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	ABEL JANSZOON TASMAN - LoveToKnow Article on ABEL JANSZOON TASMAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the 2nd of June 1639 Tasman, along with Matthew (Matthijs Hendricxsen) Quast, was despatched by Antony Van Diemen, governorgeneral of the Dutch East Indies (163645), on a voyage to the north-western Pacific, in quest of certain islands of gold and silver, supposed to lie in the ocean east of Japan.
		Tasman and his company believed the newly discovered land to form part of the same great antarctic continent as the other Ste-ten landi which Schouten and Lemaire had sighted and named to the east of Tierra del Fuego.
		Tasmans achievements were coldly received by the Dutch colonial authorities; but on the 4th of October 1644 they rewarded him with the rank of commander (he had frequently enjoyed the use of the title already).
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Abel Tasman
		Tasman, Abel Janszoon (1603-59), Dutch navigator, born in Lutjegast, Netherlands, near Groningen.
		Abel, in the Old Testament Book of Genesis, the second son of Adam and Eve and the brother of Cain.
		Abel, Niels Henrik (1802-29), Norwegian mathematician, who was the first to demonstrate conclusively the impossibility of solving by the elementary...
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	Abel Janszoon Tasman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abel Janszoon Tasman was born in the village of Lutjegast, in today's province of Groningen in the Netherlands, in 1603.
		The stamps from the Netherlands and New Zealand have a map of the area of New Zealand which Tasman sighted, in the vicinity of the coast between modern Hokitika and Okarito, on the west coast of the South Island.
		The map is by Frans Jacobszoon (Visscher), the Heemskerck's Pilot-Major, and presently in the State Archives in The Hague.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/tasman.htm (191 words)

	Abel Tasman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 - 1659) was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, born in Lutjegast, a village in the province of Groningen, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644, in the service of the VOC (Dutch East India Company).
		From the point of view of the VOC, Tasman's explorations were a disappointment: He had neither found a promising area for trade nor a useful new shipping route.
		A transcript of a paper on the voyages of Tasman, read to the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1895.
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	Abel Janszoon Tasman
		On the 2nd of June 1639 Tasman, along with Matthew (Matthijs Hendricxsen) Quast, was despatched by Antony Van Diemen, governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (1636-45), on a voyage to the north-western Pacific, in quest of certain "islands of gold and silver", supposed to lie in the ocean east of Japan.
		Tasman and his company believed the newly discovered land to form part of the same great antarctic continent as the other Staten landt which Schouten and Lemaire had sighted and named to the east of Tierra del Fuego.
		From there Tasman steered north and west, reaching on the 6th of February the eastern part of the Fiji archipelago, which he called Prince William's Islands and Heemskerk's Shoals; on the 22nd of March he sighted the islands of Ontong Java.
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	Abel Janszoon Tasman - New Zealand in History
		Tasman's instructions were to take possession of all continents and islands discovered and set foot on in the course of his voyage "on behalf of their High Mightinesses the States-General of the United Provinces".
		Tasman thought, but was not sure, that he may have discovered the western edge of the land discovered in the South Atlantic Ocean in 1616 by his fellow countrymen, Willem Schouten and Isaac Le Maire.
		Tasman noted that the men in the canoes "had fl hair tied together right on top of their heads, in the way and fashion the Japanese have it at the back of the head, but their hair was longer and thicker.
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	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abel Janszoon Tasman was born, probably in 1602 or 1603, at Lutjegast, near Groningen, Vriesland, The Netherlands.
		Tasman, in service with the Dutch East India Company, was first mate of the Weesp in 1634 and later that year skipper of the Mocha, patrolling in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and engaging in skirmishes with smugglers and rebels.
		Sharp, A. The voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman.
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	MSN Encarta - Abel Tasman
		He sailed on several expeditions and was chosen in 1642 by Anton van Diemen, the governor-general of the company, to lead an important voyage of exploration in the southern hemisphere.
		Tasman was to travel through the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean to investigate the possibility of a sea passage to Chile and search for Terra Australis, a legendary continent thought to exist in the then largely unexplored southern hemisphere.
		In 1644, on his second voyage, Tasman sailed into Torres Strait, reached the Gulf of Carpentaria, and followed the coast of Australia (which was then called New Holland) to about latitude 22° south.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Tasman Abel Janszoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abel Janszoon Tasman, commanding the Heemskirk and the Zeehan, sighted the western coast of Tasmania in 1642 and named it Van Diemen's Land after the...
		New Zealand was given its name by an unknown Dutch mapmaker, after the Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman became the first European to reach the...
		The beginning of post-European-contact art history in New Zealand is often dated from the landfalls of Captain James Cook in 1769, 1773, and 1777....
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	Marahau, The Abel Tasman Village - New Zealand - History of Marahau
		Ngati Tumatakokiri were in occupation at the time of Abel Tasman's visit to Golden Bay in 1642, and they were not finally displaced until the late 1790's.
		The soft-shored bays and estuaries of Abel Tasman coast are easily accessible by sea and afforded fresh water and a range of food resources.
		Tasman had charge of two ships, the Zeehaen and the Heemskerck, and made landfall off the West Coast, in the vicinity of Punakaiki, on December 13.
	www.abeltasman.net.nz /history.html (1560 words)

