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Pieter Nuyts

Dutch explorer

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exploration of South Australia

  • Australia
    In Australia: The Dutch

    Pieter Nuyts explored almost 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of the southern coast in 1626–27, and other Dutchmen added to knowledge of the north and west.

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  • South Australia
    In South Australia: The period before British colonization

    …captained by Francois Thyssen, conveyed Pieter Nuyts as far east as Fowler’s Bay in the Great Australian Bight. His reports were unfavourable, and almost two centuries passed before further information reached Europe. The entire coast was finally charted by Matthew Flinders in the Investigator early in 1802, a little before…

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