Why "Nobody" Lives On Australia's Big Island State: Tasmania

Tasmania v/s Shi Lanker, maybe it was a distance problem in 2023?

It's an incredible delight to watch your videos since I had Majored in Geographical Sciences I can relate to this perfectly.

Tas is a beautiful state . As said rough landscape and very green. After spending days in crowded Melbourne this was a treat
Although it might need a higher population, I hope itnstays a little as it is
Had a great time there

Only go there if you got alot of money.. expensive rent and rental shortages are rife

Decades of hydro electric generation is the main source of renewable energy. Even provided to Melbourne by sub sea cable.

It's full of little devils!

Wow, I can’t believe you made such a glaring omission: Why is it called Tasmania in the first place? Glad you asked. It was named after a Dutch Explorer named Abel Tasmania….the FIRST European to sight the island in 1642. You mentioned a lot about the English…but it was the Dutch who first discovered it. It should have been mentioned I think. Thanks for listening.

I will subscribe when Geoff gets rid of that silly “Man Bun” Pssh!

Because of the vicious Tasmanian Devils that live there.

Thanks!

Just to make some things clear lol. There are plenty of places in Australia that get a higher rainfall than Tasmania (the highest annual average rainfall is in Tully Queensland and Melbourne is known for the most overcast and unpredictable weather) although Tasmania’ precipitation is high.
Manufacturing was an issue to Tas due to freight but we also had ecological political parties here since the 1970’s (when technology and population’s boomed on mainland Australia) leading to what has now become 50.4% protected public and private land. None of that land could be populated by industry or growth in any way.
Tasmanian politics and (with other states industry using our carbon credits) Australian politics will never make Tasmania self sustainable in any way that matters - thats why it is dependent on export, retirees and tourism.

The climate hasn't change down here in Tassie. Heaps of beaches, by the way!

Hi Geoff, I live in Hobart. Please don’t tell too many people about this wonderful place. Hobart has an alpine area, surf beaches, a world famous art gallery, a wine region, amazing trekking, sailing, ocean canoeing, a casino, breweries, trout fishing, fantastic mountain bike trails all within 15 minutes drive from the CBD. Wallabies, platypus and other wild animals live in and around Hobart. It hosts one of the toughest half marathons in the world, going from sea level to 1270 m and the people are super friendly. It is Australia’s base for Antartica research and has the largest number per head of population of scientists of any Australian city. I haven’t even started on the rest of Tasmania. I’m very happy to keep it this way.

For an American audience, I think it's easiest to explain Tasmania as "Australia's West Virginia". Less polluted, though.

I guess that makes me a “nobody”! 🤣

The eastern half of Tassie is far drier than the west. You won’t find a lot of rainforest here, apart from the wetter more mountainous areas. The western half gets most of the rain but also places like Kunanyi/Mt Wellington just out of Hobart get a lot too. I live only 12km in a straight line from the pinnacle, and there is a lot of rainforest on the slopes of the mountain, but where I live it’s all dry sclerophyll. There are a lot of microclimates here!

As far as renewable energy is concerned, we were wholly hydro-powered decades ago and that remains the majority of production. There was a severe drought in the mid-late 1960s which caused the government to build an oil-fired power station and that was later converted to natural gas. That was only ever used if dam levels got too low. As mentioned wind is now playing a significant role too, and we have the capability to export our excess clean energy to the mainland via an undersea cable and import dirty brown coal-fired energy when we need to. There are plans for a second cable, and plans for another wind farm on the NW coast have just been approved.

look at his hair!

You mentioned a "warming World" at least three different times in this 12.5 minute video. The World temperature varies slightly in a cooling/warming cycle that is INPERCIEVABLE to someone who would be considering moving to Tasmania. We are currently in a slight warming trend, but that warming/cooling cycle will continue. You are not old enough to remember just 50 years ago scientist were warning about global cooling.
"Climate change" is a hoax. Have you bought into this hoax?
When the Ice Age melted, was that global warming?? Was it caused by man? Did the World come to an end?
This whole BS of "scientist" being paid (by corporations and governments to promote the global warming hoax) to conduct "research" that supports global warming is unethical and not science at all. Unethical scientist/researchers know that they can make a lifetime income by taking salaries and grants to conduct "research" that will undoubtedly conclude that global warming is real. They really don't care about finding real answers or helping mankind. They are simply living off of handouts driven by a political agenda.
This video was interesting and did not benefit one bit by the references to global warming.

Nobody?

