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Most about opening of Australia the world is obliged by detailed data to the main cartographer of East Indian company Hasselju Gerritsu (Herritsu), holding this post with 1617 for 1632. Using records of logbooks, cards and drawings of seafarers, Gerrits specified cards existing at that time. Executed by it on parchment in 1622 the card of Indian ocean stored nowadays in the State library in Berlin, has fixed for the first time opening Dirka Hartoga. In a southeast part of this card the western coast of Australia with an inscription is put: Â" Spot-check Dirka Hartoga Â". The East Indian company delala.vse possible that cards of New Holland have not come into the hands of competitors but to keep as fiduciary confidential cards with a designation of last opening it was not possible. On the card of the world which has been let out in 1695, Iodokus Hondikus has specified the opening of Dutches put on card Hasselja Gerritsa. Its single copy is stored in a private collection in Vienna and represents the first card of the world made litografskim in the way. And the oldest globe which can be seen now in National library of Paris and on which the western coast of Australia for the first time is put, is created by Dutch Arnold van Langrenom. These cartographers have continued remarkable traditions for ever the Netherlands scientists who have become history to world cartography and cartographers-publishers Blau Willem and his son Yana who was letting out heavenly and geographical globes, and also multivolume, translated on many languages, the most perfect atlases on those times.
Many Dutch seafarers took part In research of Australia. All of them started with a false parcel, that the Southern continent occupies the hemisphere most part that is why accepted open New Holland for a huge northwest ledge of this continent. Only Abel JAnszon Tasman, the glorified Netherlands researcher and the great pioneer, during expedition of 1642-1644 could prove at last, that all earths opened by its compatriots, are parts of uniform continent. A.Tasman was the first who has rounded Australia,
Having opened Earth Van-Dimena (named later his name - island Tasmania), New Zealand, and also Tonga Islands, Fidji, Three-kings. A.Tasmana's by name are named having filled in at coast of New Zealand and the sea between it and Australia.
Almost deserted, mostly the deserted earths have seemed to Dutches unattractive, poor, natives-too aggressive. Probably, therefore they were limited only to ascertaining of these opening and have not started colonisation of new continent. But emptiness in the nature does not happen. After other great traveller - Englishman James Cook (1728-1779) - surveys these earths more carefully. Englishmen declare continent the property and will erase on cards its former name. New Holland will not exist any more, but there will be many other Dutch names, and first of all New Zealand - the whole country named in honour of tiny in comparison with it of a province, a part of the Netherlands and until now.
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