Subject	Explorers
	Voyages and travels
	Australia–Description and travel
	Tasmania–History
	New Zealand–History
	Manuscripts, Dutch
	Early maps
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Tasman, Abel Janszoon
Creator	Pieter Kornelis Roest and Jan Ernst Heeres
Person	Tasman, Abel Janszoon
Current Holder	State Library of New South Wales
Date	1642-01-01
Series Number	D 240
Item Number	9O4oZP6n
Access Rights	Request at location
Country Of Origin	Netherlands
	Australia
	New Zealand
Language	Dutch
	English
Description From Source	Full title: Abel Tasman journal titled `Extract uittet journael van Abel Janszoon Tasman bij hem selff int ontdecken van’t onbekende Zuijlant gehouden’, edited with English translation by P. K. Roest, and J.E. Heeres’ translation arranged in parallel columns, 1927. 1 volume of textual material, and cartographic material – manuscript copy. The original extract is located in the Mitchell Library at Safe 1/72. The extract, known as the Huydecoper manuscript, having been in the possession of the Huydecoper van Maarseven en Nigtevecht family for many years, is signed by F.J. Visscher, by whom also the two maps were drawn. The translation by J.E. Heeres was made from a manuscript in the State Archives, Rijks-Archief, at the Hague, and is signed by Tasman. The chief results of the expedition were the discovery of Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji Islands.
Physical Format	Manuscripts
	Maps
Related Resources	https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlZordn/zPN6lmQBG8dyB
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/ZBA9PKC4/