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Willem Janszoon was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Janszoon served in the Netherlands East Indies in the periods —11 and —16, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor.

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He was the first European to see the coast of Australia during his around-the-world voyage of - Janszoon sailed to the East Indies three times, and on the third trip, he was named captain of the Duyfken. Janszoon then crossed the eastern end of the Arafura Sea, without seeing the Torres Strait, into the Gulf of Carpentaria. On February 26, , he made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland, near the town of Weipa.

This is the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent. Janszoon proceeded to chart some km of the coastline, which he thought was a southerly extension of New Guinea. Finding the land swampy and the people unfriendly ten of his men were killed on various shore expeditions at Cape Keerweer "Turnabout" , south of Albatross Bay, Willem Janszoon decided to return and arrived at Bantam in June He called the land he had discovered "Nieu Zeland," after the Dutch province of Zeeland, but the name was not adopted and was later used by Abel Tasman for New Zealand.

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In , Janszoon returned to the Netherlands believing that the south coast of New Guinea was joined to the land along which he sailed, and Dutch maps reproduced this error for many years. Though there have been suggestions that earlier navigators from China, France, or Portugal may have discovered parts of Australia, the Duyfken is the first European vessel definitely known to have done so.

This is generally interpreted as a description of the peninsula from Point Cloates. Janszoon arrived back in the Netherlands in approximately and was appointed as a member of the Council of the Indies. In , he was one of the negotiators with the English. In a combined fleet, they sailed to Manilla to prevent Chinese merchants from dealing with the Spanish.

Janszoon became vice-admiral in the year after admiral.