Middleton & Maning's Tasmanian Directory And Gazetteer.

Middleton & Maning's Tasmanian Directory And Gazetteer.

Author: Alec Middleton.

Year: 1887

Middleton & Maning's Tasmanian Directory and Gazetteer; containing a gazetteer of Tasmania, Alphabetical, Street, Trade & Professional, Government, Official, Medical, Legal, Miscellaneous Co.'s & Municipal Directories. Together with a vast amount of General and Useful Information. Second Year of Publication. Alec Middleton and Frances Beresford Maning, Publishers. Gornall, Printer, "Times" Office, Redfern, Sydney. 528 pages. From page 1 : “TASMANIAN GAZETTEER. THE island of Tasman, or as it was formerly called Van Diemen's Land, was discovered ou the 24th November, 1642, by Abel Jasman Tasman, an enterprising and skil£ul Dntch Navigator, who was commissioned by Anthony Van Diemen, then Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, to explore the "Great South Island." Tasman anchored in Frederick Hendrik Bay (so named after the Stadholder of Holland) on the South Eastern Coast December lst, 1642, and namecl the newly found land, Van Diemen, after the Governor General, Anthony Van Diemen. This name was changed to Tasmania, January lst, 1856. ...”