• Willem Janszoon (Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm ˈjɑnsoːn]; c. 1570 – c. 1630), sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz., was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Janszoon...
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    Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm ˈjɑnsoːm ˈblʌu]; 1571 – 21 October 1638), also abbreviated to Willem Jansz. Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer...
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    Willem Janszoon captained the first recorded European landing on the Australian continent in 1606, sailing from Bantam, Java, in the Duyfken. As an employee...
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    Dolhuys Perhaps the most famous regent today of the medieval Dolhuys was Willem Janszoon Verwer, who kept a diary, most notably of his experiences during the...
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    and 1622. On the 1618 voyage, the ship was commanded by Supercargo Willem Janszoon and captained by Lenaert Jacobszoon, when they sighted North West Cape...
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    from Bantam (Banten), Java, captained by Willem Janszoon, she encountered the Australian mainland. Janszoon is credited with the first authenticated European...
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  • Governor Janszoon may refer to: Jan Janszoon (born 1570s), Governor of Salé (ceremonial) from 1623 to 1627 Willem Janszoon (1570s–1630), Governor of Banda...
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    coastline. The first documented encounter was that of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, in 1606. Dutch seafarers also visited the west and north coasts of...
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  • Corsair Republic of Salè, Governor of Oualidia, and a Dutch pirate Willem Janszoon (1570–1630), Dutch navigator and colonial governor, is the first European...
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    Strait Islands inhabited by Torres Strait Islanders. Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, the first European to land in Australia, explored the west coast of...
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    Abel Janszoon Tasman (Dutch: [ˈaːbəl ˈjɑnsoːn ˈtɑsmɑn]; 1603 – 10 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 and...
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    Australian peoples for tens of thousands of years. In 1606, Dutch sailor Willem Janszoon on board the Duyfken was the first European to land in Australia, reaching...
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    India Company ship Mauritius in 1618, under the command of Supercargo Willem Janszoon and captained by Lenaert Jacobszoon, and is one of the few features...
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  • up the reports of land sighted further south in the 1606 voyages of Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken. Setting sail from Ambon in the Dutch East Indies with...
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    exploration of Australia first began in February 1606, when Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon landed in Cape York Peninsula and on October that year when Spanish...
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    Sir Francis Drake Juan Sebastián Elcano Vasco da Gama Prince Henry Willem Janszoon Ferdinand Magellan Gerardus Mercator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón Francisco...
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    known landing in Australia by Europeans was in 1606 by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon on Australia's northern coast. Dutch navigators explored the western...
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  • Willem Janszoon on Duyfken is credited as being the first Australian visit by European explorers.) 1618 – Dutch East India Company supercargo Willem Janszoon...
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    with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken, captained by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, and made...
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    1499/1500, is published in Frankfurt. February 26 Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European. Pedro...
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    island in present-day Vanuatu. Dutch navigator and colonial governor, Willem Janszoon sailed from the Netherlands for the East Indies for the third time...
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    Anthony Janszoon van Salee (1607–1676) was an original settler of and prominent landholder, merchant, and creditor in New Netherland. Van Salee, commonly...
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    expedition to land on the Australian continent, having been preceded by Willem Janszoon in 1606, but the first to do so on the western coastline. Hartog spent...
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  • etymologies for the names of local places. Landing at Cape York by Willem Janszoon, the first European to see the coast of Australia, 1606. Myths from...
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    footballer Willem Janssen (footballer, born 1986), Dutch footballer Willem Janszoon (ca. 1570–1630), Dutch navigator and colonial governor Willem Jewett (1963-2022)...
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    major rivers. The first known European explorer of the region was Willem Janszoon. The Gulf Country is a block of dry savanna between the wetter areas...
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    sighted the Australian mainland visited just four months earlier by Willem Janszoon sailing Duyfken without conversely becoming aware of the strait now...
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    and what would come to be called Australia. In 1606 Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon made the first documented European sight and landing on the continent...
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    coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Willem Janszoon made the first recorded European landfall in Australia during the Janszoon voyage of 1605-6. Other places...
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    European explorer to visit the region (and Australia) was the Dutch Willem Janszoon (whose name is also written as Jansz) in his 1605–06 voyage. His fellow...
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