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Although Wilson acknowledges Cook was a tremendous seaman who made remarkable voyages and contributed greatly to the knowledge of the world, he feels the mythology has taken over. And as the 250th ...

NOW we know who to blame - or praise, rather - for all those boat people. The explorer who divulged the secret of Australia 400 years ago is being remembered in a voyage around the wide, brown land.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IN 1606 the Aboriginal people of Cape York watched in amazement as the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon stepped ashore from his tiny ...

Met de onthulling van een monument heeft Australië de eerste Europeaan herdacht die er voet aan wal zette. Het was de Nederlander Willem Janszoon, die in 1606 met het scheepje de Duyfken het uiterste ...