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oceans is less distinct, but generally it is considered to lie along the line of islands extending eastward fromSumatra, throughJavatoTimor, thence across theTimor Seato Cape Londonderry in Australia. To the south of Australia the boundary extends across theBass Straitand thence fromTasmaniato 60...
Tasman, sailing from Batavia (nowJakarta), the Dutch headquarters in theEast Indies, sawNew Zealand,Tasmania, Tonga, some of the Fiji Islands, andNew Britain. The Dutch were primarily interested in commerce; they found none. Tasman thought that New Zealand was part of the great southern ...
because they entail distances greater than 120 miles (200 km). This is the earliest confirmed seafaring in the world. By about 35,000 years ago all of the continent had been occupied, including the southwest and southeast corners (Tasmaniabecame an island when sea levels rose sometime between...