Editing Abel Tasman (section)

====Tasmania====
[[File:Coastal-cliffs Tasman-peninsula.jpg|thumb|Coastal cliffs of [[Tasman Peninsula]]]]

On 24 November 1642, Tasman reached and sighted the west coast of [[Tasmania]], north of [[Macquarie Harbour]].<ref name="nla">{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra265-s97 |title= Monumenta cartographica [cartographic material] : reproductions of unique and rare maps, plans and views in the actual size of the originals : accompanied by cartographical monographs {{pipe}} Original map of Tasmania in December 1642 |via=National Library of Australia |access-date=31 August 2015 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629165059/http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra265-s97 |url-status=live }}</ref> He named his discovery Van Diemen's Land, after [[Antonio van Diemen]], [[Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies]].

Proceeding south, Tasman skirted the southern end of Tasmania and turned north-east. He then tried to work his two ships into [[Adventure Bay, Tasmania|Adventure Bay]] on the east coast of [[South Bruny Island]], but he was blown out to sea by a storm. This area he named [[Storm Bay]]. Two days later, on 1 December, Tasman anchored to the north of Cape Frederick Hendrick just north of the [[Forestier Peninsula]]. On 2 December, two ship's boats under the command of the Pilot, Major Visscher, rowed through the Marion Narrows into Blackman Bay, and then west to the outflow of Boomer Creek where they gathered some edible "greens".<ref>Burney, J (1813) ''A Chronological History of the Voyage and Discoveries in the South Sea of Pacific Ocean'' L Hansard & Sons, London, p. 70, cited in Potts, B.M. et al (2006) ''Janet Sommerville's Botanical History of Tasmania'' University of Tasmania and TMAG</ref> Tasman named the bay, Frederick Hendrik Bay, which included the present North Bay, [[Marion Bay, Tasmania|Marion Bay]] and what is now Blackman Bay. (Tasman's original naming, Frederick Henrick Bay, was mistakenly transferred to its present location by [[Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne|Marion Dufresne]] in 1772). The next day, an attempt was made to land in North Bay. However, because the sea was too rough, a ship's carpenter swam through the surf and planted the Dutch flag. Tasman then claimed formal possession of the land on 3 December 1642.{{sfn|Beazley|1911}}

For two more days, he continued to follow the east coast northward to see how far it went. When the land veered to the north-west at [[Eddystone Point]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schilder |first1=Günter |title=Australia unveiled : the share of the Dutch navigators in the discovery of Australia |date=1976 |publisher=Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd. |location=Amsterdam |isbn=9022199975 |page=170}}</ref> he tried to follow the coast line but his ships were suddenly hit by the [[Roaring Forties]] howling through Bass Strait.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Valentyn |first1=Francois |title=Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien |orig-date=1724–1726 |date=2003|publisher=J. van Braam |location=Dordrecht |isbn=9789051942347 |page=vol. 3, p. 47}}</ref> Tasman was on a mission to find the Southern Continent not more islands, so he abruptly turned away to the east and continued his continent-hunting.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cameron-Ash |first1=M. |title=Lying for the Admiralty |date=2018 |publisher=Rosenberg |location=Sydney |isbn=9780648043966 |page=105}}</ref>