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*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading “When one house dies, a second lives.” - Maori proverb By the mid-17th century, the existence of a land in the south referred to as Terra Australis was generally known and understood by the Europeans, and incrementally, its shores were observed and mapped. Van Diemen’s Land, an island off the south coast of Australia now called Tasmania, was identified in 1642 by Dutch mariner Abel Tasman, and a few months later, the intrepid Dutchman would add New Zealand to the map of the known world. At the time, the English were the greatest naval power in Europe, but they arrived on the scene rather later. The first to appear was William Dampier, captain of the HMS Roebuck, in 1699, after he had been granted a Royal Commission by King William III to explore the east coast of New Holland. By then, the general global balance of power was shifting, and with the English gaining a solid foothold in India, their supremacy in the Indian Ocean trade zone began. The Dutch, once predominant in the region, began slowly to lose ground, slipping out of contention as a major global tradi

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Author

Charles River Charles River Editors

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781724276025

Category

history

Subjects

History, Australian & Oceanian History, Humanities

Rating

3.9 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14