Near the end of his life, Janszoon served as governor of Banda (1623–1627). Janszoon became vice-admiral, and the year later admiral. In a combined fleet they sailed to Manila to prevent Chinese merchants dealing with the Spanish. In 1620 he was one of the negotiators with the English. Janszoon was awarded a gold chain worth 1,000 guilders in 1619 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. He served as admiral of the Dutch Defence fleet. Visch, and Cape Keerweer on the coast of Nueva Guinea on Hessel Gerritszoon’s map of the Pacific Ocean, 1622.Īround 1617/18 he was back in the Netherlands and was appointed as a member of the Council of the Indies. Willem Janszoon’s Vliege Bay, Dubbelde Rev., R. This is generally interpreted as a description of the peninsula from Point Cloates ( 22☄3′S 113☄0′E / 22.717°S 113.667☎ / -22.717 113.667) to North West Cape ( 21☄7′S 114☀9′E / 21.783°S 114.150☎ / -21.783 114.150) on the Western Australian coast, which Janszoon presumed was an island, without fully circumnavigating it. Janszoon reported that on 31 July 1618, he had landed on an island at 22° South with a length of 22 miles and 240 miles SSE of the Sunda Strait. 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 European vessel definitely known to have done so. In 1611, Janzoon returned to the Netherlands, believing that the south coast of New Guinea was joined to the land along which he had sailed, and Dutch maps reproduced that error for many years. In 1607, Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge sent Janzoon to Ambon and Banda. He called the land he had discovered "Nieu Zeland", after the Dutch province of Zeeland, but the name was not adopted, and was later used by Dutch cartographers for New Zealand. Janszoon proceeded to chart some 320 km (200 mi) of the coastline, which he thought was a southerly extension of New Guinea.įinding the land swampy and the people inhospitable (ten of his men were killed on various shore expeditions), Janszoon decided to return at a place he named Cape Keerweer ("Turnabout"), south of Albatross Bay, and arrived back at Bantam in June 1606. This is the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent. On 26 February 1606, Janzoon made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland, near what is now the town of Weipa. The Duyfken was actually in Torres Strait in February 1606, a few months before Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through it. After that, Janszoon crossed the eastern end of the Arafura Sea into the Gulf of Carpentaria, without being aware of the existence of Torres Strait. On 18 November 1605, the Duyfken sailed from Bantam to the coast of western New Guinea. Exploration and discovery First voyage to Australiaġ9th-century artist impression of the ship Duyfken in the Gulf of Carpentaria 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". Janszoon sailed from the Netherlands for the East Indies for the third time on 18 December 1603, as captain of the Duyfken (or Duijfken, meaning "Little Dove"), one of twelve ships of the great fleet of Steven van der Hagen. On, he again sailed for the East Indies as master of the Lam, one of three ships in the fleet of Joris van Spilbergen. van Neck, dispatched by the Dutch to the Dutch East Indies. Janszoon is first recorded as entering 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 Cornelisz. Willem Janszoon (Willem Jansz) was born around 1570, but nothing is known of his early life nor of his parents.
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