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Abel Tasman - early information

Abel Janszoon Tasman (ca. 1603-1659) was a Dutch navigator who discovered Tasmania and New Zealand's South Island and charted the northwest Australian coastline.

Abel Tasman was born at Lutjegast near Groningen. After his 2nd marriage, to Joanna Tierex in 1633, he became a ship's captain in the Dutch East India Company and lived in Batavia, capital of the new Dutch commercial empire in the East Indies.

A southern continent had long been thought to exist, but Spanish navigators who crossed the Pacific Ocean from the Americas had failed to locate it. 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. The Batavian authorities soon decided to find out whether this "South Land" had any commercial potential, and in 1642, Governor General Anton Van Diemen chose Tasman to command an expedition.

Tasman left Djakarta in August 1642 with two ships, the Heemskerk of 60 tons and the Zeehaen of 100 tons, carrying 110 men and sufficient supplies for 18 months. From Mauritius he sped east on latitude 44°S, discovering Van Diemen's Land (renamed Tasmania after 1856) on November 24. After crossing the Tasman Sea, he reached the west coast of Staeten Landt (New Zealand's South Island) on December 13, and a landing party was attacked by Maoris at Golden Bay on December 18. Tasman then sailed up the west coast of New Zealand's North Island to the Tonga and Fiji islands and returned to Batavia along the northern coast of New Guinea in June 1643 after a voyage lasting 10 months.

Although Tasman circumnavigated a new continent, he seldom sailed close enough to the coastline to chart it accurately on a map. Sent to establish a base in the Tonga Islands in 1644, he failed to find a passage through Torres Strait, and instead he surveyed the northwestern coastline of New Holland (Australia) from Cape York Peninsula to Willem's River on the Tropic of Capricorn.

On his return to Batavia after a 6-months' voyage, Tasman was promoted to commander. But his superiors were disappointed. Although he had discovered more about "the remaining unknown part of the terrestrial globe" than any of his predecessors, his accounts of a barren landscape and primitive natives banished all prospects of trade and settlement. Europeans consequently displayed little interest in the colonization of New Holland for more than a century.

In 1647 Tasman led a mission to the king of Siam. His reputation subsequently suffered owing to the way in which he commanded a fleet against the Spaniards in 1648-1649. Soon afterward he left the service of the East India Company and became a merchant. He died in Batavia, a wealthy man.

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It was July 20,  1969 when Neil Armstrong spoke what must be considered the most famous words of  the 20th century,"one small step for man , one giant leap for mankind ". This , of course,was the day that men  from EARTH FIRST SET FOOT ON THE MOON.

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NEIL ARMSTRONG was born in WAPAKONETA , ohio . He was the first person who walks on the moon .

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Matthew Flinders was born in Lincolnshire in England in 1774. He joined the navy and there he trained as a navigator. Flinders wanted to become a sailor and explorer after reading the book Robinson Crusoe. He met George Bass a ship’s doctor when they were sailing to Australia on the boat called Reliance.

In 1796 they explored Sydney in a tiny boat just 2.5 metres that was called Tom Thumb. It was there that they were met by aborigines, but they soon fled away from there. In 1798, Flinders and Bass proved that Van Diemen’s Land [Tasmania] was an island, by sailing around it.

Flinder's returned to England in 1800, where he married. He sailed around Australia in The Investigator in 1802. He was the first man to circumnavigate Australia. He wrote a book about his travels called A Voyage to Terra Australis, but unfortunately he died on the day it was published in 1814. His charts were so accurate, that they were used for many years after his death.

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did u know that Charles Sturt was bor in Bengal Birbhum on April the 28 1795

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Why don't explorers use maps to find their way?

They DO use maps Kya

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Are explorers searching for ALIENS?

First, SPELLING and where is the question mark? Secondly, this is an odd but interesting question. Are aliens searching for us?

thats rig

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How do explorers find their way back home?

Do other countries have explorers?

How many explorers are there in the world

Eggscellent questions Meagan-Darsh

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how do explores go to explore new place and get foo

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how do explores go to explore new place and get foo

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From bilyl

bill, your name goes on the top then your question goes underneath O

Ned bill good question but your name goes on the the top

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How will know that other explorers will fail on their mission?

How should we know?

you mean how will explorers know.

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What do explorers use?

How do explorers get stuff from place to place?

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How did explorers travel around? They walk and ride horses or camels

How did explorers know how many food they need?

How did explorers know where to explores?

Do explorers take there own food? Of

That is my question!-Darsh

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Charles Sturt

Captain Charles Napier Sturt (28 April 1795 – 16 June 1869) was a British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of the continent, starting from both Sydney and later from Adelaide. His expeditions traced several of the westward-flowing rivers, establishing that they all merged into the Murray River. He was searching to determine if there was an "inland sea".

Sturt's home, known as "The Grange", in the Adelaide suburb of Grange is preserved as a museum.

Sturt is commemorated by:

· the City of Charles Sturt in Adelaide's north western suburbs;

· the southern Adelaide suburb of Sturt;

· the electoral Division of Sturtin Adelaide's eastern suburbs

· Charles Sturt University in regional New South Wales;

· the Sturt Highway from Wagga Wagga to Adelaide;

· Sturt's desert pea;

· Sturt's Desert Rose;

· Sturt Stony Desert;

· TS Sturt of theAustralian Navy Cadets.

· Charles Sturt lived to be 74 years of age!

· The Australian-born American actor Rod Taylor, whose middle name is Sturt, is his great-great grand-nephew.

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How do explorers know where they are going.

Ned #awesome question

nice one arshit, that was my question - CHLOE

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How explorers find new places? How do explorers get back? What things do explores need to tack?That is a nice question arshit

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How did explorers know where to go?

Maps, Compasses-Vivian.

Do the explores take there own food?

Yes explorers do take there own food and I don't know how they know where to go from Ned or Fred.

Very good question about explorers explorers go the way that hasn't been explored from Ned or Fred.

Nice questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-Meagan

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Hi, One of my wonderings are How do explorers know where they are going? Another one is,have explorers explored everywhere?What will explorers fed there camels and horses?

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Is there anywhere that hasn't been discovered? How do explores come up with the name for new contents?

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Has any explores travelled to a different planet?

good job in liked that question - harshita

Neil Armstrong has been to the moon

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how do they know how much food they need