Van Diemen's Land
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Between 4,000 and 7,000 Aboriginals were spread out over Tasmania, then known as Van Diemen’s Land, when the British military arrived with a group of convicts in 1803.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2019
When Jane Skinner went into labour at Richmond gaol in Van Diemen’s Land, Mary Ann Watson was released from solitary confinement to act as her finger-smith.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2019
We are in 19th century Tasmania, then known as Van Diemen’s Land, in the early days of a conflict that wiped out most of the island’s indigenous population.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
So it's fitting that his writings are now causing great excitement on the other side of the planet, in the colony he'd have known as Van Diemen's Land.
From BBC ● May 9, 2016
John Barry has sailed, as a free settler, either to Van Diemen’s Land, or to Canada, I know not which.”
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
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