Tasman most often refers to

Abel Tasman Abel Janszoon Tasman (; 160310 October 1659) was a Dutch sea explorer, seafarer and exploration, explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first European to reach New ...

(1603–1659), Dutch explorer. Tasman may also refer to:

Animals and plants

* Tasman booby *

Tasman flax-lily ''Dianella tasmanica'', commonly known as the Tasman flax-lily or Tasmanian flax-lily is a herbaceous strappy perennial herb of the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae, found in southeastern Australia including Tasmania. It has l ...

Tasman parakeet (disambiguation) Tasman parakeet may refer to: * Lord Howe red-crowned parakeet * Norfolk Island green parrot {{disambiguation Animal common name disambiguation pages ...

Tasman starling The Tasman starling (''Aplonis fusca'') was described in 1836 by John Gould as a species which occurred on both Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. In 1928 Australian ornithologist Gregory Macalister Mathews, Gregory Mathews recognized that the ...

Tasman whale Shepherd's beaked whale (''Tasmacetus shepherdi''), also commonly called Tasman's beaked whale or simply the Tasman whale, is a cetacean of the family (biology), family Ziphiidae and the monotypic taxon, only species in the genus ''Tasmacetus''. ...

People

Tasman (name) Tasman is a rare family name in the diaspora of Dutch people. The distribution of people with the surname varies from about 6000 in Indonesia to small numbers in Australia and New Zealand, while by 2007 only seven people with the name lived in the ...

, a name of Dutch origin, including a list of people with the name

Places

New Zealand

Mount Tasman Mount Tasman (''Te Horokōau'' in Māori) is New Zealand's second-highest mountain, rising to a height of . It is located in the Southern Alps of the South Island, four kilometres to the north of its larger neighbour, Aoraki / Mount Cook. Unli ...

Tasman Bay Tasman Bay (; officially Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere), originally known in English as Blind Bay, is a large V-shaped bay at the north end of New Zealand's South Island. Located in the centre of the island's northern coast, it stretches alon ...

Tasman District Tasman District () is a local government district in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand. It borders the Canterbury Region, West Coast Region, Marlborough Region and Nelson City. It is administered by the Tasman District Council ...

, a local government district *

Tasman Glacier Tasman Glacier (officially Haupapa / Tasman Glacier) is the largest glacier in New Zealand, and one of several large glaciers which flow south and east towards the Mackenzie Basin from the Southern Alps in New Zealand's South Island. Geography ...

Tasman Lake Tasman Lake is a proglacial lake formed by the recent retreat of the Tasman Glacier in New Zealand's South Island. In the early 1970s, there were several small meltwater ponds on the Tasman Glacier. By 1990, these ponds had merged into Tasman La ...

Tasman (New Zealand electorate) Tasman is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1972 to 1996. Population centres Since the , the number of electorates in the South Island was fixed at 25, with continued faster population growth in the North Island leading to an i ...

Tasman River The Tasman River is an alpine braided river flowing through Canterbury, in New Zealand's South Island. The river's headwaters are in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, where it is the outflow of the proglacial Tasman Lake. It is also fed by t ...

* Tasman (settlement), in Tasman District

Tasmania, Australia

Tasman Fracture The Tasman Fracture is a deep Oceanic trench, ocean trench off the South West Tasmania, south west coast of Tasmania. It is located within the boundaries of the Tasman Fracture Commonwealth Marine Reserve which lies within the Tasmania Prov ...

, an ocean trench southwest of Tasmania *

Tasman Island The Tasman Island, part of the Tasman Island Group, is an oval island with an area of , lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is located in the Tasman Sea, situated off the Tasman Peninsula and is contained ...

, an island off the southeast coast of the Tasman Peninsula *

Tasman National Park The Tasman National Park is a national park in eastern Tasmania, Australia, approximately east of Hobart. The park is situated on part of both the Forestier and Tasman peninsulas and encompasses all of Tasman Island. History Whaling acti ...

, at the south end of the Tasman Peninsula *

Tasman Outflow The Tasman Outflow is a water pathway connecting water from the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The existence of the outflow was published by scientists of the Australian CSIRO's Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research team in August 2007, ...

, an ocean current south of Tasmania that encircles Antarctica *

Tasman Peninsula The Tasman Peninsula, officially Turrakana / Tasman Peninsula, is a peninsula located in south-east Tasmania, Australia, approximately by the Arthur Highway, south-east of Hobart. The Tasman Peninsula lies south and west of Forestier Peninsu ...

, in southeast Tasmania

Other

Tasman, Iran Tashvand (, also Romanized as Tashownd; also known as Tasmān) is a village in Miyandasht Rural District, in the Central District of Darmian County, South Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) an ...

, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran *

Tasman Rip Tasman Rip () is a marine channel in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean ...

, a marine channel in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica *

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1642 wa ...

