Abel Tasmans Discovery of New Zealand

Abel Tasman was a Dutch explorer who was the first European to discover new Zealand he named it Staten land he sailed around the outskirts of the land and mapped the country later dutch cartographers renamed it Neiuw Zeeland after the province they came from Sealand even later on a British explorer named Captain cook was the first European to step foot on the land and renamed it New Zealand to anglicise it.

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