Jan Carstenszoon
Jan Carstenszoon or more commonly Jan Carstensz [1] was a 17th-century Dutch explorer. In 1623, Carstenszoon was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to lead an expedition to the southern coast of New Guinea and beyond, to follow up the reports of land sighted further south in the 1606 voyages of Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken.
Setting sail from
indigenous Australian inhabitants. Carstenszoon described them as "poor and miserable looking people" who had "no knowledge of precious metals or spices
".
On 8 May 1623, Carstenszoon and his crew fought a skirmish with 200
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Carstenszoon reached the Staaten River before heading north again. The Pera and Carstenszoon returned to Ambon while the Arnhem crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria, sighting the east coast of Arnhem Land
.
Irian Jaya, Indonesia was named after him. Carstenszoon sighted the glaciers on the peak of the mountain in 1623 and called it Sneebergh; he was ridiculed in Europe when he said he had seen snow near the equator. Carstenszoon also named several other features along Australia
's north coast.
See also
References
- patronymsending in -szoon were almost universally abbreviated to -sz
- ^ ISBN 0-17-001812-1. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
External links
- Dutch explorers and Australia: 1606-1697
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Carstensz, Jan". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
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