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The Duyfken had sailed from Bantam on November 18, 1605, to the coast of western New Guinea.
After coasting New Guinea for two hundred miles, Janszoon had crossed the eastern end of the Arafura Sea, without seeing the Torres Strait, into the Gulf of Carpentaria.
He makes landfall on February 26, 1606, at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland, near the modern town of Weipa.
This is the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent.
Janszoon proceeds to chart some three hundred and twenty kilometers of the coastline, which he thinks is a southerly extension of New Guinea.