Van Diemen's Land

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  1. The former name (until 1856) of the then-British colony and current state of Australia now known as Tasmania.
    — Let it ſuffice to inform him, that in our Paſſage from thence to the Eaſt-Indies, we were driven by a violent Storm to the Northweſt of Van Diemen's''' Land.

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After the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies Anthony van Diemen, who sent Abel Tasman on the voyage on which Tasman discovered the island.
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