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Carstensz, Jan

LC control no.nb2023002277
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Personal name headingCarstensz, Jan
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Variant(s)Carstenszoon, Jan
Beginning date16
Associated countryNetherlands
Field of activityDiscovery and exploration
AffiliationNederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie
Profession or occupationExplorers
Found inTwee togten naar de Golf van Carpentaria, 1859: t.p. (J. Carstensz)
Wikipedia, viewed 9 Feb. 2023 (Jan Carstenszoon, or more commonly Jan Carstensz, was a 17th-century Dutch explorer. In 1623, Carstenszoon was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to lead an expedition to the southern coast of New Guinea and beyond, to follow up the reports of land sighted further south in the 1606 voyages of Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken.)
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