Jakob Le Maire

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• association with Schouten
  • In Willem Schouten

    …1615, an Amsterdam merchant, Isaac Le Maire, mounted an expedition to find a new route to the Pacific. His son Jakob and veteran sea captain Schouten led the voyage that set sail in May 1615 with two ships—the second piloted by Schouten’s brother Jan. By December they reached the far…

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exploration of Pacific Islands

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  In Pacific Islands: The 16th and 17th centuries

  In 1615–16 the Dutch navigator Jakob Le Maire traveled from the east through the Tuamotus to Tonga and New Ireland and New Hanover in the Bismarck Archipelago. In 1642 Abel Janszoon Tasman, sailing from Batavia (now Jakarta), the Dutch headquarters in the East Indies, saw New Zealand, Tasmania, Tonga, some…

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• New Britain
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    In New Britain

    …1616 by the Dutch navigator Jakob Le Maire, who believed it was part of a landmass including New Guinea and New Ireland. His theory was disproved (1699–1700) by the Englishman William Dampier, who named the island, and Philip Carteret, who found St. George’s Channel (east) in 1767. As Neu-Pommern (New…

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