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1593-1645. Dutch admiral. In 1636 he was
appointed governor general of Dutch
settlements in the E Indies, and wrested
Ceylon and Malacca from the Portuguese. In
1636 and 1642 he supervised expeditions to
Australia, on the second of which the
navigator Abel Tasman discovered land not
charted by Europeans, and named it Van
Diemen's Land, now Tasmania.