Abel Tasman Fountain, Hobart, Tasmania, AU
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ronjean
S 42° 53.177 E 147° 19.900
55G E 527083 N 5251760
The fountain has a number of elements, including ships, a pedestal with southern stars, and a celestial globe.
Waymark Code: WMX7K5
Location: Tasmania, Australia
Date Posted: 12/08/2017
Views: 9
This impressive fountain was inaugurated by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1988.
From the webpage:
"Tasman Monument, 1988
The work of local sculptor Stephen Walker, The Tasman Fountain 1988, in Salamanca Place between Gladstone Street and Montpelier Retreat. A rough-hewn plinth of white rock showing the Southern Cross in bronze is partially surrounded by a white concrete fountain with three bronze ships sailing in it. On the other side stands a full size bronze figure of Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 - 1659).
Tasman, after whom the state of Tasmania is named, was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight the Fiji islands. His navigator Francois Visscher and his merchant Isaack Gilsemans mapped substantial portions of Australia, New Zealand, and some Pacific Islands."
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