Tasmania
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Cartographic Name
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Tasmania
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Indigenous Name
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Lutruwita
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Identifier
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GEO-TAS
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Indigenous Language Family
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Palawa Kani
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language
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Palawa Kani
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Unknown
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English
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text
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Viewed upon the map, the fantastic fragments of island and promontory which lie scattered between the South-West Cape and the greater Swan Port, are like the curious forms assumed by melted lead spilt into water. If the supposition was not too extravagant, one might imagine that when the Australian continent was fused, a careless giant upset the crucible, and spilt Van Diemen's land in the ocean (Clarke 89). Clarke, Marcus. For the Term of His Natural Life. 1874. Floating Press, 2014.