Matthijs Hendrikszoon Quast (died 6 October 1641), anglicized as Matthys[1] and Matthew Quast, was a Dutch merchant and explorer in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Quast made several voyages on the VOC's behalf to Tokugawa Japan, the Qing Empire (China), and Ayutthaya Kingdom ("Siam")[2] but is primarily remembered for his failed 1639 expedition in search of the phantom islands of Rica de Oro and Rica de Plata previously reported by Spanish mariners. He is sometimes credited with the first recorded discovery of the Bonin Islands during the voyage, although the VOC did nothing with the information and they remained unimportant and sparsely settled until the 19th century.
Matthijs Hendrikszoon Quast (died 6 October 1641), anglicized as Matthys and Matthew Quast, was a Dutch merchant and explorer in the service of the Dutch...
with the name include: Matthijs/Matthys Matthijs Accama (1702–1783), Dutch painter Matthijs Balen (1684–1766), Dutch painter Matthijs van den Bergh (1618–1687)...
1970), Boxer from Germany John Quast (1900–1966), American football end MatthijsQuast (died 1641), Dutch explorer Pieter Quast (1605-06–1647), Dutch Golden...
Within Temptation Roel van Velzen (born 1978), singer Matthijs Vermeulen (1888–1967), composer Matthijs Verschoor (born 1955), classical pianist Tijs Verwest...
expedition sent in search of the phantom Islands of Gold and Silver under MatthijsQuast and his lieutenant Abel Tasman. A Japanese merchant ship carrying mikan...
had discovered, after a failed expedition in 1639 under command of MatthijsQuast. The two ships, the Castricum under De Vries and the Breskens under...
second-in-command of a 1639 expedition of exploration into the north Pacific under MatthijsQuast. The fleet included the ships Engel and Gracht and reached Fort Zeelandia...
1487) 1640 – Wolrad IV, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (b. 1588) 1641 – MatthijsQuast, Dutch explorer 1644 – Elisabeth of France, queen of Spain and Portugal...
way to Batavia. After their arrival, an expedition under command of MatthijsQuast was outfitted to search the gold and silver islands, but was unsuccessful...
Nagasaki in 1609 and monopolized the Japan trade from 1639. In 1639 MatthijsQuast and Abel Tasman searched the empty ocean east of Japan looking for two...
of Dutch Malacca (January 1641) and married in Batavia the widow of MatthijsQuast. As a sergeant major, Johannes was stationed in Dutch Formosa (September...
with Richard Roxburgh as Estragon, Hugo Weaving as Vladimir, and Philip Quast as Pozzo, directed by Andrew Upton. In November 2018, the Druid Theater...
Tamahori (director); Michael Thomas (screenplay); Dominic Cooper, Philip Quast, Mem Ferda, Dar Salim, Jamie Harding, Ludivine Sagnier, Mimoun Oaïssa, Akin...
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