Hotels Elms and Bardin, New City, NY Courtesy of the Historical Society of Rockland County, New City, NY. Throughout its history New City's primary business has been as a home to governments of Rockland County and the town of Clarkstown.
First Pacific voyage. Abel Tasman was born in 1603 in Lutjegast in what is now the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 1633, Tasman went to Batavia in service of the VOC; four years later he was back in Amsterdam.Tasman signed on for another ten years and took his wife along to Batavia.n 1639 Tasman was sent as second in command of an exploring expedition in the north Pacific under Matthijs Quast. His fleet included the ships Engel and Gracht and reached Fort Zeelandia (Dutch Formosa) and Deshima.
Tasmania (/taezËmeÉªniÉ/ ; tÃ¦zËmeÉªniÉ abbreviated As tas and known colloquially As) tassie is an island state that is part of The commonwealth Of. Australia it is located 240 (km 150) mi to the south of The australian, mainland separated By Bass. straithe state is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642. Tasman named the island Anthony van Diemen's Land after his sponsor Anthony van Diemen, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies.