Abel Tasman
Abel Tasman
1824
Tasmania or back then it was known as Van Diemens Land.
Tasmania
Van Diemen's land (now Tasmania) was first circumnavigated by sea explorers George Bass and Matthew Flinders.
Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first known European to visit Tasmania. He named it after the Governor of Batavia, Antony Van Diemen.
If you had visited the frontier, you would have been on settled land by the American Indians.
The land of the Houyhnhnms, inhabited by intelligent horses, is not visited in Gulliver's Travels by Lemuel Gulliver.
Van Diemen's Land was established as a colony in 1803, but continued to be administered by the Governor of New South Wales. In June 1825, Van Diemen's Land was separated administratively from New South Wales, and Hobart Town was declared the capital of the colony.
Luna 2 and Ranger 4 both smashed into it while Apollo 11 was the first to land with people.
Abel Tasman first visited Australia in 1642. This is when he discovered and named Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, Australia's island state.
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