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3 unusual facts about Pieter de Carpentier


Johannes Klencke

Ernst van Klenck, a merchant on Russia, married in 1660 a daughter of Pieter de Carpentier.

Pieter de Carpentier

Two ships and a yacht being soon ready to sail, the senate sent them to Texel so as to lose no time.

When Jan Carstenszoon (or Carstensz) and Willem van Coolsteerdt landed the Pera and the Arnhem on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula of New Holland (now Australia) in 1623, after the first discovery by Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken in 1606, they then named the 'Gulf of Carpentaria' after the Governor-General, Pieter de Carpentier.



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