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Willem Schouten: In , Dutch navigator Willem Schouten became the first to sail around Cape Horn and through the Drake Passage, pioneering..
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Dutch navigator (c. 1567–1625)
Willem Cornelisz Schouten (c. 1567 – 1625) was a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific Ocean.
Biography
Willem Cornelisz Schouten was born in c.
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1567 in Hoorn, Holland, Seventeen Provinces.
In april 1601 Willem Schouten was skipper of the Duyfken in the 'Moluccan fleet' of Wolfert Hermansz, and participated in the Battle of Bantam.[1]
On July 1, 1615 Willem Schouten and his younger brother Jan Schouten sailed from Texel in the Netherlands, in an expedition led by Jacob Le Maire and sponsored by Isaac Le Maire and his Australische Compagnie in equal shares with Schouten.
The expedition consisted of two ships: Eendracht and Hoorn.[2] A main purpose of the voyage was to search for Terra Australis. A further objective was to explore a western route to the Pacific Ocean to evade the trade restrictions of the Dutch East In