Duyfken Point is a point in the locality of Mission River, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia (12°34′20″S141°36′05″E / 12.5722°S 141.6014°E / -12.5722; 141.6014 (Duyfken Point)).[1]
^"Duyfken Point – point in Cook Shire (entry 10966)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
5722; 141.6014 (DuyfkenPoint)). DuyfkenPoint is on the western coast of Cape York Peninsula on the Gulf of Carpentaria. DuyfkenPoint was named by Matthew...
Carpentaria. Weipa is just south of DuyfkenPoint, which was named by Matthew Flinders on 8 November 1802 after the ship Duyfken commanded by the Dutch explorer...
the mouth of the Mission River north to Pennefather River and west to DuyfkenPoint. It is unknown when it became extinct. The name Anguthimri is not a...
York. The traditional language region includes north of Mapoon and DuyfkenPoint and east of the coast strip to the north of Port Musgrave (Angkamuthi...
thousands of years. In 1606, Dutch sailor Willem Janszoon on board the Duyfken was the first European to land in Australia, reaching the Cape York Peninsula...
1606 voyage have been lost. The Duyfken chart, which shows the location of the first landfall in Australia by the Duyfken, had a better fate. It was still...
Peninsula. The traditional language region includes north of Mapoon and DuyfkenPoint and east of the coast strip to the north of Port Musgrave (Angkamuthi...
Peninsula. The traditional language region includes north of Mapoon and DuyfkenPoint and east of the coast strip to the north of Port Musgrave (Angkamuthi...
later explorers or colonists in honour of the Dutch. These include: DuyfkenPoint - 12°34′S 141°35′E / 12.567°S 141.583°E / -12.567; 141.583 near Weipa...
on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. Their territory extended as far as DuyfkenPoint and included the Pennefather River district between Port Musgrave and...
Peninsula. The traditional language region includes north of Mapoon and DuyfkenPoint and east of the coast strip to the north of Port Musgrave (Angkamuthi...
territory covered some 1,100 square miles (2,800 km2) in the area east of DuyfkenPoint over to the Archer River. Their inland extension reached to the headwaters...
second group of Europeans known to have visited Australia. (The crew of the Duyfken, under Willem Janszoon, had visited Cape York in 1606). The area was given...
April 1623, they sailed past Cape Keerweer, the most southerly point reached by the Duyfken. Landing in search of fresh water for his stores, Carstenszoon...
late February 1606, by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon aboard the Duyfken. Janszoon charted the Australian coast and met with Aboriginal people....
to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken, captained by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of...
exists, it lacks definitive evidence. The Dutch East India Company ship, Duyfken, captained by Willem Janszoon, made the first documented European landing...
Date Event 1606 February/March The Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Duyfken, under Captain Willem Janszoon, explored the western coast of Cape York...
Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch East India Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia...
Janszoon sailed from the East Indies in the Dutch East India Company ship Duyfken and landed in Australia. He charted about 300 km of the west coast of Cape...
East Indies for the third time on December 18, 1603, as captain of the Duyfken (or Duijfken, meaning "Little Dove"), one of twelve ships of the great...
The First Discovery of Australia With an account of the Voyage of the "Duyfken" and the Career of Captain Willem Jansz, Sydney, 1942, pp. 25–26. Wikimedia...
shipping later that month, and passengers began disembarking the next. At this point the site was known as The Port Creek Settlement. When founded, the port's...
The First Discovery of Australia With an account of the Voyage of the "Duyfken" and the Career of Captain Willem Jansz. Sydney. Retrieved 26 December...
to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of...
northern coast of Australia near Papua New Guinea by Willem Janszoon on Duyfken is credited as being the first Australian visit by European explorers.)...
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