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 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[…]
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-[…]
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,[…]
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[…]
Ian Edwards 2002 Headlines of History: A Chronicle of Western Australian History (Perth?, Flying Fish Ventures) p. 9 Visit by French Vessel L’Oiseau 4 August 1687 En route from Cape of Good Hope to Thailand, the French ship L’Oiseau, under the command of Admiral Duquesne-Guitton … sighted the coast of “Terre de la Concorde” (New[…]
Introduction Gavin Menzies is the author of a very successful book, entitled 1421: The year China discovered the world, published first in 2002. There have been subsequent editions in paperback. Many members of the community of scholars who specialize in the history of cartography have criticized this text severely. This lecture reviews some of the[…]
Swedish Crew Members on Dutch Ships 1600s & 1700s There were Swedish crew members on Dutch ships visiting Australia in 1600s and 1700s. Solander with Captain Cook 1770 Swedish born Daniel Solander sailed in the Endeavour, as Assistant Botanist under Banks, when Captain Cook mapped the east coast of Australia in 1770. Discovery of Norfolk[…]