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People: Willem Janszoon
Topic: Western Art: 1468 to 1480
Location: Como Lombardia Italy

Willem Janszoon

Dutch navigator and colonial governor
Years: 1570 - 1630

Willem Janszoon (c. 1570–1630), Dutch navigator and colonial governor, is the first European known to have seen the coast of Australia.

His name is sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz.

(with or without the full stop).

He was probably born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.