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A considerable amount of information about the VOC, its ships and the Dutch-Australian maritime connection is now available online. This includes primary sources (or rather their digital reproductions) as well as early history books, archaeological or historical databases, and other informative Web sites.
The nature of these sources varies widely from captains' journals and VOC correspondence to oral history accounts of Indigenous and Dutch Australians to scans of 17th century maps.
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Primary sources and their reproductions, and historical secondary sources |
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First contacts between Aboriginal people and Dutch explorers
Australia on the Map |
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In particular:
Cape York and Torres Strait 1606 to 1643
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Google Book Search
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In particular:
Ongeluckige voyagie, van't schip Batavia, nae Oost-Indien, uyt-gevaren onder de e. F. Pelsaert. Utrecht, Lucas de Vries (1649)
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Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 schedule 1 on the bilateral agreement between the Netherlands and Australia
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National Library of Australia |
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Rare Maps Digitisation Project
The National Library's digitised maps
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Project Gutenberg of Australia
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Of particular interest are:
Abel Tasman's 1642 journal
Voyage of Francis Pelsart to Australasia. 1628-29 (Batavia shipwreck) in: Pinkerton, John (1886) Early Australian voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier. Cassell & Company.
Voyages and journals of Dirk Hartog (1616), Willem Janszoon (1618), Carstenszoon (1623), the Batavia's shipwreck (1629), Abel Tasman journal (1642), the Vergulde Draeck shipwreck (1656), De Vlamingh's voyage (1696-1697) and the Zeewijk shipwreck (1727)
in: Heeres, J.E. (1899)The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765. Luzac and Co., London
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Dutch Australians at a Glance
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In particular:
Dutch Australian family stories
Virtual Exhibitions
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Archaeological and historical databases
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TANAP Archives (VOC): Database of VOC Documents |
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Western Australian Maritime Museum: Western Australian Shipwrecks Database |
Archaeological reports and articles
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Wreckfinder (Western Australian Maritime Museum) |
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The Zuytdorp survey and excavation reports 1987, 1990, 1990 and 1991
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Flinders Academic Commons (FAC) |
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In particular:
Batavia 1975 excavation report
Zeewijk 1976 archaeological survey report
Zeewijk 1979 archaeological survey report
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Informative Web sites as secondary sources
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Australia on the Map (Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society) |
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Bataviawerf in Lelystad |
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Duyfken 1606 Replica Foundation |
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Online Exhibition South Land to New Holland: Dutch Charting of Australia 1606 - 1756 (National Library of Australia)
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VOC shipwrecks |
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Wreckfinder (Western Australian Maritime Museum) |
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Batavia images from
Lucas de Vries, 1649,
Ongeluckige voyagie, van't schip Batavia, nae Oost-Indien, uyt-gevaren onder de e. F. Pelsaert.
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