Who was the first explorer to visit New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia?

Captain James Cook was the first European to both circumnavigate New Zealand and chart the eastern coast of Australia Tasmania and New Zealand had been visited but not circumnavigated by Dutch captain Abel Jansen Tasman in 1544. S charts exist today The east coast of Australia was charted earlier in 1523-4 by an expedition of three ships under command of Portuguese captain Mendonca from the Portuguese colony of Malacca. The mahogany ship which was seen in the 19th Century in the sandhills near Warrnambool in the west coast of Victoria may well be one of his caravels, and it is located at the western extent of the map s charts were lost when a tidal wave immersed the Casa da India in Lisbon in the 18th Century, however stolen copies were incorporated in the maps of the Dieppe mapmakers in the 1530s-1560s. These maps are extant today.

One was given to Henry VIII as a wedding present by Anne of Cleves There is some slender evidence of Portuguese contact with New Zealand (in the Ruapuke wreck, the Tamil bell, the Wellington helmet and the Admiralty annotation of Cook Strait as Gulf of the Portuguese) however this remains speculative and there are no contemporary charts to support it, unless the attribution of the strangel-projecting Cape Fremose in the Dieppe Charts is taken as being New Zealand.

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