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Baptized 30 October 1580
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Abel Tasman was born in 1603 in Lutjegast in what is now the province of Groningen, the Netherlands
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On 18 November 1605, the Duyfken sailed from Bantam to the coast of western New Guinea.
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The British found out 158 years later. The boats have two names. He spent two months mapping.
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Janszoon sailed from the Netherlands for the East Indies for the third time on 18 December 1603 On 26 February 1606, he made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland.
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He was searching for gold. There was conflict.
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He was going to spice Island.
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On 25 October 1616 he was the second recorded European expedition to land on the Australian continent
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buried 11 October 1621
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In 1633, Tasman went to Batavia in service of the VOC; four years later he was back in Amsterdam.
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Started coming in the 1640's. They came to fish for sea cucumbers.
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He sailed in 2 ships called Heemskerk and Zeehan. Didn't see Aboriginals but heard music.
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On 24 November 1642 Abel Tasman sighted the west coast of Tasmania, north of Macquarie Harbour. He named his discovery Van Diemen's Land after Antonio van Diemen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
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William Dampier was baptised 5 September 1651
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Dampier transferred to Captain Charles Swan's ship, the privateer Cygnet, and on 31 March 1686 they set out across the Pacific to raid the East Indies, calling at Guam and Mindanao.
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On 5 January 1688 Cygnet was beached on the northwest coast of Australia, near King Sound. While the ship was being careened Dampier made notes on the fauna and flora and the indigenous peoples he found there.
