Geo Quiz

Australia’s deep south

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For today’s Geo Quiz it might be more fitting to play Waltzing Matilda.
Because today is Australia Day, the national holiday that commemorates the founding of Australia 222 years ago. It’s a big deal in Australia’s southern-most state. And that’s the place we want you to name.

It’s an island separated from the state of Victoria by a waterway called the Bass Strait. And it’s in the windy latitudes known as the Roaring Forties. Today, people on this island marked Australia Day, with everything from barbecues to whip cracking competitions.

Australia Day fun in Tasmania

On this day in 1788, a British fleet carrying hundreds of convicts from England arrived in what became the colony of New South Wales. That’s why today marks the founding of Australia. Australia Day is celebrated with great gusto in Tasmania, the answer to our Geo Quiz.

Producer Jake Warga sent us this audio postcard from the town of Latrobe, Tasmania:

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