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Jan Carstenszoon

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at the mouth of a small river near Cape Duyfken (named after Janszoon's vessel which had earlier visited the region) and landed at the
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inhabitants. Carstenszoon described them as "poor and miserable looking people" who had "no knowledge of
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and beyond, to follow up the reports of land sighted further south in the 1606 voyages of
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On 8 May 1623, Carstenszoon and his crew fought a skirmish with 200
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for his stores, Carstenszoon encountered a party of the local
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crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria, sighting the east coast of
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ending in -szoon were almost universally abbreviated to -sz
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17th century Dutch explorer of New Guinea and Australia
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Index

Dutch
explorer
Dutch East India Company
expedition
New Guinea
Willem Janszoon
Duyfken
Ambon
Dutch East Indies
ships
yacht
Willem Joosten van Colster
Cape York Peninsula
Gulf of Carpentaria
water
indigenous Australian
precious metals
spices
Aboriginal people
Pennefather River
Carpentier River
Gulf of Carpentaria
Pieter de Carpentier
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Staaten River
Arnhem Land
Carstensz Pyramid
Irian Jaya
Indonesia
glaciers

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