1644 Abel Janszoon Tasman
Abel Janszoon Tasman
Translation opens window to Australia’s past
MEDIA RELEASE 7 December 2009 Translation opens window to Australia’s past The document that led to the first Europeans to visit and chart Australia’s coast, and the country’s first European residents, is now available on the net, for the first time, in English. “Today, we are launching the translation of the Charter of the Verenigde[…]
Dutch Claims
Dutch claims to New Holland and the British colonization in 1788 November 1786 saw the publication of An Historical Narrative of the Discovery of New Holland and New South Wales, which sought to explain the reasons for the British Government’s decision to establish a settlement at Botany Bay. Although the book was published anonymously, the[…]
Jean Pierre
Jean Pierre Purry’s proposal to colonize the Land of Nuyts. As a servant of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia in 1717, Jean Pierre Purry had proposed the settlement of Nuyts Land, the present South and South West Australia. He considered Leeuwin and Edels Lands to be islands, and included them among the[…]
New Holland and the British Colony at Botany Bay
Georg Forster Neuholland und die brittische Colonie in Botany-Bay New Holland and the British Colony at Botany Bay Translated into English Robert J. King 2008 Manuscript completed by Georg Forster on 20 November 1786. Re-published in Georg Forster’s Kleine Schriften: Ein Beytrag zur Völker-[…]
Mapping for Societal Memory: from Duyfken to Digital
Out there she is moored, the Duyfken. Of course, it is a replica, or rather a reconstruction.[i] Nevertheless thousands of people come on board, to relive the past. The past, by its very nature, is gone. The past is invisible. What are visible are traces. The objects we preserve and exhibit, the monuments we view,[…]
Duyfken is in Cairns
The Duyfken Replica Foundation has secured a three year contract for the Australian replica of the historic vessel to be moored at the tourist town of Cairns, Queensland. It may enable the DRF to raise some funds for the maintenance of the ship from tourists inspecting the ship. A program of day sailing is being considered also, whilst the 16th century Dutch yacht replica can also be hired for parties, receptions etc on board.
“When on holidays in Northern Queensland there is now a great opportunity to visit the first ship”, the DRF’s Manager Mr Cian Pereira, said. “Interesting enough we sailed into Cairns in 2006 to help commemorate the 400 year anniversary of the original Duyfken coming to Australia as the first European ship to do so, hardly anybody came to welcome the ship. Steve Irwin had just died and the town was in mourning and preparing for his funeral that day”, Mr Pereira said. “The local Mayor came out quickly on his own to welcome the ship. Now we have another “three way contract” with his Council and the Queensland Government to stay here for three years. The 2006 voyage of the Duyfken visiting 23 Australian ports was also a three way contract, then between Australia on the Map 1606-2006, the Federal Department of Environment and Heritage and the DFR”.
The misunderstood Patronimic- Jansz or Janszoon
Surnames, in the meaning of family names, were relatively uncommon in the United Provinces (Holland) in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Most people identified themselves using patronymics- a reference to the first name of their father- as a second name. They were registered as such at birth. Willem Janszoon would have been the son[…]