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Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 – 22 December 1616) was a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the Earth in 1615 and 1616. The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honour, though not without controversy.
- 22 December 1616
- mariner
- circumnavigation
Jacques Le Maire, 1585–1616 / Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, d. 1625. Expedition (1615–1617): Two ships (Eendracht and Hoorn), 87 men Charge (by Le Maire’s father’s Australian Company): To find a new route to the Pacific and the Spice Islands to avoid the trading monopoly of the Dutch East India Company and to find the Southern Continent (Terra Australis)
In June 1615, Dutch navigators Jacob Le Maire (circa 1585--1616) and Willem Corneliszoon Schouten (circa 1567--1625) set out in two ships, the Eendracht and the Hoorn, from the Dutch port of Texel. Their goal was to find a new route to the Moluccas Islands, Europe's main source of pepper in the lucrative spice trade with the East Indies, and in so doing avoid the trade monopoly of the Dutch ...
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Other articles where Jakob Le Maire is discussed: Willem Schouten: …1615, an Amsterdam merchant, Isaac Le Maire, mounted an expedition to find a new route to the Pacific. His son Jakob and veteran sea captain Schouten led the voyage that set sail in May 1615 with two ships—the second piloted by Schouten’s brother Jan. By December they reached the far…
The expedition was led by Willem Cornelisz. Schouten and Jacob le Maire, son of Isaac le Maire who had a large hand in financing the expedition. The Eendracht and Hoorn departed on 14 June 1615 from Texel. The ships first sailed to the western coast of Africa and then followed the winds and currents to South America.
Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 – 22 December 1616) was a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the Earth in 1615 and 1616. The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honour, though not without controversy. It was Le Maire himself who proposed to the council aboard Eendracht that the new passage ...
Edward Duyker (ed.) Mirror of the Australian Navigation by Jacob Le Maire: A Facsimile of the 'Spieghel der Australische Navigatie ...' Being an Account of the Voyage of Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten 1615–1616 published in Amsterdam in 1622, Hordern House for the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 1999, pp. 202, ISBN 1-875567-25-9.
