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Date: 1642 - 1898

From: Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603-1659? :Abel Janszoon Tasman's journal. Amsterdam, Friedrich Muller & Co, 1898.

By: Gilsemans, Isaack, 1606?-1646

Reference: PUBL-0086-021

Description: Golden Bay in December 1642, during the visit of Abel Tasman. A canoe of Maori men in the foreground, and two views of Tasman's ships, the Heemskerck and the Zeehaen (both flying the Dutch flag), sailing away in the left foreground, and surrounded by canoes and firing their canon in the middle distance. A rowboat (the cockboat of the Zeehaen) is between the two ships, with its occupants being attacked in the centre. Also in the left foreground can be seen the Heemskerck's pinnace towing the Zeehaen's cockboat back to the two ships after the attack. The hills of Golden Bay form a backdrop to the scene. The canoe in the foreground appears to be double-hulled. The rowers all have topknot hairstyles. The man standing on the right at the prow of the canoe is wearing a woven garment, covering his shoulders and tied at the breast, while the others have loin-cloths, and in one case, a garment that envelopes the torso. Other Titles - Aldus verthoont de Moordenaers Bay Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 290 x 435 mm

Date: 1642 - 1992

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand. Department of Survey and Land Information; Robertson, William Alexander, 1937-

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/28/361/Acc.55047

Description: Infomap 344. Poster featuring facsimile reproduction of historical map and modern map depicting route sailed by Tasman along the west coast of New Zealand in 1642. - "Chart of New Zealand leg of Abel Tasman's voyage, 1642/43, reproduced from a copy of the journal of the voyages held at the General State Archives in The Hague." - "Present day map of part of the coast of New Zealand illustrating Abel Tasman's voyage of 1642/43." Published under the authority of W A Robertson, Surveyor General, Department of Survey and Land Information, Wellington. Produced in conjunction with the New Zealand Abel Tasman 1992 Commission. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed poster on paper, 89 x 59 cm.

Date: 14 Aug 1642-15 Jan 1643

By: Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603?-1659?; Woide, Charles Godrey, 1725-1790

Reference: MS-2119

Description: Manuscript of the first translation from Dutch into English (made for Sir Joseph Banks) of Tasman's journal from Batavia in 1642-1643, by C G Woide. Woide includes an introduction to Joseph Banks on the nature of his transcription. There is also a small lexicon of some of the Dutch words used by Tasman. The journal begins on the 14th August 1462 as Tasman and his crew set sail from Batavia aboard the `Heemskerck' and the `Zeehaen'. The vessels travelled south via Mauritius and Tasmania. The entry for 13 Dec 1642 describes their first sighting of New Zealand. From New Zealand Tasman continued on to Tonga and Fiji, then returning to Java. Volume also includes a tipped in letter from the British Museum to the Alexander Turnbull Library (1960) regarding the provenance of the volume and how it had been originally owned by Sir Joseph Banks. Another facsimile copy of this journal by Woide is held by the British Library (MS 8947). Charles G Woide was commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks to translate Tasman's original journal from the Dutch language. A note by Sir Clements Robert Markham in the prefix of the volume indicates Woide hoped to be paid £30 for the transcription work. Markham also advises he will let Edward Stanhope (politician and owner of Bank's property estate) of the removal of the volume from Banks' personal library. Woide was an orientalist, biblical scholar and Assistant Librarian in the British Museum from 1782 until his death in 1790. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (338 pages). Physical Description: Mss and typescript

Date: 1642 - 1942 - 1943

By: Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005; Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001

Reference: A-256-029

Description: Tasman's two ships, the Heemskerck and the Zeehaen, sailing close to the shore of part of Golden Bay, with a foreground of large curved waves The foreground waves resemble the prints of Hokusai in style Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, date & signature in pencil Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 77 x 102 mm on sheet 150 x 170 mm Provenance: Presented by Allen and Betty Curnow to Douglas Lilburn, composer of music to Allen Curnow's poem 'Landfall in unknown seas'. Printed by Betty Curnow from a printer's block made from her larger original ink drawing of the same scene for the frontispiece in the Review of Canterbury University College, 1943, with title: Illustrations by Bette [sic] Curnow for the Tasman tercentennial poem 'Landfall in unknown seas'. (See Betty Curnow's letter at MS Papers 2292).