On this day, 380 years ago, specifically November 24, 1642 AD, Apple Tasman became the first European to discover the island of Van Deman, which was later called Tasmania.
“Tasman” is a navigator who is the greatest among the Dutch navigators, and it is a Tasmania discovery (which was named after his name), New Zealand, Tonga Figi Islands, and the first to sail around Australia was born in Litigast in Khruninjel, the Netherlands, about 1603.
He carried out many trips around the world, including the East Indies, the discovery of the Australian continent, the northeast, and other trips that led to its discovery of the islands and countries.
Anthony Van Deman, who was the Dutch ruler of the Dutch East Indian Islands, traveled to Tasman in 1642 AD to take an exploratory trip in which he revolves around the bottom of the Australian continent, and put a detailed map for her, and he discovered the island called today Tasmania, and it was then called “Van Dienman” and Tasman also discovered New Zealand And some of the group islands called Frandley Islands.
The travelers left Tasman, the land of Van Deman on December 5, and left the east to the Solomon Islands, and on December 13 he discovered “high mountainous countries” called by Statin Lanc or “land of the states” of the Dutch, which is now New Zealand.
Tasman and his men believed that the newly discovered land formed part of the great polar continent and was anchored on December 18 at a wide entrance, which he thought was a thin bay (and it was the Cook Strait), and he gave him the name Mordenaars (or the killers and later called the Gulf of the massacre), where he killed several of his men By the indigenous population..
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