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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Annette Alafaci updated 2024-10-23 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000821b.htm person Tasman Abel Janszoon AACR2 1603? 10 October 1659 Place of Birth Lutjegast, Netherlands Place of Death Batavia, Indonesia Explorer Mariner Abel Tasman was a Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant with the Dutch East India Company. Tasman was one of the first Europeans to explore the south-east coast of Australia.

While officially the first European to circumnavigate Australia, he misinterpreted some of the geography he charted, he didn't realise Tasmania was an Island and mistook the Cook Strait for a bay. He returned to Batavia (now known as Indonesia) and the man who sent him on the expedition, Governor-General Anthony van Diemen, in 1643. His 1642 - 1643 expedition had taken him from Batavia (Djakarta, Indonesia) to Mauritius, Van Diemen's land (Tasmania), Staten Land (New Zealand) and back to Batavia via the Friendship Islands (including those islands now known as Tonga and the Solomon Islands) and New Guinea.

His second major expedition (1644) was part of a Dutch plan to establish a settlement in the Tonga Islands allowing the Dutch East India Company to raid the Chilean coast. Between his return to Batavia in 1644 and death in 1659 Tasman went on a expedition to Thailand and the Philippines before being dismissed from his post for misconduct (1649), reinstated (1651), retiring (1653) and becoming a independent merchant in Batavia.

1634 c. 1634 Career event - Capitan, Expedition to Seram on a ship named the 'Mocha', Dutch East India Company 1639 1639 Career event - Participant, Exploration of Bonin Island under Commander Mathjjis Hendrickszoon Quast 1639 1641 Career position - Mercantile Commander, Dutch East India Company 14 August 1642 18 May 1643 Career event - Leader, Expedition to explore Terra Australis Incognita 1644 1644 Career event - Leader, Expedition to explore New Guinea 1647 c. 1653 Career position - Commander, Trading Fleet to Thailand, Dutch East India Company 1653 1653 Career event - Retired Australian Joint Copying Project, National Library of Australia; and State Library of New South Wales (1945 - 1993)

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 Tasman, Abel Janszoon (1603-1659)

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