Willem Janszoon

Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm ˈjɑnsoːn]; c. 1570 – c. 1630), sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz, was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Willem was one of the first people to find Australia before Captain James Cook found it.

Willem Janszoon Media

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  19th-century artist impression of the ship Duyfken in the Gulf of Carpentaria

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  Willem Janszoon’s Vliege Bay, Dubbelde Rev., R. Visch, and Cape Keerweer on the coast of Nueva Guinea on Hessel Gerritszoon’s map of the Pacific Ocean, 1622