Tasmania
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Tasmania is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 kilometres to the south of the Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Ta
Tasmania from space
Tessellated pavement, a rare rock formation on the Tasman Peninsula
1807 engraving by French explorer Charles Alexandre Lesueur shows seafaring Aboriginal people and a large canoe on the eastern shore of Schouten Island.
Tasmania is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, the first European to sight the island, in 1642.
Abel Tasman
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Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company. He was the first European to reach New Zealand, whic
Tasmania
…protected in some form of reserve. The first environmental political party in the world was founded in Tasmania. Tasmania is 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 van Diemen's Land after his sponsor…
Coastal drawings of Tasmania, Huijdecoper journal of Abel Tasman, Hessel Gerritsz, 1642
Coastal cliffs of Tasman Peninsula
Chart, NE coast of the South Island, New Zealand, Huijdecoper journal of Abel Tasman, Hessel Gerritsz, 1643