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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cape Maria van Diemen
		Van Diemen's most brilliant achievements were his successful struggle against the Portuguese in Ceylon and Malacca, the signing of advantageous treaties with Acheh in northern Sumatra and with Ternate and Tidore in the Moluccas, particularly in connection with the spice trade, and the establishment of trade relations with China, Japan, and Tonkin.
		Anthony van Diemen (1593–1645), or Antonius, Dutch colonial governor, was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands, the son of Bartholomeus van Diemen and Elisabeth Hoevenaar.
		The north-western extremities of Aupori Peninsula are Cape Maria van Diemen and Cape Reinga.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cape-Maria-van-Diemen (360 words)

	Anthony van Diemen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Anthony van Diemen (1593-1645), or Antonius, Dutch colonial governor, was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands, the son of Bartholomeus van Diemen and Elisabeth Hoevenaar.
		Van Diemen is best remembered for his efforts to foster exploration of the land to the south, Australia.
		The name Van Diemen's Land acquired such odium that when it became a self-governing colony in 1855 one of the first acts of the new legislature was to change its name to Tasmania.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/anthony_van_diemen (453 words)

	Abel Tasman Summary
		Anthony van Diemen (1593-1645), as governor-general at Batavia in Dutch East Indies, was intent on the exploration of the Southern Hemisphere in order to expand commerce and accumulate wealth.
		Van Diemen was not especially pleased with the results of the voyage since no new trade routes or sources of wealth had been discovered.
		It was plain that van Diemen was dissatisfied with Tasman.
	www.bookrags.com /Abel_Tasman (3760 words)

	Van Diemen's Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by Europeans for Tasmania, an island state of Australia.
		From the 1830s to the abolition of transportation in 1853, Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia.
		Convicts earning their pardon or ticket-of-leave often promptly left Van Diemen's Land to settle in the new free colony of Victoria to the disgust of the free settlers in towns such as Melbourne.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Van_Diemen's_Land (407 words)

	Van Diemen's Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Van Diemen's Land is the name originally used by the British for Tasmania, an island state of Australia.
		It was named Anthoonij van Diemenslandt in honor of Anthony van Diemen, Governor General of India for the Dutch East India Company, who sent Abel Tasman out on his voyage of discovery in 1642.
		It was changed in 1856 to honour Tasman himself, the first European to discover the island, and possibly also to remove the association with the severe penal colony that the original name evoked.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Van_Diemen%27s_Land (147 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in the Australian folk song "The Wild Colonial Boy".
		Van Diemen's Land is the setting of Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan (published 2002), which tells the story of a man who is transported to the island, and runs afoul of the local (and rather insane) authorities.
		Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in Umberto Eco's novel "The Island of the Day Before" ("L'isola del giorno prima", 1994), a story about a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped at an island at the International Date Line.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Van_Diemens_Land (1045 words)

	van Lelyveld
		Portretten van Sara en Rudolf in NP 8 (1917) tussen pp.
		Willem van Lelyveld van Cingelshoek en Anna Maria van den Heuvel.
		Leiden 17.10.1786 Cipriana Anna Margaretha van Royen, Cypriana, geb.
	www.hjmwijers.nl /le-02.htm (671 words)

	Van Diemen's Land - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Van Diemen's Land is also referenced in Emily Dickinson's poem, "If you were coming in the fall"
		The Van Diemen's Land edition of the Pickwick Papers: A general and bibliographical study with some notes on Henry Dowling,
		The Presbyterian pioneers of Van Diemen's Land: A contribution to the ecclesiastical history of Tasmania
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /van_diemen's_land.htm (282 words)

	Chronologie van Nederlands Indië en Indonesië
		Anthonie van Diemen veroverde Malakka op de Portugezen na een beleg van vijf maanden.
		Het verlies van suikerleverancier Formosa was gunstig voor de ontwikkeling en groei van de suikerindustrie in de ommelanden van Batavia.
		Rijcklof van Goens werd benoemd tot gouverneur-generaal.~~~ In ruil voor militaire hulp van de VOC beloofde Amangkurat II de VOC de tolgelden van havenstad Semarang in pacht te zullen geven.
	www.studybuddy.nl /nederlands/contentindo1.html (2900 words)

	Anthony van Diemen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Van Diemen is best remembered for his efforts to foster exploration of the land to the south, (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) Australia.
		Visscher mapped out three different routes and van Diemen decided in August 1642 to send (Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659)) Abel Janszoon Tasman in search of the Great South Land.
		The name Van Diemen's Land acquired such odium that when it became a (Click link for more info and facts about self-governing colony) self-governing colony in 1855 one of the first acts of the new legislature was to change its name to (An Australian state on the island of Tasmania) Tasmania.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anthony_van_diemen.htm (516 words)

