Van Diemen's Land
Meanings
name
- The former name (until 1856) of the then-British colony and current state of Australia now known as Tasmania.
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Etymology
After the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies Anthony van Diemen, who sent Abel Tasman on the voyage on which Tasman discovered the island.
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