	Abel Janszoon Tasman
		Abel Janszoon Tasman, discoverer of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), New Zealand, the Tonga and Fiji Islands, and the first to circumnavigate Australia.
		Tasman was born at Lutjegast, Groningen in 1603.
		Tasman was dismissed from the Company's service in 1649, reinstated in 1850 but resigned from active service a year later.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /tasman.htm (580 words)

	Abel Tasman
		Tasman was not to let on the importance placed on silver and gold, should he encounter possible trading sources, and he was to treat all natives encountered in the most friendly and unintimidating manner possible.
		Tasman was not this and worked north until able to round the point Cook would later call Cape Farewell and anchoring in quieter water inside the western end of Cook's Strait.
		Tasman named this land Staaten Landt, on the belief it may be a continuation of that land originally called such by Le Maire.
	www.muffley.net /pacific/dutch/tasman.htm (2183 words)

	Tasman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tasman Sea, the body of water between Australia and New Zealand
		Tasman, New Zealand, a district around the New Zealand city of Nelson
		Abel Janszoon Tasman, the Dutch explorer after whom all of the above were named
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tasman (134 words)

	TASMAN, Abel Janszoon - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		Abel Janszoon Tasman, in an extant entry of his proposed second marriage under date 27 December 1631 in a church register of Amsterdam, is described as a seaman, aged 28, of Lutjegast.
		Tasman describes the Maoris as being of ordinary height, between brown and yellow in colour, with fl hair tied on top of their heads in a tuft adorned by a large white feather.
		Tasman, between 13 December 1642 and 6 January 1643, thus saw considerable portions of the western littorals of the South and North Islands, without making any landings.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/T/TasmanAbelJanszoon/TasmanAbelJanszoon/en (1395 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Limmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To fulfill this goal, Tasman was given the jachts Limmen (a place name) and Zeemeeuw ("Seagull," 100 tons, 41 crew) and the galiot Bracq (14 crew), to be used for inshore exploration.
		Sailing from Banda in February 1644, Tasman failed utterly—perhaps inexcusably—to find Torres Strait (as it would later be known, for the Spaniard who had first traversed it, in San Pedro in 1605).
		Although Tasman failed the VOC in the particulars, he established that the Southland was a vast landmass, and as Governor-General Anthonie Van Diemen wrote to the VOC, "That such a big country, covering different climates—i.e., that southeast at 43½ degrees S. Lat.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_055400_limmen.htm (196 words)

	Abel
		Abel is the English form of a Hebrew name either meaning “Breath” (“havel”) or “Son” (“ablu”).
		Abel, the martyred son of Adam and Eve, was common in England during the 13th century, but declined afterwards.
		Abel has never been as popular as other Biblical names, however; parents were presumably put off by the tragic fate of the Biblical Abel.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/al/abel.html (105 words)

