Gulden Zeepaert
{{Short description|Dutch East India Company ship}}
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{{lang |nl |Gulden Zeepaert}} ({{lit |Golden Seahorse}}) was a ship belonging to the Dutch East India Company. It sailed along the south coast of Australia from Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia to the Nuyts Archipelago in South Australia early in 1627.Chris Halls, [https://books.google.com/books?id=t7pTtwAACAAJ The voyage of the Golden Zeepaard]. (South Australia, 1971).Proceedings of the Royal Geographic Society of Australasia, SA Branch, vol. 72 (1971), p. 19-32.[https://www.vocsite.nl/schepen/ Data on trips of the VOC ships Gulden Zeepaard and Valk].Michael Pearson Great Southern Land. The maritime explorations of Terra Australis (2005) (published by the Australian government department of the environment and heritage)
The captain was François Thijssen.Rees D. Barrett, Significant People in Australia's History, [https://books.google.com/books?id=t6SBq6rU_owC&dq=The+Golden+Zeepaard&pg=PT11 Issue 2] (Macmillan Education AU, 2009)
Details of the voyage
On 22 May 1626 {{lang |nl |Gulden Zeepaert}} sailed from the Netherlands under the command of Francois Thijssen (sometimes recorded as Thijszoon and Thyssen). Also on board was Pieter Nuyts, extraordinary member of the Dutch East India Company's Council of India, their executive body in the East Indies.
It appears that in January 1627 the vessel encountered Australia in the vicinity of Cape Leeuwin. Instead of turning north to make for Batavia, as required by Dutch ships of this period, following what is known as the Brouwer Route, it continued along the south coast of Australia for a distance of {{convert|1800|km}}. They reached St Francis and St Peter Islands in what is now known as the Nuyts Archipelago, off Ceduna in South Australia.{{cn |date=October 2021}} Thijssen mapped the coastline around Fowlers Bay.{{cite web | title=Fowlers Bay, South Australia | date=23 November 2007 | url=http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/Photos/2007-11-Perth/2007_11_23/index.php?image=100_1180.JPG | access-date=18 October 2021}} It has been assumed that one of the trees that was examined during the transit across the south coast of what is now Western Australia was the Christmas tree (Nuytsia floribunda).{{Citation | author1=Ryan, John C | title=Towards Intimate Relations: Gesture and Contact Between Plants and People | publication-date=2012 | publisher=PAN Partners | issn=1443-6124}} The South Australian coast has also been recognized as a point of contact.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129265631 |title=Early History of State |newspaper=The News |volume=XXVI |issue=3,938 |location=South Australia |date=5 March 1936 |accessdate=16 June 2023 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168244800 |title=Nuyts Tercentenary. |newspaper=West Coast Sentinel |volume=XIV |issue=774 |location=South Australia |date=3 June 1927 |accessdate=16 June 2023 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} What transpired during this part of the voyage is not known in detail as no log survives. The principal evidence consists of contemporary maps, a brief reference to the voyage in the daily register[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0501231h.html#doc-18 Daily Register]{{full citation needed |date=April 2025}} at Batavia for 1627,{{sfnp |Heeres |1899 |p=51 }} and in instructions to Gerrit Thomaszoon Pool in 1636 and Abel Tasman in 1644.
{{lang |nl |Gulden Zeepaert}} reached Batavia on 10 April 1627. Records indicate that 30 men died during the voyage. The region they encountered became known as Nuyts Land. Nuyts had also been on board {{ship||Leeuwin|1621|2}} which sighted and named Cape Leeuwin in 1622. According to the Landings List[http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au/landings-list/ Landings List] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110015041/http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au/landings-list |date=2013-11-10 }}{{full citation needed |date=April 2025}} compiled by the Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society, {{lang |nl |Gulden Zeepaert}} was the 13th recorded European contact with Australia.
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Further reading
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- {{cite book |editor1-last=Williams |editor1-first=Glyndwr |editor1-link=Glyndwr Williams |editor2-last=Frost |editor2-first=Alan |editor2-link=Alan Frost |year=1988 |title=Terra Australis to Australia |location=Melbourne |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=83–116 |isbn=0195549082 |lccn=89129161 |oclc=19240668 |ol=OL2252148M }}
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