van diemen's land

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von van diemen's land im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

The former name (until 1856) of the then-British colony and current state of Australia now known as Tasmania

Silbentrennung

Van diemen's Land

Etymologie

() 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.