Van Diemen’s Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to land on the shores of Tasmania.<\/p>\n
Located directly in the Roaring Forties and fully exposed the brunt of the Southern Ocean swells Van Diemen\u2019s Land has been on my radar for a fair while already. I followed the great pioneers in their explorer-spirit and my discovery voyage took me 7200km back and forth crisscrossing around the entire island. Considering it\u2019s only 315 km (180 miles) from west to east and 286 km (175 miles) north to south, I scoped out \u2018quite a few\u2019 places here and changed my return ticket twice as I simply could not get enough of it. I had found kite-wonderland!<\/p>\n
Read the full story about this once-in-a-lifetime adventure in english in the leading international magazine Kiteworld right here!<\/strong> Just simply scroll down and chose if you wanted to download the pdf or to read online. And the beautiful 10 page spread<\/strong> in the mag simply confirms how special this trip was \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n If English is not your mother tongue, don\u2019t despair, here\u2019s the\u00a0German<\/strong>\u00a0version on 10.5 pages in Kiteboarding.eu,<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Spanish<\/strong>\u00a0version on 6 pages in Surf a Vela<\/a>\u00a0or the French <\/strong>on 10 pages in Kiteboarder Mag.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/p>\n Gx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Van Diemen’s Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to land on the shores of Tasmania. Located directly in the Roaring Forties and fully exposed the brunt of the Southern Ocean swells Van Diemen\u2019s Land […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26],"tags":[1194,938,1861,1887,1744,1916,1915,1195,1853,1906,358,42],"class_list":["post-10608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-travel-stories","tag-abel","tag-adventure","tag-diemens","tag-kite-world","tag-land","tag-roaring-forties","tag-southern-ocean","tag-tasman","tag-tasmania","tag-travel","tag-van","tag-waves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t