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Willem Janszoon

Dutch navigator and colonial governor (c–c)

Not to be confused with Willem Janszoon Blaeu (–), a contemporary Dutch cartographer.

Willem Janszoon (Dutch:[ˈʋɪləmˈjɑnsoːn]; c.&#;&#;– c.&#;), sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz.,[1] was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor.

Janszoon served in the Dutch East Indies in the periods – and –, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor.[2] During his voyage of –, he became the first European known to have seen and landed on the coast of Australia.

Willem Janszoon (Dutch: ; c. – c. ), sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz., was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Janszoon served in the Dutch East Indies in the periods – and –, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor.

Early life

Willem Janszoon (Willem Jansz) was born around as the son of Jan (c.&#;), but nothing more is known of his preliminary 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 as a mate aboard the Hollandia, part of the second fleet under Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck, dispatched by the Dutch to the Dutch East Indies.[3] Around he became the father of Jan Willemsz before setting sail again on 5 May , for the East Indies as master of the Lam, one of three ships in the fleet of Joris van Spilbergen.[4]

Janszoon sailed from the Netherlands for the East Indies for the third time on 18 December , as captain of the Duyfken (or Duijfken, meaning "Little Dove"), one of twelve ships of the superb fleet of Steven van der Hagen.[5] When the other ships left Java, Janszoon was sent to search for other outlets of trade, particularly in "the great land of New Guinea and other East and Southlands".

Exploration and discovery

First voyage to Australia

Main article: Janszoon voyage of –

On 18 November , the Duyfken sailed from Bantam to the coast of western Fresh Guinea.

After that, Janszoon crossed the eastern end of the Arafura Sea into the Gulf of Carpentaria, without being conscious of the existence of Torres Strait. The Duyfken was actually in Torres Strait in February , a few months before Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through it.

On 26 February , Janszoon made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland, close what is now the town of Weipa.

Janszoon served in the Dutch East Indies in the periods — and —, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor. Willem Janszoon Willem Jansz was born around as the son of Jan c. Janszoon is first recorded as having entered into the service of the Oude compagnieone of the predecessors of the Dutch East India Company VOCin as a mate aboard the Hollandiapart of the second fleet under Jacob Corneliszoon van Neckdispatched by the Dutch to the Dutch East Indies. Janszoon sailed from the Netherlands for the East Indies for the third time on 18 Decemberas captain of the Duyfken or Duijfkenmeaning "Little Dove"one of twelve ships of the great fleet of Steven van der Hagen.

This is the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent. Janszoon proceeded to chart some &#;km (&#;mi) of the coastline, which he thought was a southerly expansion of New Guinea.

Finding the land swampy and the people inhospitable (ten of his men were killed on various shore expeditions), Janszoon decided to restore at a place he named Kaap Keerweer (meaning "Cape Return", the name persist as Cape Keer Weer), south of Albatross Bay, and arrived back at Bantam in June 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 , Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge sent Janszoon to Ambon and Banda.[7] In , Janszoon returned to the Netherlands, believing that the south coast of New Guinea was joined to the territory along which he had sailed, and Dutch maps reproduced that error for many years.

Though there have been suggestions that earlier navigators from China, France, or Portugal may have discovered parts of Australia earlier, the Duyfken is the first Eurasian vessel definitely known to own done so.

Second voyage to Australia

Janszoon reported that on 31 July , he had landed on an island at 22° South with a length of 22 miles and miles[vague] SSE of the Sunda Strait.[8] This is generally interpreted as a description of the peninsula from Point Cloates (22°43′S°40′E / °S °E / ; ) to North West Cape (21°47′S°09′E / °S °E / ; ) on the Western Australian coast, which Janszoon presumed was an island, without fully circumnavigating it.[9]

Political

Around –, he was back in the Netherlands and was appointed as a member of the Council of the Indies.

He served as admiral of the Dutch Defence fleet.[10] Janszoon was awarded a gold chain worth 1, guilders in for his part in capturing four ships of the British East India Company near Tiku on West Sumatra, which had aided the Javanese in their defence of the town of Jakarta against the Dutch.[11] In , he was one of the negotiators with the English.

In a combined fleet, they sailed to Manila to prevent Chinese merchants dealing with the Spanish. Janszoon became vice-admiral, and the year later admiral.