	ABEL JANSZOON TASMAN tasman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		n the 4th December Tasman weighed anchor, intending to sail northwards along the coast and take in water; the wind, however, was unfavourable, blowing from the north - west, and being unable to hold the land aboard, the ship's council resolved to stand away to the east.
		Believing that this is the main continent of the Unknown Southland, we have given this strait the name of Abel Tasman's Passage, as he has been the first to sail through it".
		Although Tasman noted a south - east current and suspected that there must be a passage, the weather was so bad that he did not stay to look for it; if he had done so he would have sailed through COOK'S STRAIT and corrected his idea that he had found the great Southern Continent.
	www.geocities.com /heretaunga_2000/tasman.htm (1674 words)

	Tasman, Abel Janszoon -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The foremost 17th-century Dutch explorer, Abel Janszoon Tasman was the first European to reach the Australian island that was later named Tasmania in his honor.
		French director Abel Gance was involved in the post–World War I revival of French cinema and is best known for such extravagant historical spectacles as Napoleon.
		Abel headed the Soviet spy network in the United States in the 1950s.
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	Abel Tasman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tasman continued to sail around the south of Van Diemen's Land as far as Maria Island and at Prince of Wales Bay he sent the ship's carpenter to swin ashore and put up a pole so to claim ownership of the land.
		Tasman then sailed to the Friendly Islands and Fiji before returning to Batavia along the north coast of New Guinea.
		Tasman's voyage had shown clearly the size and position of the "Great South Land" but his employers were not happy with him because he had not brought back news of any gold or silver or other valuable trading goods.
	www.newmanjunior.wa.edu.au /West/tasman.htm (342 words)

	Abel Tasman Navigator
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		Sighted in 1642 by the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman, it was surveyed in 1792 by the French admiral...
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	Tasman -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is bounded by Tasman and Golden bays and Nelson city on the northeast.
		Administratively, it is bordered by Marlborough unitary authority and Canterbury local government region on the east and by West Coast local government region on the south and west.
		Established in 1942, it was named for Abel Tasman, the Dutch navigator.
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	Untitled Document
		Dutch seaman Abel Tasman, commissioned by Anthony van Diemen*, (Governor General of the Dutch East Indies), 'discovered' Tasmania in 1642, and named the island van Diemen's Land, in his honour.
		The wealth and influence of the East India Company grew from its mastery of the spice trade and the tropical 'Spice Islands' during the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Tasman wrote:- "This land being the first we have met with in the South Seas, and not known to any other European nation, we have conferred on it the name of Anthony van Diemen's Land, in honour of the Honourable Governor General, our illustrious master, who sent us to make this discovery".
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	Timeframes - Information on PUBL-0086-021 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Golden Bay in December 1642, during the visit of Abel Tasman.
		A canoe of Maori men in the foreground, and two views of Tasman's ships, the Heemskerck and the Zeehaen (both flying the Dutch flag), sailing away in the left foreground, and surrounded by canoes and firing their canon in the middle distance.
		A rowboat (the cockboat of the Zeehaen) is between the two ships, with its occupants being attacked in the centre.
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	Abel Tasman - Simple English Wikipedia
		Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 - 1659) was a Dutch sea explorer.
		On voyages in 1642 and 1644, in the service of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) he discovered Tasmania and New Zealand.
		Several places have been named after him, including Tasmania and the Tasman Sea
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abel_Tasman (135 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Tasman lands in Van Dieman's Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Dutch mariner and explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman (?1603-1659) undertook between 1633 and 1649 numerous trading and military voyages for the Dutch East India Company.
		As Fitzgerald pointed out in his notes to “Heemskerck Shoals”, when the yacht Heemskerck and the flute Zeehaen set out from Batavia on their voyage of 1642, the Dutch were already well aware of the existence of New Holland (Australia), though not of its extent.
		It portrays a Tasman whose adventurous spirit and thirst for knowledge make him chafe at the bureaucratic restrictions laid upon him by the company in Batavia, which was only keen on fabulous riches:
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	explorer tasman - is about
		Abel Tasman (1603-1659), VOC, explorer Tasmania and NewZealand, geboren in Lutjegast (NL).
		Het Abel Tasman Kabinet is present op de...
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	Abel Janszoon Tasman Biography / Biography of Abel Janszoon Tasman Main Biography
		Abel Tasman was born at Lutjegast near Groningen.
		After 1611 Dutch vessels which were blown east by the "roaring forties" after rounding the Cape of Good Hope occasionally touched the coastline of "Terra Australis" en route to Java.
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