Editing Abel Tasman (section)

==Legacy==
Tasman's ten-month voyage in 1642–43 had significant consequences. By circumnavigating Australia (albeit at a distance) Tasman proved that the small fifth continent was not joined to any larger sixth continent, such as the long-imagined Southern Continent. Further, Tasman's suggestion that New Zealand was the western side of that Southern Continent was seized upon by many European cartographers who, for the next century, depicted New Zealand as the west coast of a ''Terra Australis'' rising gradually from the waters around [[Tierra del Fuego]].{{cn|date=February 2025}} This theory was eventually disproved when Captain Cook circumnavigated New Zealand in 1769.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cameron-Ash |first1=M. |title=Lying for the Admiralty |date=2018 |publisher=Rosenberg |isbn=9780648043966 |pages=21–22}}</ref>

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[[File:AbelTasmanNP.jpg|thumb|[[Abel Tasman National Park]]]]
Multiple places have been named after Tasman, including:
*The Australian island and state of [[Tasmania]], renamed after him, formerly Van Diemen's land. It includes features such as:
**The [[Tasman Peninsula]].
**The [[Tasman Bridge]].
**The [[Tasman Highway]].
*The [[Tasman Sea]].
*In New Zealand:
**The [[Tasman Glacier]].
**[[Tasman Lake]].
**The [[Tasman River]].
**[[Mount Tasman]].
**The [[Abel Tasman National Park]].
**[[Tasman Bay]].
**The [[Tasman, New Zealand|Tasman District]].
**[[Abel Tasman Monument]].
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Animal and plant species:
*Indirectly via Tasmania
** The [[Tasmanian Devil]]
** The [[Thylacine|Tasmanian Tiger]]
** [[Tasmannia]] (Tasmanian pepper and relatives)
** The [[Tasman flaxlily]]
*Indirectly via the Tasman Sea
** The [[Tasman Booby]]
** Two species named [[Tasman Parakeet]]s
** The [[Tasman Starling]]
** The [[Tasman whale]]-->

Also named after Tasman are:
*Tasman Pulp and Paper company, a large pulp and paper producer in [[Kawerau]], New Zealand.
*Abel Tasman Drive, in [[Tākaka]].
*The former passenger/vehicle ferry ''[[Abel Tasman (ship)|Abel Tasman]].''
*The [[Able Tasmans]] – an [[indie band]] from Auckland, New Zealand.
*[[Tasman (layout engine)|Tasman]], a [[Browser engine|layout engine]] for [[Internet Explorer]].
* [[6594 Tasman]] (1987 MM1), a main-belt asteroid.
* Tasman Drive in [[San Jose, California]], and its [[Tasman (VTA)|Tasman]] light rail station, named after the [[Tasman Sea]].
* Tasman Road in [[Claremont, Cape Town]], South Africa.
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* The [[Tasman Rugby Union]] and [[Tasman rugby league team]]
* the [[Tasman Series]], a motor racing series between Australia and New Zealand -->
* HMNZS Tasman, shore-based training establishment of the [[Royal New Zealand Navy]].
* [[Hunter-class frigate|HMAS ''Tasman'']] is a [[Hunter-class frigate]] that is expected to enter service with the [[Royal Australian Navy]] in the late 2020s.

His portrait has been on four New Zealand postage stamp issues, on a 1992 5 [[NZD]] coin, and on 1963, 1966<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stamporama Discussions: 1963 4/- & 1966 40 cent Tasman and his ship the "Heemskerk"|url=https://stamporama.com/discboard/disc_main.php?action=20&id=15080|access-date=2023-02-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221045429/https://stamporama.com/discboard/disc_main.php?action=20&id=15080 |archive-date=21 December 2019|website=stamporama.com}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=July 2023}} and 1985 Australian postage stamps.<ref name="australianstamp">{{cite web|url=http://www.australianstamp.com/images/large/0015370.jpg|title=Image: 0015370.jpg, (378 × 378 px)|publisher=australianstamp.com|access-date=31 August 2015|archive-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923180415/http://www.australianstamp.com/images/large/0015370.jpg|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the Netherlands, many streets are named after him. In Lutjegast, the village where he was born, there is a museum dedicated to his life and travels.

