Word: tasman
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...traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman Sea. But any temptation to romanticize Chichester's feat will be quenched by a reading of this distillation from his 200,000-word...
...Edinburgh Festival, recently finished a successful stand in West Germany, and is now making a 105-performance tour of Australia. Last week it opened in Hobart, where Tasmanian society treated the group's coming as almost the greatest event since the arrival of Tasman, the Dutch explorer...
...Well, I just changed my field of concentration from Ancient Tasman History and Lit. to Linguistics and Psychoneurology...
...that city's famed Cape Mitchell Library. Her scholarly project was to fill in the gaps in Tonga's archives. She pored over papers dating back to 1797, examined the journals of Circumnavigator James Cook, who first saw Tonga in 1773, duly noted that Explorer Abel Tasman, discoverer of Tasmania, had paid a visit to Tonga way back in 1643. Fascinated, the Queen is now undecided as to whether the royal treasury would be strained more by the cost of microfilming the records in Australia or by dispatching a scholar to Sydney for a year's work...
Significantly, the bulk of the outcry has come from white New Zealanders, a fact reflecting how much the Maoris themselves have done to create in New Zealand perhaps the happiest multiracial situation anywhere on the globe. Handsome, intelligent Polynesians who settled in New Zealand long before Dutch Navigator Abel Tasman discovered the islands in 1642, the Maoris seemed well on the way to extinction in the late 19th century. Exploitation, Western diseases, above all a disastrous series of frontier wars in the 1860s, had reduced their population...