范迪门斯地并不与澳洲大陆接壤，而是通过一个一个宽阔的海峡与之隔海相望，这个海峡日后被恰当地命名为“巴斯海峡”。

Van Diemen's Land is not joined to Australia, but is divided from it by the wide strait to which Bass's name is now so justly given.

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但是他的最大贡献，是证明了范迪门斯地并不与澳洲大陆接壤，而是通过一个一个宽阔的海峡与之隔海相望，这个海峡日后被恰当地命名为“巴斯海峡”。

His greatest service, however, was the proof that Van Diemen's Land is not joined to Australia, but is divided from it by the wide strait to which Bass's name is now so justly given.

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