Tasman's life was dramatised for radio in ''[[Early in the Morning (radio play)|Early in the Morning]]'' (1946) a play by [[Ruth Park]].

===Portraits and depictions===
[[File:Portrait of Abel Tasman, his wife and daughter (adjusted).jpg|thumb|right|Portrait of disputed provenance held by the National Library of Australia, purported to depict Tasman and his family ]]
A drawing titled ''Abel Janssen Tasman, Navigateur en Australie'' is held by the [[State Library of New South Wales]] as part of "a portfolio of 26 ink drawings of 16th and 17th century Dutch admirals, navigators and governor-generals of the VOC".{{sfn|Mack|2019|p=47}} The portfolio was acquired at an art auction in [[The Hague]] in 1862.{{sfn|Mack|2019|p=48}} However, it is unclear if the drawing is of Tasman and its original source is unknown, although it has been said to resemble the work of Dutch engraver [[Jacobus Houbraken]].{{sfn|Mack|2019|p=49}} The drawing has been assessed as having the "most reliable provenance" of any depiction of Tasman with "no strong reason to doubt that the drawing is not genuine".{{sfn|Mack|2019|p=61}}

In 1948, the [[National Library of Australia]] acquired from [[Rex Nan Kivell]] a portrait purporting to depict Tasman with his wife and stepdaughter, which was attributed to [[Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp]] and dated to 1637.{{sfn|Mack|2019|p=58}} In 2018 the painting was exhibited by the [[Groninger Museum]] in the Netherlands which identified it as "the only known portrait of the explorer".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.groningermuseum.nl/en/art/exhibitions/portrait-abel-tasman-comes-home-groningen|title=Portrait of Abel Tasman in Groningen|publisher=Groninger Museum|access-date=1 August 2024}}</ref> However, the [[Netherlands Institute for Art History]] has instead attributed the painting to [[Dirck van Santvoort]] and concluded that the painting does not depict Tasman and his family.{{sfn|Mack|2019|p=61}}

The [[provenance]] provided from Nan Kivell for the family portrait has been unable to be verified. Nan Kivell claimed that the portrait was passed down through the Springer family – relatives of Tasman's widow – and was sold at [[Christie's]] in 1877. However, Christie's records indicate that the portrait was not owned by the Springer family or associated with Tasman, and was instead sold as "Portrait of an astronomer" by "[[Anthonie Palamedesz.|Anthonie Palamedes]]" [sic].{{sfn|Mack|2019|p=58}} Nan Kivell additionally claimed that the portrait was sold at Christie's a second time in 1941, however no records exist to support this. A survey of portraits of Tasman published in 2019 concluded that the provenance was "either invented by Rex Nan Kivell or by the unnamed art dealer who sold it to Rex Nan Kivell", and that the painting "should therefore not be considered a portrait of Abel Tasman's family".{{sfn|Mack|2019|pp=59–60}}

Outside of the Nan Kivell painting, another purported portrait of Tasman was "discovered" in 1893 and eventually acquired by the Tasmanian government in 1976 for the [[Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery]] (TMAG).{{sfn|Mack|2019|pp=53–55}} The painting is unsigned and was attributed to [[Bartholomeus van der Helst]] at the time of its discovery, but this attribution was disputed by Dutch art historian [[Cornelis Hofstede de Groot]] and Alec Martin of Christie's. In 1985, TMAG curator Dan Gregg stated that "the painter of the life-sized portrait is unknown [...] there is some uncertainty as to whether the portrait is really of Tasman".{{sfn|Mack|2019|p=56}}