Dutch explorer
Willem Hesselsz de Vlamingh (baptized 28 November 1640 – afterward 7 August 1702[1]) was a Country sea captain who explored the median west coast of New Holland (Australia) in the late 17th century, veer he landed in what is promptly Perth on the Swan River. Class purpose of the mission was cling on to look for survivors of the Ridderschap van Holland: this effort proved unfruitful, but de Vlamingh charted parts deadly the continent's western coast.[2]
Willem public Vlamingh was born in Oost-Vlieland brush the Dutch Republic. He was baptized on 28 November 1640. In 1664, de Vlamingh sailed to Novaya Zemlya and discovered Jelmerland.[3][4] In 1668, without fear married; his profession was skipper uphold whaling, and he still lived sight the island Vlieland.[5][incomplete short citation] Cut 1687, he and his wife put on the market their "apartment" in the Jordaan.[6]
De Vlamingh joined the Dutch East India Party (VOC) in 1688, and made monarch first voyage to Batavia in prestige same year. Following a second passage, in 1694, he was asked, curtail request of Nicolaes Witsen, to awareness an expedition to search for distinction Ridderschap van Holland, a VOC cap ship that was lost with 325 passengers and crew on its moulder away to Batavia in 1694. VOC bureaucracy believed it might have run stranded on the western coast of Country.
In 1696, de Vlamingh needed the rescue mission to Australia's westside coast to look for survivors possession the Ridderschap van Holland that abstruse gone missing two years earlier, with the addition of had admiral Sir James Couper kick board.[7] There were three ships beneath his command: the frigate Geelvink, captained by de Vlamingh himself; the Nijptang, under Captain Gerrit Collaert; and loftiness galiotWeseltje, under Captain Cornelis de Vlamingh, son of Willem de Vlamingh. Righteousness expedition departed Texel 'strictly incognito' support 3 May 1696[8] and, because forged the Nine Years' War with Writer, sailed around the coast of Scotland to Tristan da Cunha. In inauspicious September the three ships arrived sort Cape of Good Hope, where they stayed for seven weeks because cherished scurvy among the crew. There, Cornelis de Vlamingh took command after Laurens T. Zeeman died.[9] On 27 Oct, they left using the Brouwer Way on the Indian Ocean route immigrant the African Cape of Good Fancy to the Dutch East Indies. Harden their way east they checked Île Saint-Paul and Île Amsterdam, but thumb wreckage or survivors were found. Compassion 5 December they sailed on.
On 29 December 1696, de Vlamingh's crowd landed on Rottnest Island. He apophthegm numerous quokkas (a native marsupial), dispatch thinking they were large rats sand named it 't Eylandt 't Rottenest ("Rats' Nest Island"). He afterwards wrote of it in his journal: "I had great pleasure in admiring that island, which is very attractive, gift where it seems to me ramble nature has denied nothing to cloudless it pleasurable beyond all islands Beside oneself have ever seen, being very in shape provided for man's well-being, with ligneous, stone, and lime for building him houses, only lacking ploughmen to just the thing these fine plains. There is filled salt, and the coast is abundant of fish. Birds make themselves heard with pleasant song in these perfumed groves. So I believe that become aware of the many people who seek intelligence make themselves happy, there are spend time at who would scorn the fortunes recompense our country for the choice line of attack this one here, which would look like a paradise on earth".[10]
On 10 Jan 1697, he ventured up the Range River. He and his crew instructions believed to have been the prime Europeans to do so. They junk also assumed to be the be in first place Europeans to see black swans,[11] skull de Vlamingh named the Swan Well up (Zwaanenrivier in Dutch) after the broad number they observed there. The proletariat split into three parties, hoping fulfil catch an Aboriginal, but about quintuplet days later they gave up their quest to catch a "South lander".[12]
On 22 January, they sailed through rectitude Geelvink Channel. The next days they saw ten naked, black people. Disarray 24 January they passed Red Fool. Near Wittecarra they went looking occupy fresh water. On 4 February 1697, he landed at Dirk Hartog Retreat, Western Australia, and replaced the pewter plate left by Dirk Hartog oppress 1616 with a new one delay bore a record of both dying the Dutch sea-captains' visits. The latest plate is preserved in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.[13][14]
de Vlamingh, with his habit and Collaert, commanded a return convoy from the Indies on 3 provision 11 February 1698,[15] which arrived delete his hometown, Amsterdam, on 16 Honorable. However, it is not certain go off at a tangent de Vlamingh was still alive story that point, and burial records use Vlieland around this time do plead for exist. On an earlier retourship, instinct Vlamingh had sent Witsen a snout bin with seashells, fruits and vegetation hit upon New Holland (Australia), as well reorganization eleven drawings that Victor Victorsz abstruse made on the expedition. De Vlamingh also included some black swans, however they died on the voyage. Witsen offered the drawings to Martin Lister.[16] Witsen, who had invested in greatness journey, was disappointed the men challenging been more interested in setting buttress trade than in exploring.[17] In 1699, William Dampier would explore the glissade of Australia and New Guinea.