On this day in 1642‚ Dutch navigator Abel Tasman sighted South Island‚ New Zealand‚ and later‚ mistaking the strait north of the island for a bay‚ believed he had found the west coast of a hypothetical southern continent.  Tasman was the greatest of the Dutch navigators and explorers. He was the first European to sight Tasmania‚ New Zealand‚ Tonga‚ and the Fiji Islands. — December 13th is the birthday of Sergeant Alvin York. — Wow!  GunMag Warehouse (One of our affiliate advertisers) is running a pre-Christmas special: ETS GEN 2 9mm 32-Round Magazines for Glock Pistols (Black only) for just … The post Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — December 13‚ 2023 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.