Abel Tasman Summary

The Voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman Overview It was a long-held belief prior to the seventeenth century that there existed a huge continent in the Southern Hemisphere that would balance the large cont... Read more

Abel Tasman Born 1603, Groningen, Holland Died 1659, Batavia, Indonesia As a navigator for the Dutch East India Company, Abel Janszoon Tasman made his most famous voyage to the South Pacific, where ... Read more

Abel Janszoon Tasman (ca. 1603-1659) was a Dutch navigator who discovered Tasmania and New Zealand's South Island and charted the northwest Australian coastline.Abel Tasman was born at Lutjegast near ... Read more