Editing History of Australia (section)

===Dutch discovery and exploration===
[[File:Australia discoveries by Europeans before 1813 en.png|thumb|Exploration by Europeans until 1812:

{{legend|#000000|1606 [[Willem Janszoon]]}}
{{legend|#ff9955|1606 [[Luis Vaez de Torres]]}}
{{legend|#39842c|1616 [[Dirk Hartog]]}}
{{legend|#ffd42a|1619 [[Frederick de Houtman]]}}
{{legend|#835b38|1644 [[Abel Tasman]]}}
{{legend|#516778|1696 [[Willem de Vlamingh]]}}
{{legend|#000080|1699 [[William Dampier]]}}
{{legend|#8000ff|1770 [[James Cook]]}}
{{legend|#0055d4|1797–99 [[George Bass]]}}
{{legend|#ff0000|1801–03 [[Matthew Flinders]]}}]]

[[File:Abel Tasman - Cuyp (cropped) (adjusted).jpg|thumb|left|[[Abel Tasman]], whose expedition of two ships was the first European expedition to discover [[Van Diemen's Land]], now known as [[Tasmania]]]]

The [[Dutch East India Company]] ship, {{lang |nl |[[Duyfken]]}}, captained by [[Willem Janszoon]], made the first documented European landing in Australia in 1606.<ref>J.P. Sigmond and L.H. Zuiderbaan (1979) ''Dutch Discoveries of Australia''. Rigby Ltd, Australia. pp. 19–30 {{ISBN|0-7270-0800-5}}</ref> Later that year, [[Luís Vaz de Torres]] sailed to the north of Australia through [[Torres Strait]], along New Guinea's southern coast.<ref>{{cite book|title=ADBonline.anu.edu.au|publisher=ADBonline.anu.edu.au|chapter=Torres, Luis Vaez de|access-date=14 July 2011|chapter-url=http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020488b.htm}}</ref>

In 1616, [[Dirk Hartog]], sailing off course, en route from the [[Cape of Good Hope]] to [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]], landed on an island off [[Shark Bay]], Western Australia.<ref name="Manning Clark p. 62">Manning Clark; A Short History of Australia; Penguin Books; 2006; p. 6</ref> In 1622–23 the ship [[Leeuwin (1621)|''Leeuwin'']] made the first recorded rounding of the southwest corner of the continent.<ref name="Interesting Historical Notes2">{{cite news|date=9 October 1923|title=Interesting Historical Notes|page=5|newspaper=[[The Mercury (Hobart)|The Mercury]]|via=National Library of Australia|location=Hobart, Tas.|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23673877|access-date=29 January 2012}}</ref>

In 1627, the south coast of Australia was discovered by [[François Thijssen]] and named after [[Pieter Nuyts]].<ref>{{cite news|date=24 May 1927|title=Nuyts Tercentenary.|page=11|newspaper=[[The Register (Adelaide)|The Register]]|via=National Library of Australia|location=Adelaide|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54272194|access-date=31 January 2012}}</ref> In 1628, a squadron of Dutch ships explored the northern coast particularly in the [[Gulf of Carpentaria]].<ref name="Interesting Historical Notes2" />

[[Abel Tasman]]'s voyage of 1642 was the first known European expedition to reach [[Van Diemen's Land]] (later Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight [[Fiji]]. On his second voyage of 1644, he also contributed significantly to the mapping of the Australian mainland (which he called ''[[New Holland (Australia)|New Holland]]''), making observations on the land and people of the north coast below New Guinea.<ref>* {{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Abel|Last=Tasman|shortlink=0-dict-biogT-V.html#tasman1}}
* [[Edward Duyker]] (ed.) The Discovery of Tasmania: Journal Extracts from the Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne 1642 & 1772, St David's Park Publishing/Tasmanian Government Printing Office, Hobart, 1992, p. 106, {{ISBN|0-7246-2241-1}}.</ref>

Following Tasman's voyages, the Dutch were able to make almost complete maps of Australia's northern and western coasts and much of its southern and south-eastern Tasmanian coasts''.''<ref>National Library of Australia, Maura O'Connor, Terry Birtles, Martin Woods and John Clark, ''Australia in Maps: Great Maps in Australia's History from the National Library's Collection'', Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2007, p. 32; this map is reproduced in Gunter Schilder, ''Australia Unveiled'', Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1976, p. 402; and in William Eisler and Bernard Smith, ''Terra Australis: The Furthest Shore'', Sydney, International Cultural Corporation of Australis, 1988, pp. 67–84. Image at: [http://www.bildindex.de/obj20516052.html# home]</ref>