Where is Little Earth?

As a play upon JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth where comparisons have been made to places in Great Britain (although not by Tolkien himself), I've used Little Earth to describe Tasmania, an island state of Australia off the south eastern coast of mainland Australia. As I researched Tasmania prior to making the decision to move there I noticed that many of the place names reflected locations in the United Kingdom such as Kent, Launceston, Perth, Swansea, Dover plus many more. At first glance the landscape, weather and historical achitecture of Tasmania also appear to have more in common with Britain and France than they do with the mediterranean and tropical parts of mainland Australia.