I am American and have a friend who lived in Australia for years and when I told him one of my bucket list places to visit was Tasmania, he got a puzzled look on his face and simply said "but why"? Apparently the mainlanders view Tasmanians as backward and the island as a whole as boring with not much there. That's exactly why i want to go there, for the natural aspects, and the quaintness. I've been to enough big cities.

Your man bun, pale green eyes, and round face make you look like someone friendly who would offer me mushrooms retrieved from his unfathomably large pockets, and they would cause me to pleasantly hallucinate.

Tasmania isn't Australias "Big" empty island. It's Australia's "little" empty island. Mainland Australia is Australia's BIG empty island.

From an American perspective: The Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny with the Tasmanian Devil is what keeps Yanks away. Those Tasmanian Devils are a voracious bunch, that the animal kingdom, save for Bugs Bunny, are fearful of. [your sense of humor is appreciated]

When he finally gets on topic at about 5 minutes into the video, he just speculates on why Tasmania's population is small in comparison to Florida and Sri Lanka, which are, of course, adjacent to other very large population centers. Total waste of time video.

"Owns" Tasmania? Includes Tasmania?

Very informative video! I'm ready to move there!

Plot twist. Australia is Australia's biggest island

The "Australia Act" passed in 1986 was to officially sever ties with the British legal system , making the High Court of Australia the highest court in the land . Prior to that , Australians could appeal to the Privy Council in the UK .
Although Australia is fully politically independent from Britain , it still is essentially just a self governing British Dominion because we still unfortunately maintain the British Monarch as Head of State instead of having our own , and retain outdated British colonial regalia such as British Blue ensigns for state and national flags , crown topped police and military insignia, KC (King's Counsel) Barristers , Royal designations for military units and the government statutory authority is called the Crown !

That's nothing only about 250,000 people live in the Northern Territory wich is 1.42 million km²

Geoff, good effort but you do miss lead the viewer in some cases. We do have miles of beach in fact on the west coast we have 90 mile beach. We have been 100% renewable energy for 100 years, yes we have hydro electric power.
We don't want more people in Tassie because we understand that you must live within your environmental constraints like water and food supply.
Hobart is the driest capital city of Australia it's just that we have more rainy days. And no, the wind doesn't blow all the time.

Someone else has probably made this comment: at the start of the video you talk about bushfires - Tasmania, especially the South East is as prone (if not more) to bushfires as the rest of SE Australia. It is a similar fire climate to the south of France, Spain, Portugal, or parts of California.

Just a question, why choose that scabby wombat as the representative?

Tasmania has the third highest population density of the six Australian states with 8.4 people per square kilometre vs Western Australia at 1.1, South Australia at 1.9 and Queensland at 3.1 with New South Wales only slightly higher at 10.2. If the whole of Australia had Tasmania's population density Australia would have a population of 65 million 2.5 times higher than its current 26 million. So, in the Australian context, the real question is why do so many people live in Tasmania?

Having grown up watching cartoons, I assume it’s because of the devils.

Cute man bun. Do you have a purse that matches?

Thanks for the education.

Wow geo by geo haha and human nature is probably scared to visit the beautiful island because of the Tasmanian devils hey

It's sad now that Australians don't recognise that Tasmania isn't a state, Instead it gets a very bad reputation for a major political incident back in the 90s

I hear the inhabitants LOVE fish.

Shutting off too much blah blah 😢😮

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As a Queenslander, I can understand why we wouldn't go to far south... cold, so cold.
What is the excuse of people already living in Victoria for not heading to Tasmania?

Ummm..... it could be because white settlers exterminated the native Tasmanian people in a bloody genocide. They are gone. All of them. May their ghosts haunt the descendants of the killers for all time.

We all know Australians are afraid of boats....
And your asking for them to live on an Island's Island!

Would subscribe, but your "man bun" is very off-putting. Man up.

As a person born in Australia in 1934 to parents also born in Australia can I say that you talk about aborigines which consisted of over 300 plus separate tribes were constantly at war with each other and their population in total was very small. They were nomads generally. There is not much you can say about them in the positive as far as I am concerned. As to the wild fires ( we all them bushfires) have a look at the statistics, as far as I can see the fires are continuing on as normal. Climate change is rubbish to me. Australia is arguably the most fire prone place on earth with our gum trees mainly. So please stop indoctrinating me and others and stick to the truth the WHOLE truth and nothing but the truth.

Its the setting for Deadloch, which is a hoot of a series. A must see:)).

Simple reason less people live there....its cold

Because they're genetically recessive.

Tasmania does get severe bushfires.

Interesting stuff! I think northern rural Tasmania would be ideal , time to start packing! 😎