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    Abel Janszoon Tasman (Dutch: [ˈɑbəl ˈjɑnsoːn ˈtɑsmɑn]; 1603 – 10 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 and...
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  • Abel Tasman (1603–1659) was a Dutch explorer. Abel Tasman may also refer to: Abel Tasman (horse) (born 2014), American thoroughbred racehorse Abel Tasman...
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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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    FV Margiris (redirect from FV Abel Tasman)
    factory ship. In 2012, Seafish Tasmania brought the ship (then named the Abel Tasman) to Australia. She was originally authorized to catch a quota of 18,000...
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    island was previously discovered and named by the Dutch in 1642. Explorer Abel Tasman discovered the island, working under the sponsorship of Anthony van Diemen...
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    Abel Tasman (foaled March 12, 2014) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse. After finishing fifth in her first start at age two, she won her next...
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  • first known contact between Europeans and Māori, when Dutch explorer Abel Tasman visited Golden Bay / Mohua. The members of the Kurahaupō waka initially...
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    subsequently developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1769 the...
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    functions. Tasman Bay, the largest indentation in the north coast of the South Island, was named after Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant Abel Tasman. He...
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    from Abel Tasman's voyages The Abel Tasman map 1644. The first European impression of Māori, at Murderers' Bay. Drawing by Isaack Gilsemans in Abel Tasman's...
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  • up Tasman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tasman most often refers to Abel Tasman (1603–1659), Dutch explorer. Tasman may also refer to: Tasman booby...
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    The Abel Tasman Coast Track is a 60 kilometres (37 mi) long walking track within the Abel Tasman National Park in New Zealand. It extends from Mārahau...
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    named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642. Tasman named the island Anthony...
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    Tasmania power generation schemes. The Nils Holgersson (3) was renamed Abel Tasman on 21 April 1985, and set sail for Australia, she arrived in Devonport...
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  • footballer Abel Miguel Suárez (born 1991), Spanish footballer Abel Tamata (born 1990), Dutch footballer Abel Tasman (born 2014), American racehorse Abel Thermeus...
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    first Europeans who may have seen Aoraki / Mount Cook were members of Abel Tasman's crew, who saw a "large land uplifted high" (probably some part of the...
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    (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011) Hoving, Ab; Emke, Cor: De schepen van Abel Tasman [The Ships of Abel Tasman]. (Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2000) [in Dutch] Kenny...
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    part of their culture. The first European explorers to New Zealand were Abel Tasman, who arrived in 1642; Captain James Cook, in 1769; and Marion du Fresne...
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    Zealand was named after Zeeland after it was sighted by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. Zeeland was a contested area between the counts of Holland and Flanders...
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    with her sister Peter Pan (2). In 1985 it was purchased and renamed Abel Tasman by TT-line (Tasmania) and after the Australian National Line (ANL) announced...
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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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    The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman. The name came for a time to be applied in most European maps to the...
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    the explorer Abel Tasman. He is memorialised in town by a monument, plaque and street name. In 2014, a museum dedicated to Abel Tasman opened in the...
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    2269. Wallis, H. Margaret (n.d.). Abel Tasman. Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abel-Tasman Robert Langdon (ed.) Where the whalers...
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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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    to Eendrachtsland—after his ship, a name which would be in use until Abel Tasman named the land New Holland in 1644. In 1619 Frederik de Houtman, in the...
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    leaves a big expanse of bay empty". The Wainui River flows north through Abel Tasman National Park from its sources on the slopes of Mount Evans to reach...
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    spotted Tongans in a canoe off the coast of Niuatoputapu, followed by Abel Tasman who passed by the islands on 20 January 1643. These visits were brief...
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    "New Holland", an English translation of the Dutch name, first given by Abel Tasman in 1643 as the name for the continent. The name Australia has been applied...
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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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