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Abel Tasman was a Dutch explorer employed by the Dutch East India Company to find the mythical "Southern Continent" or Terra Australis, a gigantic land mass expected to cover 1/5th of the world, which was assumed to be required to keep the Earth in balance.
Source: Te Ara — The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
part of a series of thirteen stamps issued by the New Zealand Post Office for the centennial of New Zealand in 1940
Source: Tasman 375 Project
- Abel Janszoon TASMAN (c.1603-1659)
- English Translation of Tasman's handwritten Journal
- The Journal of Abel Jansz Tasman
- Abel Tasman
- Dutch East India Company
- European exploration of Australia
- Roaring Forties
- Terra Australis
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