Van Diemen's Land

English

Etymology

After the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies Anthony van Diemen, who sent Abel Tasman on the voyage on which Tasman discovered the island.

Proper noun

Van Diemen's Land

  1. The former name (until 1856) of the then-British colony and current state of Australia now known as Tasmania.

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