Webber's accident happened while he was riding in his own charity event in Tasmania.
In 1642, Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen's land, named after his captain and later renamed Tasmania.
Ferries from Tasmania to Australia's mainland are booked up for at least two days.
UN's arms inspectors in Iraq, as Tasmania's governor, the nominal representative of the British monarch.
The mill is being built by Gunns, a company that controls most of Tasmania's timber industry.
Drawn by its wilderness, wines and food, Australians are visiting Tasmania in large numbers.
With the exception of the firefighter in Tasmania, however, no deaths have yet been reported.
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Only two other giant squid have ever been found in Tasmania, in 1986 and 1991.
Seafish Tasmania claims the ship has not caught a single dolphin in the past seven years.
Australian police are searching fire-ravaged towns in southern Tasmania looking for 100 unaccounted people.
On Friday, Tasmania experienced its peak temperature since records began with levels hitting 41.8C.
One of the most remarkable examples of the custom was found at an isolated country house in Tasmania.
Passengers at Tasmania's Hobart airport told ABC news they might be stuck on the island for several days.
Australia introduced sweeping new gun laws after 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, were shot dead in 1996.
Geocaching occurs from Tasmania to Patagonia, with the United States and West Europe contributing the most sites and players.
The academic is a permanent resident of Australia and until June taught at the University of Tasmania, in Hobart.
Bell Bay is just 22 miles (35km) north of Launceston, Tasmania's second-biggest city.
The dogs only failed to reach Tasmania because rising sea levels had inundated the Bass Strait some 6, 000 years earlier.
Greens say that one of the latest victims last month was the world's biggest flowering hardwood tree in Tasmania's Florentine Valley.
He underwent surgery last month on the right leg he broke at a mountain bike event in Tasmania in December 2009.
Tasmania will ban the display of tobacco in shops in 2011 and other parts of Australia are considering doing the same.
One of only two companies with rights to catch fish in Tasmania, Tassal Group, holds a 70% market share in Australia.
All its flights in and out of Tasmania and the New Zealand cities of Christchurch, Queenstown and Wellington have already been cancelled.
By choosing an avowed republican from Sydney, Tasmania has gone further than any other Australian state in modernising this anachronistic constitutional position.
It is unpopular with ranchers in Tasmania because it occasionally eats lambs.
After one man wielding a semi-automatic rifle murdered 35 people in Tasmania the month after Dunblane, Australia drastically tightened its gun laws.
Around the same time activists in America were fighting to protect Yosemite and Yellowstone, environmentalists in Australia sought to defend the beautiful lands of Tasmania.
Acting Tasmania Police Commissioner Scott Tilyard said about 100 remained unaccounted for.
The Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge is a 250km endurance event consisting of mountain bike riding, kayaking and trekking on the Australian island.
Fires are also burning in Victoria and Tasmania, where a firefighter tackling a blaze on the Tasman peninsula was found dead on Sunday.
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