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Updated: May 22, 2025
Think of Flinders, in the old INVESTIGATOR, as he. sailed from group to group of islands, and from point to point of reefs; when he got at last through Torres Straits, and stood down the Gulf, looking up the old land marks of the early Dutch visitors to our shores Duyfhen Point, the Van Alphen River, GROOTE EYLANDT, and the rest names still preserved, that bear witness to the brave old navigator who visited these shores before we did.
This last name was shortened by another discoverer Flinders to the present term Australia. The Duyfhen.# De Quiros and Torres were Spaniards, but the Dutch also displayed much anxiety to reach the great South Continent. From their colony at Java they sent out a small vessel, the Duyfhen, or Dove, which sailed into the Gulf of Carpentaria, and passed half-way down along its eastern side.
In 1606 the yacht DUYFHEN sailed from Bantam, and, coasting along the south-west shore of New Guinea, her commander unknowingly crossed the entrance of Torres Straits, and continued his voyage along the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, under the impression that it was part of the same country.
They described it as being "for the greatest part desert, but in some places inhabited by wild, cruel, black savages, by whom some of the crew were murdered, for which reason they could not learn anything of the land or waters as had been desired of them." The name of the captain of the DUYFHEN the Columbus of the south has not been preserved.
One point, the most remarkable on the coast, and which Yet was not in the Dutch chart, Flinders named "Duyfhen Point," and another, he called "Pera Head," after the second yacht that entered the Gulf. At Cape Keer-Weer he fairly gives in that he could see nothing approaching a cape, but a slight projection being visible from the mast-head, out of respect to antiquity, he puts it down on his map.
Crossing the head of the Gulf she followed the course of the DUYFHEN, and passing Cape Keer-Weer, made as far south as 17 degrees, where the Staaten River is laid down.
Captain Cook compared to former Visitors Point Hicks Botany Bay-First natives seen Indifference to Overtures Abundant flora Entrance to Port Jackson missed ENDEAVOUR on a reef Careened Strange animals Hostile natives A sailor's devil Possession Island-Territory of New South Wales Torres Straits a passage La Perouse Probable fate discovered by Captain Dillon M'Cluer touches Arnheim's Land Bligh and Portlock Wreck of the PANDORA Vancouver in the south The D'Entrecasteaux quest Recherche Archipelago Bass and Flinders Navigation and exploration extraordinary The TOM THUMB Bass explores south Flinders in the Great Bight Bass's Straits Flinders in the INVESTIGATOR Special instructions King George's Sound Lossof boat's crew Memory Cove Baudin's courtesy Port Phillip INVESTIGATOR and LADY NELSON on East Coast The Gulf of Carpentaria and early Dutch navigators Duyfhen Point Cape Keer-Weer Mythical rivers charted Difficulty in recognising their landmarks Flinders' great disappointment A rotten ship Return by way of West Coast Cape Vanderlin Dutch Charts Malay proas, Pobassoo Return to Port Jackson Wreck of the PORPOISE Prisoner by the French General de Caen Private papers and journals appropriated Prepares his charts and logs for press Death Sympathy by strangers Forgotten by Australia The fate of Bass Mysterious disappearance Supposed Death.
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