This Dutch explorer discovered & named Van Diemen's Land, an island now named for him
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European Exploration - 1606 to 1798 by Caitlyn Diamonds on Prezi  In 1606, dutch explorer, Willem Jansz set sail from Indonesia on the Duyfken ship. ... him, and the Australian people that live near the coastline are now called Torres ... He named his discovery Van Diemen's land. ... On the 29th of June, 1629, the Batavia ship was shipwrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos islands in Western...
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Abel Janszoon Tasman | Dutch explorer and navigator | Britannica ...  Jun 10, 2016 ... Greatest of the Dutch navigators and explorers, who discovered ... and he skirted its southern shores, naming it Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). .... to see parts of Australia, including the island that is now named for him.
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early Explorers | Tasmania, Australia | Abel Tasman, James Cook ...  Tasmania's early explorers include Bligh, Bass, Cook, Furneaux, Tasman, Banks and others. ... Anthony Van Diemen, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, had appointed ... Tasman sailed from Batavia (Jakarta) 14th August 1642 to the island of ... On sailing from Van Diemen's Land Tasman would discover and name...
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Abel Janszoon Tasman - Princeton University  Legacy of Tasman's name: Tasmania (island state of Australia), Tasmanian Devil ... the Netherlands and the VOC; Tasman named the territory Van Diemen's Land ... Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of His Discovery of Van Diemens Land and ... and kept by the wind with our pinnace; we made him plant the said pole with...
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Abel Tasman - Wikipedia  Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now .... He named his discovery Van Diemen's Land after Antonio van Diemen,...
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Caroline's review of The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic ...  Aug 10, 2012 ... Manhattan, or New Amsterdam as it was known in the 1620s had a short colonization under the Dutch who founded New Netherlands before it was ... the one-legged governor who lost Manhattan to the English in 1664, this...
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Abel Tasman - Wikipedia  Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand, .... He named his discovery Van Diemen's Land after Antonio van Diemen,...
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Willem Schouten - Revolvy  In 1616 Schouten rounded Cape Horn , which he named after the recently ... Hoorn, and the Dutch city of Hoorn , after which the lost ship was named, the town in which ... South America 's Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica . ... Rotterdam ) was a sailor from the Netherlands , who represented his native...
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Bass and Flinders  kidcyber  Information about Matthew Flinders and George Bass, explorers of Australia for students K ... They proved that Tasmania was an island, separated from the mainland of Australia. ... In 1798 they sailed along the northern coast of Van Dieman's Land. ... Australia and Van Dieman's Land and it was later named Bass Strait by...
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The history of the island of Mauritius - Indian Ocean  Sep 3, 2013 ... The Dutch were the first to try a settlement at Grand Port in 1598 and named the island after the Prince Maurice Van Nassau. For a time, they...
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Abel Janszoon Tasman - Princeton University  First Expedition (1642): Two ships (Heemskerck and Zeehaen), 110 men ... Accomplishments: Discovered Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), New Zealand, Fiji...
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Matthew Flinders - davidreilly.com  Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) was born in Lincolnshire in England. ... He met George Bass, a ship's doctor, when they were both sailing to Australia on the Reliance. ... that he could prove that Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) was an island. ... In 1798, Bass and Flinders sailed the Norfolk through Bass Strait and round Van...
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Explorers  They called the route they were looking for the Northwest Passage. ... Some places still have names from Aboriginal languages, such as Ottawa. .... The Mi'kmaq made signals to show Cartier they wanted to trade with him. ... He discovered a bay near a large island, which was later named Baffin Island after William Baffin,...
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Abel Tasman | NZHistory, New Zealand history online  The dutch explorer Abel Tasman is officially recognised as the first European to ... for smugglers and rebels, in 1642 he was appointed to head an expedition to the 'still ... of a land that Tasman named Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) after the ... on 4 December and sighted the west coast of the South Island on the 13th.
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Zeeland - Wikipedia  Namesakes. The islands of New Zealand were discovered for the western world by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman in 1642, although he did not land in New Zealand. Tasman named it Staten Landt, believing it to be part of the land of that name off the coast of Argentina.
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Fiji History - Go-Fiji.com  The first discovery was made in 1643 by a Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman. ... to land on Fiji was English navigator Captain James Cook in 1774, and he also ... The Fijians had called their land Viti, but the Tongans called it Fisi, and so it was...
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Janszoon voyage of 160506 - Wikipedia  Willem Janszoon made the first recorded European landing on the Australian continent in 1606 ... He had originally arrived in Dutch East Indies from the Netherlands in 1598 and became an officer of the VOC on its establishment in 1602. ... shore of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, near the modern town of Weipa.
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Willem Schouten | Dutch explorer | Britannica.com  Dutch explorer whose 161516 expedition discovered a new route, the ... His son Jakob and veteran sea captain Schouten led the voyage that set sail in ... He gave the southernmost tip of America the name Cape Horn (Dutch: Kaap Hoorn). ... of the Dutch navigator Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, who rounded it in 1616.
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Van Diemen's Land - Wikipedia  Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, ... In 1856 the colony was granted responsible self-government with its own .... The manuscript spoken of in the title has been written by a British sailor who lost his way after conveying convicts to Van Dieman's Land. In the novel...
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European exploration of Australia - Wikipedia - Busabout  Oct 19, 2016 ... Dutch seafarers visited the west and north coasts of the continent, as did ... coast of Australia and became the first recorded European to explore the eastern coastline. ... the Gulf of Carpentaria, believing the land was still part of New Guinea. .... He named his discovery Van Diemen's Land after Antonio van...
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Abel Janszoon Tasman - Princeton University  First Expedition (1642): Two ships (Heemskerck and Zeehaen), 110 men ... out of Amboina in the Moluccas (Spice Islands) when, in 1639, he was tapped for a ... VOC; Tasman named the territory Van Diemen's Land (today's Tasmania), after the ... Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of His Discovery of Van Diemens Land and...