An Account of Several Late Voyages & Discoveries to the South and North: Towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the Vast Tracts of Land Beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. : Also Towards Nova Zembla, Greenland Or Spitsberg, Groynland Or Engrondland, &cIncludes Narbrough's 1669-71 voyage through the Strait of Magellan and into the South Pacific; Abel Janszoon Tasman's 1842-43 voyage to the Pacific, during which he discovered Tasmania; John Wood's and William Flawes' 1676 voyage in search of the north-east passage, during which they visited Novaya Zemlya; and the first English translation of Friedrich Martens' voyage to Spitzbergen and Greenland in 1671. |
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