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Willem de Vlamingh

1640 - 1698

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Willem Hesselsz de Vlamingh (28 November 1640 – after 7 August 1702) was a Dutch sea captain who explored the central west coast of New Holland (Australia) in the late 17th century, where he landed in what is now Perth on the Swan River. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem de Vlamingh has received more than 156,731 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Willem de Vlamingh is the 262nd most popular explorer (up from 271st in 2019), the 461st most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 444th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Dutch Explorer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Willem de Vlamingh ranks 262 out of 405. Before him are Estêvão Gomes, Paweł Strzelecki, Eusebio Kino, Roy Chapman Andrews, Ippolito Rosellini, and Ludwig Leichhardt. After him are William Clark, Nikolai Spathari, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Aleksei Chirikov, Richard Chancellor, and Juan Fernández.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Willem de Vlamingh ranks 16. Before him are Aphra Behn, Philippe de La Hire, Antoine Coysevox, Abraham Mignon, Mariana Alcoforado, and Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. After him are Georg Mohr, Jacques Ozanam, Claude Fleury, Gerard de Lairesse, Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, and Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1698, Willem de Vlamingh ranks 8. Before him are Petro Doroshenko, Rasmus Bartholin, Frederick Casimir Kettler, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Gerrit Berckheyde, and Andrea Guarneri. After him are Balthasar Bekker, John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, and Louis de Buade de Frontenac.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem de Vlamingh ranks 461 out of 1,427. Before him are Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581), Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs (1923), Floor Jansen (1981), Carel Godin de Beaufort (1934), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), and Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845). After him are Virgil van Dijk (1991), Adrianus Johannes Simonis (1931), Pierre van Hooijdonk (1969), Ernesto Hoost (1965), Dirk Stikker (1897), and Willem Frederik Hermans (1921).

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Among EXPLORERS In Netherlands

Among explorers born in Netherlands, Willem de Vlamingh ranks 13. Before him are Frederick de Houtman (1571), Anthony van Diemen (1593), Cornelis de Houtman (1565), Olivier van Noort (1558), Jacob van Heemskerck (1567), and Alexandrine Tinné (1835). After him are Dirk Hartog (1580).

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