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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 Dutch East India Company (VOC), in 1598 as a mate aboard the Hollandia, part of the second fleet under Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck ...
Map of the voyage of Willem Janszoon in 1605–1606. Willem Janszoon captained the first recorded European landing on the Australian continent in 1606, sailing Duyfken from Bantam, Java. As an employee of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC), Janszoon had been instructed to explore the coast of New ...
The first documented encounter was that of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, in 1606. Dutch seafarers also visited the west and north coasts of the continent, as did French explorers. The most famous expedition was that of Royal Navy Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook 164 years after Janszoon's sighting.
The European 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 explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, Torres Strait islands. [1]
The first known European explorer to visit the region was Dutch Willem Janszoon (also known as Willem Jansz) on his 1605–06 voyage. His fellow countryman, Jan Carstenszoon (also known as Jan Carstensz), visited in 1623 and named the gulf in honour of Pieter de Carpentier, at that time the governor-general of Dutch East Indies.
New Holland (Dutch: Nieuw-Holland) is a historical European name for mainland Australia, first encountered by Europeans in 1606, by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon aboard Duyfken. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman , and for a time came to be applied in most European maps to the vaunted "Southern ...
Other places were given Dutch names by later explorers or colonists in honour of the Dutch. These include: Duyfken Point near Weipa where Willem Janszoon first sighted the Australian coast in 1606. Tasmania - Australian state, along with 31 other places with the name of Tasman in Tasmania
Has been claimed at various times that he did in fact do so. resources - Pedro Fernandez de Quiros bio page 1605 - 1606 Janszoon voyage of 1605-6 Willem Janszoon explores the western coast of Cape York Peninsula. The first recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil. Charted about 300 km of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula in ...