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Tasman’s first voyage
By the way… Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman joined the
One day, lots of places Dutch East India Company in 1633. In
will be named after me,
including Tasmania and 1642, the company sent him to explore
the Tasman Sea. “Beach,” a mysterious place on maps that
was thought to be part of the Terra
Australis. Tasman sighted Tasmania on
November 24. He named it Van Diemen’s
Land after the Governor-General of the
Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia).
Then winds blew him off course to New
Zealand, where Maori warriors in canoes
ATTACKED ONE OF HIS BOATS.

Tasman commanded
two ships on his first
voyage: the Heemskerck Tasman’s map
and the Zeehaen. of New Holland Map man

(Australia)
In 1644, Tasman set out
again. He mapped the
north coast of what he
called New Holland
(Australia). The east coast
remained largely unknown
How it changed
Tasman paved the way
for more than a century,
for a new continent
when British explorer
being opened up to
James Cook CLAIMED
European settlement.
THE CONTINENT
Sadly, colonization led
for Britain in 1770.
to the destruction of the
indigenous peoples’
ways of life.
the world
What came after…

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
From 1789, PRISON SHIPS claimed independence from
carried criminals to Britain in 1901 and 1907
Australia from Britain respectively, but they still
to live out their lives have the British Queen as
in penal colonies. their head of state.
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