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Definition of Abel Janszoon Tasman
1. Noun. Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abel Janszoon Tasman
Literary usage of Abel Janszoon Tasman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute by James Rufus Boosé (1901)
"Abel Janszoon Tasman. His Life and Voyages. By James Backhouse Walker. Charts.
RST 1894-95 Abel Janszoon Tasman'S Journal of his Discovery of Van Diemen's ..."
2. Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and by Robert Logan Jack (1921)
"It was reproduced by JACOB SWART in his Journaal van de Reis nar het Onbekende
Zuidland in den Jare 1642 door Abel Janszoon Tasman (Amsterdam, 1860), ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In 1642 Abel Janszoon Tasman sailed on a voyage of discovery from Batavia, the
headquarters of the governor and council of the Dutch East Indies, ..."
4. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde (1887)
"Abel Janszoon Tasman. DOOR MR. CH. M. DOZY. Het is een vaak herhaalde klacht dat
wij veelal in volslagen onkunde verkeeren omtrent de levensgeschiedenis der ..."
5. New Zealand by Peter Hinze (1998)
"On this day, the Dutch seafarer, Abel Janszoon Tasman, came upon a new land after
a strenuous journey through the Pacific. ..."
6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"By the Ven. Archdeacon Sinclair, DD With Portrait. Taiman. Walker. Abel Janszoon
Tasman : his Life and Voyages. ..."
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