Tasman

Examples

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• The gateway to magnificent Abel Tasman National Park, the beach is located at the top of New Zealand's South Island.

  Blog text (7)

• The guy who discovered New Zealand, Mauritius and Tasmania was a Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman, and he missed Australia.

  Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (2016)

• Leaving Australia, we're headed 1,200 miles across the Tasman Sea... to New Zealand.

  The Endless Summer (1966)

• It was ten years later before a cable was laid across the Tasman Sea, linking New Zealand to Australia.

  Academic text (1999)

• Like Hammertime and Murinur, I'm part of the down-under contingent (on the other side of the Tasman Sea).

  Blog text (10)

• The Endeavour chart indicates the journey across from New Zealand towards the lucky northwards drift—just past the words 'Tasman Sea'—enabling the discovery of the East Coast of Australia.

  Blog text (30)

• A famous Dutch explorer, Tasman charted parts of Australia and New Zealand in the 17th century.

• The Tasman Sea lies between Australia and New Zealand, named after the explorer who first maped these coasts.

Synonyms

A

Abel Tasman

vsTasman

1 7.9

Dutch sailor who was the first European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand

is the shorter, familiar form of the same person's name

A

Abel Janszoon Tasman

vsTasman

9.8

A Dutch explorer and sailor who was the first European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand

is the shorter, more common form of that full name

Compounds

T

Tasman Sea

1 3.4

A part of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeast Australia and New Zealand

T

Tasman dwarf pine

• Australian

9.5

A small evergreen shrub with short stiff branches that grows in Tasmania

Surface Forms

Etymology