Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman repors on November 24 1642, the sighting the Island of Tasmania, becoming the first European to do so. He named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, after the Governor of the Dutch East Indies. In 1856 it was renamed Tasmania in honor of Abel Tasman. More
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