Helen Margaret Wallis
Contributor
Map Librarian, British Library, London, 1967β86. Editor of Carteret's Voyage Round the World and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
Abel Tasman was the greatest of the Dutch navigators and explorers, who was the first European to sight Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, and the Fiji Islands. On his first voyage (1642β43) in the service of the Dutch East India Company, Tasman explored the Indian Ocean, Australasia, and the southernβ¦
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