Willem Janszoon
Willem Janszoon | |
---|---|
Born | c. 1570 colonial governor |
Known for | European discovery of Australia |
Willem Janszoon (Dutch:
Early life
Willem Janszoon (Willem Jansz) was born around 1570 as the son of Jan (c. 1540), but nothing more is known of his early life or of his parents.
Janszoon is first recorded as having entered into the service of the Oude compagnie, one of the predecessors of the
Janszoon sailed from the Netherlands for the East Indies for the third time on 18 December 1603, as captain of the
Exploration and discovery
First voyage to Australia
On 18 November 1605, the
Finding 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. He called the land he had discovered Nieu Zelant, or Nieu Zeelandt,[6] after the Dutch province of Zeeland, but the name was not adopted, and was later used by Dutch cartographers for New Zealand.
In 1607, Admiral
Second voyage to Australia
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[vague] SSE of the Sunda Strait.[8] This is generally interpreted as a description of the peninsula from Point Cloates (22°43′S 113°40′E / 22.717°S 113.667°E) to North West Cape (21°47′S 114°09′E / 21.783°S 114.150°E) on the Western Australian coast, which Janszoon presumed was an island, without fully circumnavigating it.[9]
Political life
Around 1617–1618, he was back in the Netherlands and was appointed as a member of the
Records
The original journal and log made during Janszoon’s 1606 voyage have been lost. The Duyfken chart,
Notes
- Project Gutenberg of Australia. 31 July 2005.
- ^ Mutch (1942), p43
- ^ Mutch (1942), p13
- ^ Mutch (1942), p15
- ^ Mutch (1942), p17
- ^ Nieu Zeelandt on Jan Jansson and Jan Jansson, Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio, 1630
- ^ Dictionary of Australian Biography I-K. Gutenberg.net.au. Retrieved on 2 August 2013.
- ^ Heeres (1899), p13
- ^ Mutch (1942), p46
- ^ Mutch (1942), p49
- ^ Mutch (1942), p48
- ^ Mutch (1942), p50
- ^ a b Mutch (1942), p51
- OCLC 455936201. Archived from the originalon 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020 – via Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Bildarchiv.
- ^ South Land to New Holland: Dutch Charting of Australia 1606–1756
- ^ http://www.historychannel.com.au/tv-shows/showDetails.aspx?show=617[permanent dead link]
References
- Heeres, J. E. (1899). Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765. London: Project Gutenberg of Australia. p. 114.
- Mutch, T. D. (1942). The First Discovery of Australia. Sydney: Mutch, Project Gutenberg of Australia. p. 55.
- Project Gutenberg of Australia.
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Janszoon, Willem". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
- Forsyth, J. W. (1967), "Janssen, Willem (fl. 1603 - 1628)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University