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Wednesday, April 21, 1999
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This is what I learned:
The first European to see New Zealand in 1642 was Tasman Abel, a Dutch navigator. Zeeland is a province of his native country, The Netherlands. Tasman named New Zealand after that province, and named the island of Tasmania after himself...
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Ottmar Liebert.
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