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Ships sailing too far east find a vast unknown coast, and a Dutch company sees little reason to keep looking.
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- 1899by J. E. Heeres
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La participación de los neerlandeses en el descubrimiento de Australia 1606-1765 in short
Heeres argues that the Dutch have a large and well documented share in finding Australia. The story starts in 1606, when the Duifken reached the Gulf of Carpentaria. Ships sailing too far east on a new route found the west coast, and deliberate expeditions under Carstensz, Pool and Tasman mapped the north.
What La participación de los neerlandeses en el descubrimiento de Australia 1606-1765 is about
Picture a pewter dish nailed to a post on a lonely island off Western Australia. It carries a date, 25 October 1616, and the name of a Dutch skipper, Dirk Hartog. In 1697 another Dutch captain, Willem de Vlamingh, finds it still hanging there. He has its words copied onto a fresh dish and brings the old one home.
This book, by the Dutch historian J. E. Heeres, tells how such visits added up to the outline of a continent. It presents letters, sailing orders, ship journals and chart notes, voyage by voyage, from 1595 to 1756. You get his argument, the main voyages, and the voices of the men on deck. You also see how a trading company turned chance sightings into charts.
Para quién es. This book is for readers who love sea voyages, old charts and ship's journals, and for anyone curious about how coastlines were first mapped from original papers.
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Heeres sets out to show the Dutch share
Heeres saw a gap. While preparing his life of Abel Tasman, he noticed how little the Dutch knew of their countrymen's part in finding Australia. Foreign writers knew even less, since many could not read Dutch.
His answer was to publish the evidence itself, arranged voyage by voyage. Most of it comes from the State Archives at The Hague, where the records of the Dutch East India Company are kept. He also leans on charts, which often show results more clearly than a journal full of courses.
He does not wish to belittle other nations. Yet he is plain about his conclusion. The first authenticated discovery of any part of the Southland was made in 1606 by the Dutch ship Duifken, and every earlier claim rests on guesswork. The book lets the original papers prove the Dutch share.
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Before 1606 the Southland was only a rumor
When Dutch ships first sailed for the East in 1595, they knew the world through one book, the Itinerario of Jan Huygen van Linschoten.
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The Duifken sails and finds Cape Keerweer
On 28 November 1605 the Duifken left Bantam for New Guinea, commanded by Willem Jansz.
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A shorter sea route led ships to the west coast
The west coast was found by accident.
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Ship after ship added pieces of the west coast
After Hartogs, one ship after another saw more.
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Carstensz searches the gulf and meets hostility
In January 1623 the yachts Pera and Arnhem left Amboyna under Jan Carstensz.
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Pelsaert's wreck adds a hard-won survey
In June 1629 the ship Batavia, under Commander François Pelsaert, struck the Houtman Abrolhos.
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Van Diemen drives exploration with careful orders
Heeres singles out Governor-General Antonio van Diemen as the greatest promoter of discovery.
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The directors judged more exploring not worth the cost
In 1645 the Lords Managers wrote to Van Diemen, who had died that April.
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The Dutch charted much but never saw the east
Heeres draws the balance.
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Questions about La participación de los neerlandeses en el descubrimiento de Australia 1606-1765
Who discovered Australia according to J. E. Heeres?
Heeres holds that the first authenticated discovery of any part of Australia was made in 1606 by the Dutch yacht Duifken under Willem Jansz. He argues that claims of earlier discovery rest only on guesswork and speculation.
Which Dutch ships and captains are mentioned in the book?
Among them are the Duifken under Willem Jansz, the Eendracht under Dirk Hartogs, the Pera and Arnhem under Jan Carstensz, the Batavia under François Pelsaert, and Abel Tasman with Frans Visscher, plus Willem de Vlamingh and Maarten van Delft.
Why did the Dutch end up on the west coast of Australia?
After 1611 Dutch ships sailed east across the southern Indian Ocean before turning north for Java. Those that went too far east met the west coast by accident. Heeres separates these chance finds from deliberate voyages in the north.
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Heeres, J. E. The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-part-borne-by-the-dutch-in-the-discovery-of-australia-1606-1765.
Heeres, J. E. (2026). The part borne by the Dutch in the discovery of Australia 1606-1765. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-part-borne-by-the-dutch-in-the-discovery-of-australia-1606-1765 (Original work published 1899)
Heeres, J. E. The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-part-borne-by-the-dutch-in-the-discovery-of-australia-1606-1765.
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