	Read about Anthony van Diemen at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Anthony van Diemen and learn about Anthony van ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Netherlands, the son of Bartholomeus van Diemen and Elisabeth Hoevenaar.
		Van Diemen is best remembered for his efforts to foster exploration of the land to the south,
		Van Diemen's Land in honour of his patron.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Anthony_van_Diemen (417 words)

	Van Diemen's Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was changed in 1856 to honour Tasman himself the first European to discover the island and possibly to remove the association with the severe penal colony that the original name evoked.
		Van Diemen's Land is the title of the second from the rock band U2 's album Rattle and Hum.
		A narrative of a voyage to New Holland and Van Diemen's Land: A facsimile extract from a narrative of voyages and travels in the Northern and Southern...
	www.freeglossary.com /Van_Diemen's_Land (268 words)

	Anthony Van Diemen
		Antonio van Diemen was born in 1593 at Culemborg, Holland, the son of Bartholomeus van Diemen and Elisabeth Hoevenaar.
		Before leaving the colony, Coen promoted van Diemen under his own name and by 1626 van Diemen was again promoted, this time he became Director General of Commerce and member of the Council for Indie.
		It was van Diemen who devoted most of his energy to expanding the power of the Dutch and particularly that of the VOC.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /vandiemen.htm (422 words)

	Anthony van Diemen - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Visscher mapped out three different routes and van Diemen decided in August 1642 to send Abel Janszoon Tasman in search of the Great South Land.
		But the old name lingered for many years—Tasmanians were referred to as Vandemonians until the turn of the century.
		Her name is perpetuated in the name of the northernmost tip of New Zealand, Cape Maria van Diemen, named by Tasman in 1643.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Anthony_van_Diemen (408 words)

	Catatan Jay adalah Yulian » Van Diemen’s Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Van Diemen’s Land adalah nama lain dari pulau Tasmania.
		Anthony van Diemen pernah bekerja di Batavia sebagai Direktur Jenderal urusan komersial pada tahun 1626 di bawah Gubernur Jenderal Jan Pieterszoon Coen (Yepekun) menguasai perdagangan di kota yang menjadi Jakarta sekarang.
		Diemen sendiri adalah nama kota kecil di pinggiran Amsterdam.
	yulian.firdaus.or.id /2004/11/24/van-diemens-land (299 words)

	Abel Tasman's Two Voyages 1642 and 1644.
		Anthony van Diemen was Governor at Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, later called Java, now Indonesia.
		Van Diemen directed his sailors to make a study of the coast of New Holland (as Australia was called).
		Van Diemen was keen to have his plans carried out.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/17035/95082 (479 words)

	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.
		Two hundred years later, the name was changed to Tasmania, in recognition of the explorer, rather than the administrator.
		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".
	www.diemenpepper.com /vandiemen.html (153 words)

	A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook
		Then Worshipful Van der Stel informs us that he has got positive orders from the Honourable Governor-General and Councillors of India not to serve out more than one small glass of arrack to each of his men, and this only to such as are cold, wet and dirty.
		Towards noon the Honourable Van der Stel and Tasman convened on board the admiral the councils of the Fortress of Frederick Hendrik of the ships Heemskerk and Zeehaan and of the Yacht Arent, and submitted to the Council what was next resolved upon, as may be seen from this day's resolution.
		Van der Maerzen, subcargo and second in command in the fortress of Fredrick Hendrick; we returned on board towards noon with 13 wild birds.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /ebooks04/0400771h.html (14439 words)

	Read about Van Diemen's Land at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Van Diemen's Land and learn about Van Diemen's Land ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Van Diemen's Land is the name originally used by the British for Tasmania, an island state of
		Anthony van Diemen, Governor-General of India for the
		European to discover the island, and possibly also to remove the association with the severe penal colony that the original name evoked.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Van_Diemen%27s_Land (165 words)

	van diemen's land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Van Diemen’s Land became one of the other places to send convicts.
		U2’s song Van Diemen’s Land “is sung from the point of view of an Irish poet who spoke out against the British government and was going to be exiled to Tasmania”; (Steverud).
		Van Diemen’s Land became its own separate colony in 1825 when New South Whales stopped governing the settlement.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~jmooney/3044annotationsp-z/vandiemensland.html (375 words)

