The description was published by George Don using Brown's name Nuytsia, an epithet that commemorates the seventeenth-century Dutch explorer and colonial official Pieter Nuyts.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Pieter Brueghel | Pieter Mulier II | Pieter Hintjens | Pieter Wispelwey | Pieter Willem Korthals | Pieter Vreede | Pieter van Vollenhoven | Pieter van Musschenbroek | Pieter Vanderlyn | Pieter Teyler van der Hulst | Pieter Snapper | Pieter Rossouw | Pieter Langendijk | Pieter Kasteleyn | Pieter Hugo | Pieter Feith | Pieter de Ring | Pieter de Hooch | Pieter Bourke | Pieter Bleeker | Pieter Aertsen | Pieter Zeeman | Pieter van der Hulst | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Pieter Seelaar | Pieter Rijke | Pieter Paulus | Pieter Nuyts | Pieter Nooten |
Thijssen named the discovered land after Pieter Nuyts, a high employee of the Dutch East India Company, who was aboard ship as a passenger.