Abel Tasman In the same year, Tasman also made landfall in Tasmania, Australia, and claimed possession of the island; the first European recorded as having visited Australia was Willem Janszoon in 1606.
Which New Zealand cricketer, a left-handed batsman who captained New Zealand in 4 Tests in the early 1950s, was one of Wisden's cricketers of the year for 1950?
Who is the New Zealand-born physicist whose discoveries include most of the great advances in physics between 1899 and 1930?
