<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman" id="mwPw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abel Tasman">Abel Tasman</a> is the first recorded European to sight <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" id="mwQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>.<sup about="#mwt41" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_13#cite_note-6" id="mwQQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwQg">[6]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt38" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFKirk2012">Kirk, Robert W. (2012). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_j8-YmmA7-EC" id="mwBcQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBcU">Paradise Past: The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920</i></a>. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland &amp; Company. p.<span id="mwBcY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>31. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBcc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBcg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780786469789" id="mwBck" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780786469789"><bdi id="mwBco">9780786469789</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt38" class="Z3988" id="mwBcs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Paradise+Past%3A+The+Transformation+of+the+South+Pacific%2C+1520-1920&amp;rft.place=Jefferson%2C+N.C.&amp;rft.pages=31&amp;rft.pub=McFarland+%26+Company&amp;rft.date=2012&amp;rft.isbn=9780786469789&amp;rft.aulast=Kirk&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert+W.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_j8-YmmA7-EC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+13"></span></span>