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Jan Carstenszoon

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Jan Carstenszoon or more commonly Jan Carstensz was a 17th-century Dutch explorer. In 1623, Carstenszoon was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to lead an expedition to the southern coast of New Guinea and beyond, to follow up the reports of land sighted further south in the 1606 voyages of Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken. Setting sail from Ambon in the Dutch East Indies with two ships, the yacht Pera (captained by Carstenszoon) and Arnhem (captained by Willem Joosten van Colster), the ships travelled along the south coast of New Guinea, then headed south to Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf of Carpentaria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Carstenszoon has received more than 57,267 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Carstenszoon is the 472nd most popular explorer, the 5,472nd most popular biography from Germany and the 28th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jan Carstenszoon ranks 472 out of 498. Before him are Ranulph Fiennes, Henry Robertson Bowers, Nain Singh, Tom Crean, Oscar Baumann, and George Grey. After him are Hubert Wilkins, Tryggve Gran, Adolphus Greely, Wiley Post, Elisha Kent Kane, and Samuel Hearne.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jan Carstenszoon ranks 5,472 out of 7,253. Before him are Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (1974), Stefan Ortega (1992), Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (1967), Herbert Knaup (1956), Andrew Sachs (1930), and Daniel Kehlmann (1975). After him are Willi Giesemann (1937), Katrin Göring-Eckardt (1966), Georg Volkert (1945), Julia Fischer (1983), Hedwig Kohn (1887), and Volker Bruch (1980).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Jan Carstenszoon ranks 28. Before him are Albert von Le Coq (1860), Theodor von Heuglin (1824), Johannes Rebmann (1820), Carl Koldewey (1837), Karl Mauch (1837), and Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810).

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