, between Australia and New Zealand

Politics and government

Tasman Accord The Tasman Accord was signed in 1989 by Tasman Forestry Ltd, environmental groups and the Government. The company agreed to end native forest clearance on its land, protect about 39,000 hectares, and assist with the recovery programme for kōkako ...

Tasman Council Tasman Council is a Local government in Australia, local government body in Tasmania, situated in the south-east of the state. Tasman is classified as a rural local government area and has a population of 2,404, the region covers both the Tasm ...

, local government area of Tasmania

Sport

Tasman Rugby Union The Tasman Rugby Union is the governing body for rugby union in Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere, a bay at the north end of the South Island in New Zealand. Headquartered in Nelson, TRU is New Zealand's newest provincial union, founded in 2006 with ...

, the governing body for rugby union in the north of the South Island, New Zealand *

Tasman Series The Tasman Series (formally the Tasman Championship for Drivers)Tasman Championship for Drivers, CAMS Manual of Motor Sport with National Competition Rules 1974, pages 80 to 83 was a motor racing competition held annually from 1964 to 1975 ove ...

, 1964–1975, a motor racing series in Australia and New Zealand *

Trans Tasman Cup The Trans Tasman Cup was an amateur team golf event played between Australia and New Zealand. It was played annually from 2007 to 2010 and finally in 2012. It was made up of four different contests: men, women, boys and girls. Each of the four cont ...

, 2007–2012, an amateur golf tournament between Australia and New Zealand *

Tasman Cup The Tasman Cup was an amateur women's team golf tournament, played between Australia and New Zealand from 1933 to 2016. From 2007 to 2012 it was played as part of the Trans Tasman Cup. In 2016 the trophy was contested using scores from the two qu ...

, 1933–2016, an amateur women's golf tournament between Australia and New Zealand *

Trans-Tasman Cup The Trans-Tasman Cup was an association football competition played between Australia and New Zealand. Six editions were played between 1983 and 1995 after the OFC Nations Cup was discontinued. It was considered the most important Oceanian tourn ...

, 1983–1995, an association football competition between Australia and New Zealand *

Trans-Tasman Trophy The Trans-Tasman Trophy is awarded to the winner of the Australia–New Zealand Test match series in cricket. The trophy is awarded to the team that wins a Test series, or one-off Test match, between the two nations. If the series is a draw, the ...

for cricket Test match series between Australia and New Zealand

Technology and commerce

* Tasman (layout engine), a discontinued layout engine developed by Microsoft for Internet Explorer *

Tasman Mill The Tasman Mill site is a pulp and paper mill located on Fletcher Avenue just outside the town of Kawerau in New Zealand. The Tasman Mill site is the largest single employer in the Bay of Plenty, Eastern Bay of Plenty region. Three pulp or pap ...

, a pulp and paper mill near Kawerau in New Zealand *

Tasman Software Accusoft is a privately held software company that is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. It was founded in 1991 as Pegasus Imaging, by Jack Berlin, the current CEO and President. Currently, the company provides imaging software development kits (S ...

, producers of Tasword, an early word processor for personal computers

Transport

Tasman (VTA) Tasman station is an at-grade light rail station located in the center median of First Street at its intersection with Tasman Drive, after which the station is named, in San Jose, California. The station is owned by Santa Clara Valley Transpor ...

, a light rail station on Tasman Drive, San Jose, California, United States *

Tasman Bridge The Tasman Bridge is a prestressed concrete girder bridge connecting the Tasman Highway over the River Derwent (Tasmania), River Derwent in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. When it opened on 29 March 1965, the Tasman was the longest prestressed con ...

, Hobart, Tasmania *

Tasman Cargo Airlines Tasman Cargo Airlines Pty. Limited is an Australian cargo airline with the head office in Sydney, Australia. It operates scheduled international cargo services on behalf of DHL Express, DHL and ad hoc domestic and international cargo charters. ...

, based in Sydney, Australia *

Tasman Empire Airways Limited Tasman Empire Airways Limited (1940–1965), better known by its acronym TEAL, is the former name of Air New Zealand. TEAL was formed by the Intergovernmental Agreement for Tasman Sea Air Services (also known as the Tasman Sea Agreement), wh ...

(TEAL), 1940–1965, predecessor of Air New Zealand *

Tasman Highway The Tasman Highway (or A3) is a highway in Tasmania, Australia. Like the Midland Highway (Tasmania), Midland Highway, it connects the major cities of Hobart and Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston – however it takes a different route, via the no ...

(A3), an east coast highway in Tasmania between Launceston and Hobart

Other uses

* 6594 Tasman, a main-belt asteroid *

Kia Tasman The Kia Tasman () is a mid-size pickup truck to be produced by South Korean manufacturer Kia in 2025. It is built on a body-on-frame chassis, and powered by turbocharged four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines. It was unveiled simultaneously ...

, a mid-size pickup truck