Executive summary: Discovered Tasmania and New Zealand. The greatest of Dutch navigators, the discoverer of Tasmania, New Zealand, the Tonga and the Fiji Islands, and the first circumnavigator of Australia, was born at Lutjegast in Groningen, about 1603.In 1634 we first meet with him in the East Indies, sailing from Batavia (February 18) to Amboyna.rom there Tasman steered north and west, reaching on the 6th of February the eastern part of the Fiji archipelago, which he called Prince William's Islands and Heemskerk's Shoals; on the 22nd of March he sighted the islands of Ontong Java.
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