Willem Janszoon Dutch: ; c. Janszoon served in the Dutch East Indies in the periods — and —, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor. During his voyage of —, he became the first European known to have seen and landed on the coast of Australia. Willem Janszoon Willem Jansz was born around as the son of Jan c.

Near the end of his life, Janszoon served as governor of Banda (–).[12] He returned to Batavia in June and soon afterwards, as admiral of a fleet of eight vessels, went on a diplomatic mission to India.[13] On 4 December , he sailed for Holland and on 16 July , reported on the state of the Indies at The Hague.[13] He was now probably about sixty years old and ready to retire from his strenuous and successful career in the service of his country.

Nothing is known of his last days, but he is mind to have died in

Records

The original journal and log made during Janszoon’s voyage have been lost. The Duyfken chart,[14] which shows the location of the first landfall in Australia by the Duyfken, had a surpass fate.

It was still in existence in Amsterdam when Hessel Gerritszoon made his map of the Pacific in , and placed the Duyfken geography upon it, thus providing us with the first map to comprise any part of Australia. The chart was still in living around , when a clone was made.

This eventually went to the Imperial Library in Vienna and remained forgotten for two hundred years. The chart is part of the Atlas Blaeu Van der Hem, brought to Vienna in by Prince Eugene of Savoy.

Willem Janszoon (–), often referred to as Willem Jansz, was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor who is most famous for organism the first known European to lay eyes on the continent of Australia in His voyage along the Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia was a significant event in the history of European exploration.

The data from his charts was included in the marble and copper maps of the hemispheres on the floor of The Citizens' Hall of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.[15][16]

Notes

  1. ^The patronymic Janszoon means 'son of Jan,' or 'son of Johannes' (Janszoon in Dutch).

    In the early seventeenth century, this was in some dialects probably pronounced the same as Jansen, a name equivalent to Johnson in English. Surnames were usually not used and children were simply named for their father's given name.

    In areas where not many people lived, but also in towns and cities, he would simply be given the name Willem Jansz; thus, all that is recognizable about him is that his father's name was Johannes or Jan. As in many countries, genealogical and historical research in the Netherlands can be complicated for this reason.

    See Note on 17th Century Dutch names. Project Gutenberg of Australia.

    Willem Jansz c. Jansz was born in Amsterdamthe Netherlands. Once in the Indies, Jansz was sent to search out other outlets for trade, particularly in "the great land of Nova Guinea and other East and Southlands. She then crossed eastern conclude of the Arafura Seawithout seeing Torres Straitinto the Gulf of Carpentariaand made a landfall on the western shore of Cape York in Queenslandnear the current town of Weipa.

    31 July

  2. ^Mutch (), p43
  3. ^Mutch (), p13
  4. ^Mutch (), p15
  5. ^Mutch (), p17
  6. ^Nieu Zeelandt on Jan Jansson and Jan Jansson, Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio,
  7. ^Dictionary of Australian Biography I-K.

    Retrieved on 2 August

  8. ^Heeres (), p13
  9. ^Mutch (), p46
  10. ^Mutch (), p49
  11. ^Mutch (), p48
  12. ^Mutch (), p50
  13. ^ abMutch (), p51
  14. ^Dese Pascaerte vertoont de wegh, soo int heen als in het weerom seylen, die gehouden is bij het Jacht het Duijfien in het besoecken van de landen beoosten Banda, tot aen Nova Guinea, Maer Guili-guli op Cenam, ende Caram etc, is na de afteijckeninge van Abraham Francken A.

    den 20 April gedaen, Ende Nieuw Zelandt met de Gounongapi daer beoosten is beseijlt, bij Jasper Janssen de Jonge [This chart shows the routes taken by the pinnace Duyfken on the outward as well as on the return voyage when she visited the countries east of Banda up to Brand-new Guinea.

    But Guli Guli on Ceran and Ceram, etc is after the survey drawn by Abraham Francken anno , done 20 April, and Nieuw Zelant with the Gunung Api east of there has been sailed about by Jasper Janssen de Jonge] (Map).

    Amsterdam. hdl/deriv/ OCLC&#; Archived from the original on 21 April Retrieved 21 April &#; via Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Bildarchiv.

  15. ^South Land to New Holland: Dutch Charting of Australia –
  16. ^?show=[permanent gone link&#;]

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