The Nelson Tasman Region.
Abel Tasman National Park.
Features: Abel Tasman coastline.
Captained Gold Medal winning Trans Tasman Trophy Team, 1998.
New Zealand is east of Australia across the Tasman Sea.
The Tasman Sea is informally referred to in both Australian
After Tasman's encounter, several other European ships started visiting the island.
Although Abel Tasman is best known for his voyage of 1642;
Sulu Sea, Tasman Sea, and Yellow Sea West Sea of Korea.
Stepping into Abel Tasman is in some ways like stepping into Thailand.
The 1980s and 90s saw Nelson Polytechnic expanding operations in Tasman and Marlborough.
York Peninsula, and Abel Janszoon Tasman circumnavigated and landed on parts of the Australian continental coast
With more than 2,400 hours of sunshine, the Nelson Tasman Region consistently rates as New Zealand's sunniest spot!
The first Europeans known to have reached New
Zealand were Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and his crew in 1642.
named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who was the first recorded European to encounter New Zealand
The Bailey bridge was in use until the reconstruction of the Tasman Bridge was completed on 8 October 1977.
The sea was
named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who was the first recorded European to encounter New Zealand
and Tasmania.
It was opened around a year after the Tasman Bridge disaster destroyed the only river crossing
and effectively divided the city in two.
Tasman saw no people,
but he did see the smoke of distant fires and notches cut five feet[ 1.5 m] apart into nearby trees.
It all began with a blocking high- so-called because it blocks the
progress of other nearby weather systems- in the Tasman Sea throughout January and early February.
New Zealand, New Caledonia and the rest of Zealandia began to separate from Australia,
moving eastward toward the Pacific and opening the Coral Sea and Tasman Sea.
It's quite a journey to the very top of the North Island, but views from the place the Pacific Ocean meets the Tasman Sea are hard to beat.
Rising from the Southern Alps and draining into the Tasman Sea, the Grey River is one
of the final attractions passengers get to marvel at during the TranzAlpine journey.
The summer of 2017-18 was New Zealand's warmest on record and the Tasman Sea experienced a marine heat wave,
with temperatures up to six degrees above normal for several weeks.
The Tasman Sea is informally referred to in both Australian
and New Zealand English as The Ditch; for example, crossing the Ditch means travelling to Australia from New Zealand, or vice versa.
Nelson City is close to the geographical centre of New Zealand and bordered to the west and south-west by Tasman District Council and to the north-east,
east and south-east by Marlborough District Council.
The New Zealand best estimate of health gain is equivalent to 19 days of healthy life per person alive over the remainder of their lives-
a measure we can probably transport across the Tasman.”.