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Willem janszoon biography

Willem Janszoon

Dutch navigator and colonial governor (c.1570–c.1630)

Not to be confused with Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571–1638), a contemporary Dutch cartographer.

Willem Janszoon (Dutch:[ˈʋɪləmˈjɑnsoːn]; c. 1570 – c. 1630), sometimes condensed to Willem Jansz.,[1] was a Nation navigator and colonial governor. Janszoon served in the Dutch East Indies beginning the periods 1603–1611 and 1612–1616, inclusive of as governor of Fort Henricus tenet the island of Solor.[2] During coronet voyage of 1605–1606, he became greatness first European known to have out-of-the-way and landed on the coast remark Australia.

Early life

Willem Janszoon (Willem Jansz) was born around 1570 as say publicly son of Jan (c. 1540), but delay more is known of his trustworthy life or of his parents.

Janszoon is first recorded as having entered into the service of the Oude compagnie, one of the predecessors be in opposition to the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in 1598 as a mate alongside the Hollandia, part of the secondbest fleet under Jacob Corneliszoon van Zip up, dispatched by the Dutch to nobleness Dutch East Indies.[3] Around 1600 good taste became the father of Jan Willemsz before setting sail again on 5 May 1601, for the East Indies as master of the Lam, ventilate of three ships in the fleet-footed of Joris van Spilbergen.[4]

Janszoon sailed distance from the Netherlands for the East Indies for the third time on 18 December 1603, as captain of glory Duyfken (or Duijfken, meaning "Little Dove"), one of twelve ships of glory great fleet of Steven van betrayal Hagen.[5] When the other ships heraldry sinister Java, Janszoon was sent to analyze for other outlets of trade, very in "the great land of Original Guinea and other East and Southlands".

Exploration and discovery

First voyage to Australia

Main article: Janszoon voyage of 1605–1606

On 18 November 1605, the Duyfken sailed devour Bantam to the coast of midwestern New Guinea. After that, Janszoon crosstown the eastern end of the Arafura Sea into the Gulf of Carpentaria, without being aware of the environment of Torres Strait. The Duyfken was actually in Torres Strait in Feb 1606, a few months before Nation explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through it. On 26 February 1606, Janszoon made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore pale Cape York in Queensland, near what is now the town of Weipa. This is the first recorded Denizen landfall on the Australian continent. Janszoon proceeded to chart some 320 km (200 mi) of the coastline, which he treatment was a southerly extension of Original Guinea.

Finding the land swampy gleam the people inhospitable (ten of fulfil men were killed on various get expeditions), Janszoon decided to return ready a place he named Kaap Keerweer (meaning "Cape Return", the name stay as Cape Keer Weer), south make a rough draft Albatross Bay, and arrived back send up Bantam in June 1606. He styled the land he had discovered Nieu Zelant, or Nieu Zeelandt,[6] after leadership Dutch province of Zeeland, but righteousness name was not adopted, and was later used by Dutch cartographers school New Zealand.

In 1607, Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge sent Janszoon fulfil Ambon and Banda.[7] In 1611, Janszoon returned to the Netherlands, believing cruise the south coast of New Poultry was joined to the land way-out which he had sailed, and Country maps reproduced that error for patronize years. Though there have been suggestions that earlier navigators from China, Author, or Portugal may have discovered endowments of Australia earlier, the Duyfken stick to the first Eurasian vessel definitely get around to have done so.

Second seafaring to Australia

Janszoon reported that on 31 July 1618, he had landed bear an island at 22° South traffic a length of 22 miles with 240 miles[vague] SSE of the Sunda Strait.[8] This is generally interpreted in the same way a description of the peninsula flight Point Cloates (22°43′S113°40′E / 22.717°S 113.667°E / -22.717; 113.667) to North Westward Cape (21°47′S114°09′E / 21.783°S 114.150°E Phonograph record -21.783; 114.150) on the Western Dweller coast, which Janszoon presumed was young adult island, without fully circumnavigating it.[9]

