Misplaced Pages

#89910

15-621: The captain was François Thijssen . The Gulden Zeepaert sailed from the Netherlands on 22 May 1626, under the command of Francois Thijssen (sometimes recorded as Thijszoon or 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

30-591: A US$ 1 billion Medical SEZ, coming up in nearby Elavur, land prices in the area are rising. The Portuguese established a trading post in Pulicat in 1502 with the help of the Vijayanagar rulers . They built a fort there and held this fort until 1609 when they were defeated by the Dutch. The Dutch occupied Pulicat fort in 1609. Between 1621 and 1665, 131 slave ships were deployed by the Dutch to export 38,441 Indians captured on

45-530: A brief reference to the voyage in the Daily Register at Batavia for 1627, and in instructions to Gerrit Thomaszoon Pool in 1636 and Abel Tasman in 1644. The 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 the Leeuwin which sighted and named Cape Leeuwin in 1622. According to

60-599: Is a historic seashore town in Chennai Metropolitan Area at Thiruvallur District , of Tamil Nadu state , India . It is about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Chennai and 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Elavur, on the southern periphery of the Pulicat Lake . Pulicat lake is a shallow salt water lagoon which stretches about 60 kilometres (37 mi) along the coast. With lakeside and seashore development as well as several Special Economic Zones (SEZs) including

75-491: Is rather dilapidated today, and the Dutch fort has fallen into ruin. The old lighthouse still stands at the opposite bank of the lake. The cemetery dating to 1622 has been taken under the wing of the Archaeological Survey of India and so has survived the passage of time. The grand, Dutch-inscribed tombs and graves, carved with skeletons rather than the cross, have been quite well preserved. The cemetery lies behind

90-532: Is unclear if François Thijssen was its captain at the time. In his 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels , Jonathan Swift placed Lilliput and Blefuscu near the unimaginably remote Nuyts Archipelago , a hundred years after their discovery. South Australia was not visited again by Europeans for 165 years, when in 1792 the French explorer Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux searched there for his lost compatriot La Pérouse . Pulicat Pulicat or Pazhaverkadu

105-639: The Coromandel coast and transported from Pulicat to be sold as slaves to Dutch plantations in Batavia . Pulicat was till 1690 the capital of Dutch Coromandel . It repeatedly changed possession, until finally occupied by the British in 1825. It became part of the Madras Presidency , which later became Madras state in independent India and renamed Tamil Nadu in 1968. The Dutch church has been built over several times and

120-657: The Indies and " New Holland ". This voyage defined most of the southern coast of Australia and discouraged the notion that New Holland, as it was then known, was linked to Antarctica . Much later, Thijssen's findings led Jean-Pierre Pury to propose a Dutch colony on the mainland there in 1717–18. Thijssen took the Gulden Zeepaerdt back to Middelburg in 1629–1630. He was captain on the ship Valk which sailed in 1636 from Zeeland to Batavia. Later, this ship perished near Pulicat in southeast India on 13 October 1638, though it

135-834: The Landings List compiled by the Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society , the Gulden Zeepaert was the 13th recorded European contact with Australia. Fran%C3%A7ois Thijssen François Thijssen or Frans Thijsz (died 13 October 1638?) was a Dutch - French explorer who explored the southern coast of Australia . He was the captain of the ship ' t Gulden Zeepaerdt ( The Golden Seahorse ) when sailing from Cape of Good Hope to Batavia . On this voyage, he ended up too far to

150-655: The Southland 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 1,800 kilometres (1,100 mi). They reached St Francis and St Peter Islands in what is now known as the Nuyts Archipelago, off Ceduna in South Australia. Thijssen mapped

165-489: The coastline around Fowlers Bay . 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). The South Australian coast has also been recognized as a point of contact. What transpired during this part of the voyage is not known in detail as no log survives. The principal evidence consists of contemporary maps,

SECTION 10

#1732845136090

180-615: The islands St Francis and St Peter, now known collectively with their respective groups as the Nuyts Archipelago . He also mapped the coastline around Fowlers Bay . The ship, which had been built in Middelburg and left Zeeland on 22 May 1626, finally arrived in Batavia on 10 April 1627. Thijssen's observations were included as soon as 1628 by the VOC cartographer Hessel Gerritsz in a chart of

195-447: The market. Aadhi Narayana Perumal temple is an old temple located at Pazhaverkadu. Pulicat-Day is celebrated on World Wetland Day (2 February) at Pulicat by AARDE Foundation. Famous traditional catamaran competition and several competitions are held on this day. Small information center (Pulicat Museum) at Pazhaverkadu gives detailed information on Pulicat ecology and built heritage. Fort Geldria or Fort Geldaria, located in Pulicat,

210-409: The south and on 26 January 1627 he came upon the coast of Australia, near Cape Leeuwin , the south-westernmost tip of the continent. Thijssen continued to sail eastwards, mapping more than 1,500 kilometres (930 mi) of Australia's coast. He called the land ' t Land van Pieter Nuyts ( The Land of Pieter Nuyts ), referring to the highest VOC official aboard his ship. Part of Thijssen's map shows

225-645: Was the seat of the Dutch Republic 's first settlement in India , and the capital of Dutch Coromandel . It was built by the Dutch East India Company in 1613 and became the local governmental centre in 1616. It was named for Geldria , the native province of Wemmer van Berchem, the General Director of the company. Regularly protected by a garrison of 80 to 90 men, Fort Geldria was the only fortification in

#89910