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In 1624, the ship Nieu Nederlandt (New Netherland) put in at the island, under the command of Cornelis Jacobsz May. May's passengers comprised a group of 30 families from an area of the Low Countries or Spanish Netherlands called Wallonia. The Netherlands was in the midst of a long war with Spain, and at the time Wallonia was under Spanish rule.
New Holland. Map of New Holland made by Joan Blaeu in 1659. New Holland was a nominal Dutch claim over western Australia. Although no formal colonization attempt was ever made, many places along the northwest coast retain Dutch names. Numerous Dutch ships on their way to the Dutch East Indies such as the Batavia were wrecked off the coast.
Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java .
Arrival of Abel Tasman in Tongatapu, 1643, drawing by Isaack Gilsemans. They discovered Tonga on 21 April 1616 and the Hoorn Islands on 28 April 1616. They discovered New Ireland around May–July 1616. They discovered the Schouten Islands (also known as Biak Islands or Geelvink Islands) on 24 July 1616.
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Sep 8, 2014 · 5. The Dutch gave up the colony without a fight. At its peak, only about 9,000 people lived in New Netherland, leaving it vulnerable to attack from the English, who fought three wars against the ...
Adriaen van der Donck. Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck ( c. 1618 – 1655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific Jonkheer the city of Yonkers, New York, is named. Although he was not, as sometimes claimed, the first lawyer in the Dutch colony (an 'honor' that befell the lesser-known Lubbert Dinclagen who arrived ...
