{"id":109464,"date":"2017-12-09T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:52:41","slug":"first-european-landing-on-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/first-european-landing-on-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"First European landing on New Zealand, 1642"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Born in 1603 in the Dutch province of Groningen, Abel Tasman entered the service of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). By the mid-1630s Tasman was serving as a mate on a trading ship out of Batavia (modern day Jakarta). In 1634 he became master of the Mocha<\/span>, a small trading ship, and served as second in command on a mission of exploration of the North Pacific.<\/p>\n

After a series of journeys to various locations on the Pacific coast of Asia, Tasman commanded a fleet sent to search for the “Unknown Southland and Eastland” believed to be in the South Atlantic. In August 1642 he set sail for Mauritius where he turned south-east for then little known Australia. In November he sighted the island that now bears his name, which he claimed for the Netherlands on 3rd December.<\/p>\n

Tasman intended to turn north to explore the east coast of Australia, but strong winds took the fleet on an easterly heading. On 13th December the explorers sighted land: the north-west coast of the Southern Island of what is now known as New Zealand. While exploring the coast, the fleet had a number of encounters with the Maori including an attack on one of the Dutch ships, which goes some way to explaining why the fleet only made a brief landing on the 18th December.<\/p>\n

The fleet continued to explore the islands before returning to Batavia via the Tongan and the Fiji islands. Tasman made another voyage of discovery in 1644 before becoming a senior official in Batavia. He continued to serve there until his death in October 1659, apart from a period of suspension as a result of him passing a death sentence on a man without trial.<\/p>\n

Abel Janszoon Tasman’s Journal of his Discovery of Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand in 1642<\/span><\/a> is available on the Project Gutenberg Australia site.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born in 1603 in the Dutch province of Groningen, Abel Tasman entered the service of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). By the mid-1630s Tasman was serving as a mate on a trading ship out of Batavia (modern day Jakarta). In 1634 he became master of the Mocha, a small trading ship, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t