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  2. List of Dutch explorations - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Lists of Dutch inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The Netherlands and its people have made contributions to the arts, science, technology and engineering, economics and finance, cartography and geography, exploration and navigation, law and jurisprudence, thought and philosophy, medicine. and agriculture. The following list is composed of objects, (largely) unknown lands, breakthrough ideas ...

  4. List of Dutch discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Dutch chemist Hendrik Jacobus Prins discovered two new organic reactions, both now carrying the name Prins reaction. The first was the addition of polyhalogen compounds to olefins , was found during Prins doctoral research, while the others, the acid-catalyzed addition of aldehydes to olefinic compounds, became of industrial relevance.

  5. European exploration of Australia - Wikipedia

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    This is a typical map from the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. Australasia during the Golden Age of Dutch exploration and discovery (c. 1590s–1720s): including Nova Guinea , Nova Hollandia (mainland Australia), Van Diemen's Land , and Nova Zeelandia (New Zealand).

  6. European and American voyages of scientific exploration

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    From the early 15th century to the early 17th century the Age of Discovery had, through Portuguese seafarers, and later, Spanish, Dutch, French and English, opened up southern Africa, the Americas (New World), Asia and Oceania to European eyes: Bartholomew Dias had sailed around the Cape of southern Africa in search of a trade route to India; Christopher Columbus, on four journeys across the ...

  7. Major explorations after the Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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    Major explorations of Earth continued after the Age of Discovery. By the early seventeenth century, vessels were sufficiently well built and their navigators competent enough to travel to virtually anywhere on the planet by sea. In the 17th century, Dutch explorers such as Willem Jansz and Abel Tasman explored the coasts of Australia.

  8. Category:Expeditions from the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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  9. Timeline of European imperialism - Wikipedia

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    1598: Dutch established colony on uninhabited island of Mauritius; they abandon it in 1710. [1] 1608: Dutch opened their first trading post in India at Golconda. [2] 1613: Dutch East India Company expands operations in Java. [3] 1613–20: Netherlands becomes England's major rival in trade, fishing, and whaling.