Willem de Vlamingh

Willem De Vlamingh

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Willem de Vlamingh

Willem de Vlamingh (born 28 November 1640, Vlieland

Vlieland

Vlieland is a municipality in the northern Netherlands. The municipality of Vlieland has only one major town: Oost-Vlieland . It is the second-least population density municipality in the Netherlands ....
- around 1698) was a Dutch

Dutch people

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sea-captain who explored the southwest coast of Australia

Australia

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(then "New Holland

New Holland (Australia)

New Holland is a history name for the island continent of Australia. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman as Nova Hollandia, naming it after the Dutch province of Holland, and remained in use for 180 years....
") in the late 17th century.

Vlamingh joined the VOC (Dutch East India Company) in 1688 and made his first voyage to Batavia

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Willem de Vlamingh (born 28 November 1640, Vlieland

Vlieland

Dutch people

Australia

New Holland (Australia)

Jakarta

Jakarta is the Capital and largest city of Indonesia. It also has a List of urban areas by population than any other city in Southeast Asia. It was formerly known as Sunda Kelapa , Jayakarta , Batavia, Dutch East Indies , and Djakarta ....
in the same year. Following a second voyage, in 1694, he was asked to mount an expedition to search for the Ridderschap van Holland, a VOC capital ship that was lost with 325 passengers and crew on its way to Batavia in 1694. VOC officials believed it might have run aground on the west coast of New Holland.

In 1696, Willem de Vlamingh commanded the rescue mission to Australia's west coast to look for survivors of the Ridderschap van Holland that had gone missing two years earlier. The mission proved fruitless, but along the way Vlamingh charted parts of the continent's western coast and as a result improved navigation on the Indian Ocean route from the African Cape of Good Hope to the Dutch East Indies. There were three ships under his command: the frigate

Frigate

A frigate is a warship. The term has been used for warships of many sizes and roles over the past few centuries.In the 18th century, the term referred to ships which were as long as a ship-of-the-line and were square rig on all three masts , but were faster and with lighter armament, used for patrolling and escort....
De Geelvink, captained by de Vlamingh himself; the hooker

Hooker

Hooker may refer to:...
De Nijptang, under Captain Gerrit Collaert; and the galiot

Galiot

Galiots were types of ships from the Age of Sail.In the Mediterranean, galiots were a type of smaller galley, with one or two mast and about twenty oars, using both sails and oars for propulsion....
Weseltje, under Captain Joshua de Vlamingh, son of Willem de Vlamingh. The expedition departed Amsterdam on 2 May 1696 and sailed to Tristan de Cunha and Saint Peter and Paul Rocks

Saint Peter and Paul Rocks

The Saint Peter and Saint Paul Islets, officially the Arquip?lago de S?o Pedro e S?o Paulo, is an archipelago of the Pernambuco, in Brazil....
.

On December 29 1696, he landed on Rottnest Island
Rottnest Island

Rottnest Island is located 18 km off the coast of Western Australia Australia, near Fremantle, Western Australia. It is called Wadjemup by the Noongar people, meaning "place across the water"....
. He saw numerous quokka
Quokka

The Quokka , the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a large domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family , the Quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal....
s (a native marsupial) there, and thinking they were large rats he named the island "rats' nest" (Rottenest in Dutch) because of them.
On January 10 1697, he ventured up the Swan River
Swan River (Western Australia)

The Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth, Western Australia, in the south west of Western Australia. Its lower reaches are relatively wide and deep, with few constrictions, while the upper reaches are usually quite narrow and shallow....
. He and his crew are believed to have been the first Europeans to do so. He named the Swan River (Zwaanenrivier in Dutch) after the large numbers of black swan
Black Swan

The Black Swan is a large Wildfowl which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia....
s that he observed there.
On February 4 1697, he landed at Dirk Hartog Island
Dirk Hartog Island

Dirk Hartog Island is an island off the Gascoyne coast of Western Australia, within the Shark Bay, Western Australia World Heritage Area. It is about 80 kilometres long and between 3 and 15 kilometres wide and is Western Australia's largest and most western island....
, Western Australia
Western Australia

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, and replaced Dirk Hartog
Dirk Hartog

Dirk Hartog was a 17th century Netherlands sailor and explorer, Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land on Australian soil....
’s pewter
Pewter

Pewter is a malleable metal alloy, traditionally between 85 and 99 percent tin, with the remainder commonly consisting of copper, antimony and lead....
plate with a new one that bore a record of both of the Dutch sea-captain's visits. The original plate is preserved in the Rijksmuseum
Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam or Rijksmuseum is a Netherlands national museum in Amsterdam, located on the Museumplein. The museum is dedicated to arts, crafts, and history....
in Amsterdam.

In 1698 De Vlamingh offered Nicolaes Witsen

Nicolaes Witsen

Nicolaas or Nicolaes Witsen was a Dutch diplomat, cartographer, maritime writer, and thirteen times List of mayors of Amsterdam of Amsterdam between 1682-1706....
two seashells from New Holland (Australia)

New Holland (Australia)

Martin Lister

Martin Lister , English natural history and physician, was born at Radclive, near Buckingham. He was the son of Sir Martin Lister and Susan Temple....
. Witsen, who had invested in the journey, was disappointed the men had been more interested in setting up trade than in exploring.

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