Willem Janszoon
Also known as Willem Jansson, Willem Jansz
Dutch navigator and colonial governor (c.1570–c.1630)
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- 1571
- Died
- 1638
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- 33
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Willem Janszoon ( Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm ˈjɑnszoːn]; c. 1570 – c. 1630) was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. He served in the Dutch East Indies in the periods 1603–1611 and 1612–1616, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor. During his voyage of 1605–1606, Janszoon and his crew became the first Europeans known to have seen and land on the coast of Australia.
His name is sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz, as was customary at his time, but "always pronounced in full and generally still is in the Netherlands where this bit of common knowledge is taught at school." However, the abbreviation Jansz is not the same as the now more predominant unabbreviated but identical Jansz that is a petrified form of Janszoon.
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1570s births1630 deaths16th-century Dutch explorers17th-century Dutch colonial governors17th-century Dutch explorersAdmirals of the navy of the Dutch RepublicDutch East India Company people from AmsterdamDutch maritime navigatorsExplorers of AustraliaExplorers of IndonesiaSailors on ships of the Dutch East India Company