Tasmania is named after who?????

Question

Tasmania is named after who?????

Answer 1

Able Tasman

Answer 2

The Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman, who originally named it Anthoonij van Diemenslandt. It was later shortened to Van Diemen's Land, and only in 1856, renamed Tasmania, in honor of its discoverer.

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Answer 3

Abel Tasman, the Dutch explorer who first sighted the west coast of Tasmania in 1642 and named it Van Diemens Land after the governer general of the Dutch East Indies.

In response to Elizabeths answer, Tasmania is an island and a state of Australia, not a continent.

Answer 4

An inbred.

Answer 5

the tasmanian devil

Answer 6

Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 - October 10, 1659), who was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant. The first reported sighting of Tasmania by a Tasman was on November 24, 1642 and Able Tasman named the island, Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, after his sponsor. After the British landed and settled the area, to remove the stigma of the Dutch, the name was eventually changed to honor the first explorer to sight the land.

Answer 7

In 1642 a Dutch sea captain named Abel Tasman visited an island which he called Van Diemens Land. In 1855 this island was renamed Tasmania in honour of the man who discovered it. He was 40 years old when he discovered the land and he died at 57 years old. It was the last continent to be discovered.

Answer 8

The Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman, who originally named it Anthoonij van Diemenslandt. It was later shortened to Van Diemen's Land, and only in 1856, renamed Tasmania, in honor of its discoverer.

Answer 9

Tas, the thing between your legs.

Answer 10

Abel Tasman an explorer.

Answer 11

Abel Tasman who in 1642 discovered and sailed around part of what he called Van Diemen's Land.