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Dutch navigator and colonial control (c.1570–c.1630)

Not to be confused decree Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571–1638), unadorned contemporary Dutch cartographer.

Willem Janszoon (Dutch:[ˈʋɪləmˈjɑnsoːn]; c. 1570 – c. 1630), sometimes abbreviated involving Willem Jansz.,^[1] was a Land navigator and colonial governor.

Janszoon served in the Dutch Eastward Indies in the periods 1603–1611 and 1612–1616, including as controller of Fort Henricus on greatness island of Solor.^[2] During sovereignty voyage of 1605–1606, he became the first European known come to have seen and landed refutation the coast of Australia.

Early life

Willem Janszoon (Willem Jansz) was born around 1570 as magnanimity son of Jan (c. 1540), on the other hand nothing more is known rot his early life or put a stop to his parents.

Janszoon is supreme recorded as having entered pause the service of the Oude compagnie, one of the rummage of the Dutch East Bharat Company (VOC), in 1598 translation a mate aboard the Hollandia, part of the second express under Jacob Corneliszoon van Osculate, dispatched by the Dutch around the Dutch East Indies.^[3] Posse 1600 he became the papa of Jan Willemsz before undisciplined sail again on 5 Might 1601, for the East Indies as master of the Lam, one of three ships break off the fleet of Joris car Spilbergen.^[4]

Janszoon sailed from the Holland for the East Indies seize the third time on 18 December 1603, as captain show the Duyfken (or Duijfken, central theme "Little Dove"), one of cardinal ships of the great expeditious of Steven van der Hagen.^[5] When the other ships left-hand Java, Janszoon was sent private house search for other outlets always trade, particularly in "the enormous land of New Guinea nearby other East and Southlands".

Exploration and discovery

First voyage to Australia

Main article: Janszoon voyage of 1605–1606

On 18 November 1605, the Duyfken sailed from Bantam to distinction coast of western New Fowl. After that, Janszoon crossed position eastern end of the Arafura Sea into the Gulf dressingdown Carpentaria, without being aware late the existence of Torres Avenue.

The Duyfken was actually comprise Torres Strait in February 1606, a few months before Romance explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through it. On 26 February 1606, Janszoon made landfall at the Pennefather River formation the western shore of Steady York in Queensland, near what is now the town be more or less Weipa. This is the chief recorded European landfall on magnanimity Australian continent.

Janszoon proceeded register chart some 320 km (200 mi) promote to the coastline, which he impression was a southerly extension discovery New Guinea.

Finding the incline swampy and the people chilly (ten of his men were killed on various shore expeditions), Janszoon decided to return go bad a place he named Kaap Keerweer (meaning "Cape Return", position name persist as Cape Keer Weer), south of Albatross Shout, and arrived back at Petite in June 1606.

He hollered the land he had revealed Nieu Zelant, or Nieu Zeelandt,^[6] after the Dutch province considerate Zeeland, but the name was not adopted, and was adjacent used by Dutch cartographers rationalize New Zealand.

In 1607, Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge twist and turn Janszoon to Ambon and Banda.^[7] In 1611, Janszoon returned be selected for the Netherlands, believing that goodness south coast of New Poultry was joined to the sod along which he had sailed, and Dutch maps reproduced desert error for many years.

Although there have been suggestions deviate earlier navigators from China, Writer, or Portugal may have unconcealed parts of Australia earlier, rectitude Duyfken is the first Asiatic vessel definitely known to have to one`s name done so.

Second voyage do good to Australia

Janszoon reported that on 31 July 1618, he had affluent on an island at 22° South with a length not later than 22 miles and 240 miles^[vague] SSE of the Sunda Strait.^[8] This is generally interpreted despite the fact that a description of the ness from Point Cloates (22°43′S113°40′E Memorandum 22.717°S 113.667°E / -22.717; 113.667) to North West Cape (21°47′S114°09′E / 21.783°S 114.150°E / -21.783; 114.150) on the Western Denizen coast, which Janszoon presumed was an island, without fully circumnavigating it.^[9]

Political

Around 1617–1618, he was bring to an end in the Netherlands and was appointed as a member discovery the Council of the Indies.

He served as admiral replicate the Dutch Defence fleet.^[10] Janszoon was awarded a gold yoke worth 1,000 guilders in 1619 for his part in capturing four ships of the Country East India Company near Tiku on West Sumatra, which confidential aided the Javanese in their defence of the town cut into Jakarta against the Dutch.^[11] Unplanned 1620, he was one outline the negotiators with the Forthrightly.

In a combined fleet, they sailed to Manila to frustrate Chinese merchants dealing with honourableness Spanish. Janszoon became vice-admiral, endure the year later admiral. Fasten the end of his have a go, Janszoon served as governor dispense Banda (1623–1627).^[12] He returned hinder Batavia in June 1627 instruct soon afterwards, as admiral remember a fleet of eight armada, went on a diplomatic life`s work to India.^[13] On 4 Dec 1628, he sailed for Holland and on 16 July 1629, reported on the state go along with the Indies at The Hague.^[13] He was now probably reposition sixty years old and failing to retire from his tiring and successful career in leadership service of his country.

Naught is known of his carry on days, but he is meditating to have died in 1630.

Records

The original journal and list made during Janszoon’s 1606 trip have been lost. The Duyfken chart,^[14] which shows the point of the first landfall generate Australia by the Duyfken, confidential a better fate.

It was still in existence in Amsterdam when Hessel Gerritszoon made sovereignty map of the Pacific condemn 1622, and placed the Duyfken geography upon it, thus fitting out us with the first project to contain any part delightful Australia. The chart was freeze in existence around 1670, considering that a copy was made.

That eventually went to the Regal Library in Vienna and remained forgotten for two hundred lifetime. The map is part ceremony the Atlas Blaeu Van error Hem, brought to Vienna absorb 1730 by Prince Eugene fine Savoy. The information from authority charts was included in rank marble and copper maps attack the hemispheres on the demolish of The Citizens' Hall be alarmed about the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.^[15][16]

Notes

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