Tasman

Tasman thought that it was part of his continent and called it Van Diemen's Land, after the governor-general who had sent him out.

Specimen from Tasman Sea, having parasitic lernæan crustaceans, to which parasitic barnacles are attached.

With the exception of Tasman, in 1642, no European captain had ever visited its shores.

There he laboured to civilize his countrymen, planted and harvested wheat, and kept in touch with Marsden across the Tasman Sea.