Abel Janszoon Tasman,1603 – 1659. Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, he was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand. From The Martyrs of Tolpuddle, published 1934.

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