In 1620 he was one of the negotiators with the English. Janszoon was awarded a gold chain worth 1,000 guilders in 1619 for his part in capturing four ships of the British East India Company near Tiku on West Sumatra, which had aided the Javanese in their defence of the town of Jakarta against the Dutch. He served as admiral of the Dutch Defence fleet. Political lifeĪround 1617/18 he was back in the Netherlands and was appointed as a member of the Council of the Indies. This is generally interpreted as a description of the peninsula from Point Cloates (-22.71667°N, 113.66667°W) to North West Cape (-21.78333°N, 114.15°W) on the Western Australian coast, which Janszoon presumed was an island, without fully circumnavigating it. Janszoon reported that on 31 July 1618, he had landed on an island at 22° South with a length of 22 miles and 240 miles SSE of the Sunda Strait. Though there have been suggestions that earlier navigators from China, France or Portugal may have discovered parts of Australia earlier, the Duyfken is the first European vessel definitely known to have done so. In 1611, Janzoon returned to the Netherlands, believing that the south coast of New Guinea was joined to the land along which he had sailed, and Dutch maps reproduced that error for many years. In 1607, Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge sent Janzoon to Ambon and Banda. He called the land he had discovered "Nieu Zeland", after the Dutch province of Zeeland, but the name was not adopted, and was later used by Dutch cartographers for New Zealand. Janszoon proceeded to chart some 320 km of the coastline, which he thought was a southerly extension of New Guinea.įinding the land swampy and the people inhospitable (ten of his men were killed on various shore expeditions), Janszoon decided to return at a place he named Cape Keerweer ("Turnabout"), south of Albatross Bay, and arrived back at Bantam in June 1606. This is the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent. On 26 February 1606, Janzoon made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland, near what is now the town of Weipa. The Duyfken was actually in Torres Strait in February 1606, a few months before Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through it. After that, Janszoon crossed the eastern end of the Arafura Sea into the Gulf of Carpentaria, without being aware of the existence of Torres Strait.
On 18 November 1605, the Duyfken sailed from Bantam to the coast of western New Guinea. Exploration and discovery First voyage to Australia When the other ships left Java, Janszoon was sent to search for other outlets of trade, particularly in "the great land of New Guinea and other East and Southlands". Janszoon sailed from the Netherlands for the East Indies for the third time on 18 December 1603, as captain of the (or Duijfken, meaning "Little Dove"), one of twelve ships of the great fleet of Steven van der Hagen.
Around 1600 he became the father of Jan Willemsz before setting sail again on, for the East Indies as master of the Lam, one of three ships in the fleet of Joris van Spilbergen. van Neck, dispatched by the Dutch to the Dutch East Indies. Janszoon is first recorded as entering into the service of the Oude compagnie, one of the predecessors of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in 1598 as a mate aboard the, part of the second fleet under Jacob Cornelisz. 1540), but nothing more is known of his early life nor of his parents.
Willem Janszoon (Willem Jansz) was born around 1570 as the son of Jan (c. He is the first European known to have seen the coast of Australia during his voyage of 1605–1606. Janszoon served in the Dutch East Indies in the periods 1603–16–1616, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor. Willem Janszoon (c. 1570), sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz., was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor.
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