18 October 2020 (UTC)