Why did willem jansz come to australia

A timeline of significant landings can be found at the Australia on the Map website, along with early maps, excerpts from journals, pictures and a bibliography for further references.

The publisher's site is no longer current. There are claims of earlier landings by the Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Arabs and Romans, but there is little credible documented evidence. Their goal was to search for land and resources especially gold that could be exploited by the company. The fifteenth of June have arrived Nockhoda Tingall … told me that the Flemmings Pinnasse which went upon discovery for Nova Ginny, was returned to Banda, having found the iland: but in sending their men on shoare to intreate of Trade, there were nine of them killed … so they were constrained to returne, finding no good to be done there.

This map is an extremely accurate charting of the west coast of Cape York created by the crew of the Duyfken. The map shows where the crew made landfall along the coast, and where they decided to turn around and return to Banda after some of them were killed in a skirmish with the Wik people.

The exploratory voyage of the Duyfken was considered unsuccessful by the VOC as no peaceful trade relationships were established with local populations and no easily exploitable resources were found. The VOC saw no reason to continue to take an interest in the area. During the early s a number of other VOC ships, like the Eendracht captained by Dirk Hartog, had accidental contact with Australia.

Any assessments made of the potential value of the continent were similar to the report of the Duyfken, and early Dutch exploration and mapping of Australia continued mainly as a way to mitigate the risk posed by Australia as a vast shipping hazard. After its journey the Duyfken remained in the East Indies running supplies and transporting goods between ports for the VOC. In late , the ship was beached on Ternate Island in the Moluccas to investigate leaks.

Deemed to be beyond repair, it was abandoned. A massive area of coral reefs, that Janszoon marked on the map as Vuyle Bazncken, prevented the Duyfken from sailing further north towards New Guinea. The journey of discovery was over as the captain turned the Duyfken west and headed back to Banda.

It would take another years before Lieutenant James Cook would round Cape York Peninsula from east to west , providing conclusive evidence that the unknown south land — by that time named New Holland by the Dutch — was separated from New Guinea and was, indeed, a continent.

In , he was sent from Bantam in the East Indies now Indonesia to see what he could find around the coasts and islands of New Guinea, a land that was supposed to be very rich in gold. Janszoon then traveled alongside the western coast of Cape York, and landed near the modern town Weipa. He continued to chart the coastline for another km believing that this land was part of New Guinea, since he did not know about the Torres Strait.