Name
Anthony Trollope used the term Vandemonian: -
They are (the Vandemonians) united in their declaration that the cessation of the coming of convicts has been their ruin
Eventually, in order to remove the unsavoury connotations with crime associated with its name (and its homophonic connection to "demon"), in 1856 Van Diemen's Land was renamed Tasmania in honour of Abel Tasman. The last penal settlement in Tasmania at Port Arthur finally closed in 1877.
The term is not used much, but in a review of a new book of the era the Australian newspaper chose the title of the review as Vandemonian vanity.
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