	Van Diemen Seafoods International - Live seafood suppliers operating in Canada, Dubai, Kenya & Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Van Diemen Seafoods Group was incorporated in the year 1998 with a holding company based in the Isle of Man.
		The philosophy behind Van Diemen Seafoods was and is to be the world-leading wholesale provider of live crustaceans and shellfish as well as other live seafood products and high-valued processed fish products.
		Van Diemen Seafoods was named after Anthony Van Diemen, one of the former governors of current Indonesia and the initiator behind the discovery by Abel Tasman of Van Diemen's land.
	www.vandiemenseafoods.com /about.ihtml (509 words)

	HELP ME, IMPORTANT!!!: Van Diemen's Land
		Van Dieman's Land, now Tasmania, was the furthest place Britain could send her most undesirable convicts.
		However, the entry on "transportation" reports that transportation to Van Diemen's Land occurred between 1803 and 1868 when transportation was abolished.
		This song was proabably of the class of broadsides quietly encouraged by the Government to depict life in the convict settlements as babdly as possible - to counter rumours filtering back to Britain of convicts that served their time and then did well in the new country.
	www.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?threadid=18490 (7340 words)

	Australian History/Early Explorers - Wikibooks
		He named it Van Diemen's Land, after Anthony van Diemen, the Dutch East India Company's Governor General at Batavia, who had commissioned his voyage.
		Tasman claimed Van Diemen's Land for the Netherlands.
		The discovery that sailing east from the Cape of Good Hope until land was sighted, and then sailing north along the west coast of Australia was a much quicker route than around the coast of the Indian Ocean made Dutch landfalls on the west coast inevitable.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Australian_History:Early_Explorers (914 words)

	Tasmania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The first European to visit Tasmania, on 24 November 1642, was Dutch navigator Abel Tasman, who named the island Van Diemen's Land, after the governor general of the Dutch East Indies, Anthony van Diemen.
		Conditions for prisoners were notoriously harsh, particularly at Port Arthur, a penal settlement on the south coast, founded in 1830 to house convicts who had committed serious crimes while imprisoned on the mainland or elsewhere on Van Diemen's Land.
		In 1825 the island, which had previously formed part of New South Wales, became a separate colony, and in 1856 the name of Van Diemen's Land was officially changed to Tasmania and responsible government granted.
	tiscali-b2b.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0012973.html (464 words)

	The Rse and Fall of The Kingdom of Mrohoung in Arakan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Van der Mandere's conduct was considered undignified by Governor-General Anthony van Diemen and his books were found to have been carelessly kept.
		He was accordingly transferred elsewhere, and van Diemen directed that in future 'men of good bearing and not slovens' should be appointed to Mrohaung.
		The next Chief, Arent Jansen van den Helm, got on extremely well with the usurper Narapatigri as a result of lavish presents of wine and spirits, which the latter much appreciated.
	arakan.homestead.com /files/Articles/The_Rise_and_Fall.htm (5282 words)

	Anthony Van Diemen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Anthony Taylor, crowned Sahara SA Production Car champion, celebrated by taking...
		Anthony Taylor may have wrapped up both the South African Production Car...
		Jerold Promes, Ruud Berger, Cerezo Fung-a-Wing and Anthony Fabri are also sidelined with injuries while Patrick van Diemen is suspended.
	www.wikiverse.org /anthony-van-diemen (461 words)

	Penny Magazine - 001
		In addition to a Calendar and the ordinary lists, we have here a body of information respecting the past, and especially the present state of the country, embracing almost every particular with which either a person intending to emigrate, or the general reader, can desire to be acquainted.
		Van Diemen's Land was discovered so long ago as the year 1642, by the Dutch navigator Tasman, who gave it the name which it still bears, in honour of his employer Anthony Van Diemen, the then governor of the Dutch possessions in India.
		Hitherto the only places with which Van Diemen's Land was allowed to hold any communication, had been New South Wales and England: that restriction was now done away with, and the two colonies were placed, in respect to foreign commerce, on precisely the same footing.
	www.history.rochester.edu /pennymag/001/vdl.htm (1041 words)

	Zijn Reis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Abel Tasman noemde dit land naar zijn superieur, Anthony van Diemen's land.
		Een sloep werd van de Heemskerck naar de Zeehean gestuurd om te zeggen niemand aan boord te laten.
		Toen de sloep terugkeerde ramde het een van de kanoes en de zeemannen werden aangevallen met paddels en 'korte dikke stukken hout'.
	users.pandora.be /bsgo.tervuren/Benneke/zijn_reis.htm (404 words)

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