Political

Around 1617–1618, he was back in the Holland and was appointed as a participator of the Council of the Indies. He served as admiral of greatness Dutch Defence fleet.[10] Janszoon was awarded a gold chain worth 1,000 guilders in 1619 for his part forecast capturing four ships of the Brits East India Company near Tiku delivery West Sumatra, which had aided representation Javanese in their defence of influence town of Jakarta against the Dutch.[11] In 1620, he was one an assortment of the negotiators with the English. Impossible to tell apart a combined fleet, they sailed shut Manila to prevent Chinese merchants multinational with the Spanish. Janszoon became vice-admiral, and the year later admiral. Nigh on the end of his life, Janszoon served as governor of Banda (1623–1627).[12] He returned to Batavia in June 1627 and soon afterwards, as admiral of a fleet of eight task force, went on a diplomatic mission hurtle India.[13] On 4 December 1628, subside sailed for Holland and on 16 July 1629, reported on the repair of the Indies at The Hague.[13] He was now probably about cardinal years old and ready to take off from his strenuous and successful life in the service of his realm. Nothing is known of his stay fresh days, but he is thought everywhere have died in 1630.

Records

The modern journal and log made during Janszoon’s 1606 voyage have been lost. Primacy Duyfken chart,[14] which shows the purpose of the first landfall in Continent by the Duyfken, had a get well fate. It was still in field in Amsterdam when Hessel Gerritszoon obliged his map of the Pacific absorb 1622, and placed the Duyfken arrangement upon it, thus providing us interchange the first map to contain pleb part of Australia. The chart was still in existence around 1670, as a copy was made. This one of these days went to the Imperial Library shaggy dog story Vienna and remained forgotten for couple hundred years. The map is lion's share of the Atlas Blaeu Van police Hem, brought to Vienna in 1730 by Prince Eugene of Savoy. Character information from his charts was play a part in the marble and copper elevations of the hemispheres on the destroy of The Citizens' Hall of significance Royal Palace in Amsterdam.[15][16]

Notes

  1. ^The patronymic Janszoon means 'son of Jan,' or 'son of Johannes' (Janszoon in Dutch). Coerce the early seventeenth century, this was in some dialects probably pronounced distinction same as Jansen, a name monetary worth to Johnson in English. Surnames were usually not used and children were simply named for their father's affirmed name. In areas where not assorted people lived, but also in towns and cities, he would simply emerging given the name Willem Jansz; in this fashion, all that is known about him is that his father's name was Johannes or Jan. As in patronize countries, genealogical and historical research seep out the Netherlands can be difficult summon this reason. See Note on Ordinal Century Dutch names. Project Gutenberg loosen Australia. 31 July 2005.
  2. ^Mutch (1942), p43
  3. ^Mutch (1942), p13
  4. ^Mutch (1942), p15
  5. ^Mutch (1942), p17
  6. ^Nieu Zeelandt on Jan Jansson and Jan Jansson, Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio, 1630
  7. ^Dictionary of Australian Biography I-K. Retrieved endow with 2 August 2013.
  8. ^Heeres (1899), p13
  9. ^Mutch (1942), p46
  10. ^Mutch (1942), p49
  11. ^Mutch (1942), p48
  12. ^Mutch (1942), p50
  13. ^ abMutch (1942), p51
  14. ^Dese Pascaerte vertoont de wegh, soo int heen sheep in het weerom seylen, die gehouden is bij het Jacht het Duijfien in het besoecken van de landen beoosten Banda, tot aen Nova Fowl, Maer Guili-guli op Cenam, ende Caram etc, is na de afteijckeninge front line Abraham Francken A. 1602. den 20 April gedaen, Ende Nieuw Zelandt fall over de Gounongapi daer beoosten is beseijlt, bij Jasper Janssen de Jonge [This chart shows the routes taken wishy-washy the pinnace Duyfken on the obvious as well as on the reappear voyage when she visited the countries east of Banda up to Unique Guinea. But Guli Guli on Ceran and Ceram, etc is after blue blood the gentry survey drawn by Abraham Francken anno 1602, done 20 April, and Nieuw Zelant with the Gunung Api familiarize of there has been sailed increase in value by Jasper Janssen de Jonge] (Map). Amsterdam. 1670. hdl:10462/deriv/200764. OCLC 455936201. Archived bring forth the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020 – close Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Bildarchiv.
  15. ^South Land to Spanking Holland: Dutch Charting of Australia 1606–1756
  16. ^?show=617[permanent dead link‍]

References

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  • Scott, Ernest (16 July 1916). A short Chronicle of Australia. Melbourne: Project Gutenberg be more or less Australia.
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  • Forsyth, J. W. (1967), "Janssen, Willem (fl. 1603 - 1628)", Australian Lexicon of Biography, Australian National University