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On 25 December 1615, Dutch explorers Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten aboard the Eendracht, discovered Staten Island, close to Cape Horn. The voyage of Willem Schouten and Jacob le Maire in 1615–1616. On 29 January 1616, they sighted land they called Cape Horn, after the city of Hoorn. Aboard the Eendracht was the crew of the recently ...
20th-century Dutch explorers (11 P) A. Dutch astronauts (3 P) N. Dutch explorers of North America (8 P) P. Dutch explorers of the Pacific (5 P) Dutch polar explorers ...
Pages in category "19th-century Dutch explorers" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
Pieter Nuyts or Nuijts (1598 – 11 December 1655) was a Dutch explorer, diplomat and politician. He was part of a landmark expedition of the Dutch East India Company in 1626–27 which mapped the southern coast of Australia. He became the Dutch ambassador to Japan in 1627, and he was appointed governor of Formosa in the same year. Later he ...
Jacob Roggeveen (1 February 1659 – 31 January 1729) was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis and Davis Land, [1] but instead found Easter Island (called so because he landed there on Easter Sunday).
Pages in category "Dutch explorers of North America" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The First Dutch Expedition to the East Indies (Dutch: Eerste Schipvaart) was an expedition that took place from 1595 to 1597. It was instrumental in opening up the Indonesian spice trade to the merchants that eventually formed the Dutch East India Company , and marked the end of the Portuguese Empire 's dominance in the region.
Exploration ships of the Dutch Republic (11 P) M. Maritime history of the Dutch East India Company (2 C, 49 P) Maritime history of the Dutch Republic (4 C, 11 P)