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    Abel Janszoon Tasman (Dutch: [ˈaːbəl ˈjɑnsoːn ˈtɑsmɑn]; 1603 – 10 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642...
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    from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1642 was the first known person to cross it. British explorer...
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    Abel Tasman National Park is a national park at the north end of New Zealand's South Island. It covers 237.1 km2 (91.5 sq mi) of land between Golden Bay...
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    Australia, it is named after Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman. Climate change in New Zealand "Tasman Glacier retreat extreme". Massey University....
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    The Abel Tasman Monument is a memorial to the first recorded contact between Europeans—led by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman—and Māori in New Zealand's...
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    University, retrieved 28 December 2008 Heeres, J. E. (1965) [1898], Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal, Amsterdam; Los Angeles: Royal Dutch Geographical Society...
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    Discovery of Tasmania: Journal Extracts from the Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne 1642 & 1772, St David's Park Publishing/Tasmanian...
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  • to adopt the name of their ships. The family Tas or Tasman - not related to Abel Janszoon Tasman, who came from Lutjegast in Groningen - counted so many...
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    "Abel Janszoon Tasman, His Life and Labours", Abel Tasman's Journal, Los Angeles, 1965, pp. 137, 141–2; cited in Andrew Sharp, The Voyages of Abel Janszoon...
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    Heemskerck was the flagship of Abel Janszoon Tasman's exploratory voyage of 1642. She and her consort Zeehaen were the first European ships to explore...
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  • -zoon for sons, -dochter for daughters. For instance, Abel Janszoon Tasman is "Abel son of Jan Tasman", and Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer: "Kenau, daughter...
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    Europeans known to have reached New Zealand were the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman and his crew in 1642. Māori killed several of the crew, and no more...
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  • Pacific Ocean Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585–1616), Dutch Flemish explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603–1659), the first European to discover New Zealand, Tasmania...
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    Willem Janszoon made the first documented European sight and landing on the continent of Australia in Cape York Peninsula. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman...
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    Willem Janszoon, made the first completely documented European landing in Australia (1606), in Cape York Peninsula, and Abel Janszoon Tasman circumnavigated...
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  • after series battles against regional Kingdoms. 1642: Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand. 1642:...
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    Discovery of Tasmania: Journal Extracts from the Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne 1642 & 1772, St David's Park Publishing/Tasmanian...
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    decided in August 1642 to send Abel Janszoon Tasman, accompanied by Visscher, in search of the Great South Land, which Tasman would soon dub "Nieuw Holland"...
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    Discovery of Tasmania: Journal Extracts from the Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne 1642 & 1772, St David's Park Publishing/Tasmanian...
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    European landing on the Australian continent occurred in the Janszoon voyage of 1605–06. Abel Tasman in two distinct voyages in the period 1642–1644 is recorded...
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    where Willem Janszoon first sighted the Australian coast in 1606. Tasmania - Australian state, along with 31 other places with the name of Tasman in Tasmania...
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    Awapoto River (category Abel Tasman National Park)
    land to be incorporated into Abel Tasman National Park. Since 2017, the Department of Conservation and Project Janszoon have released just under 300 brown...
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    English theologian and colonist (d. 1684) Abel Janszoon Tasman, Dutch seafarer and explorer (d. 1659) Louis Abelly, French monk and priest (d. 1691) Margareta...
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    Awaroa Inlet (category Abel Tasman National Park)
    remote, alluring body of water within the Abel Tasman National Park, at the northern end of Tasman Bay, in the Tasman Region of the South Island, New Zealand...
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  • Australia. Xlibris Corporation. pp. 72–73. ISBN 9781543401684. "Abel Janszoon Tasman, 1603?–1659". Princeton University Library. 2010. Archived from the...
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    Archived 30 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine Gutenberg Australia Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal, edited by J E Heeres (1898), see descriptive note. Townsend...
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    services to Guernsey, Gran Canaria, Antalya, Crete, Mallorca & Bodrum. Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603–1659), explorer, seafarer, merchant for the Dutch East India...
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    of Viti Levu, Fiji, 1876. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: R&R Clark. p. 174. Abel Janszoon Tasman Biography Archived 12 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine, www.answers...
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    Murderers' Bay, as you are at anchor here in 15 fathom [1642]. Tasman, Abel Janszoon. Tasman's journal. Amsterdam, Friedrich Muller & Co, 1898.. Ref: PUBL-0086-021...
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    fictional accounts of an imagining of a Great Southern Land. In 1642 Abel Janszoon Tasman landed in Tasmania and after examining notches cut at considerable...
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