Willem Schouten
Willem Cornelisz Schouten (1567? - 1625) was a navigator Dutch. (one finds also the orthography Cornelis and Schoutten).
In 1615, Willem Schouten and Jacob the Mayor left the port of Texel located at the Netherlands, with the orders of a forwarding of which the goal was to find a new sea route towards the Pacifique and the archipelago of the Moluques, in order to be able to circumvent the commercial restrictions imposed by the Compagnie Dutchwoman of the Eastern Indies (VOC).
In 1616 Schouten the Cape Horn crosses, which he thus baptized according to his birthplace, the Dutch city of Hoorn. It followed the coasts north of the islands of the New Ireland and the New Guinea, and visited several islands in the vicinity, of which those which are today called the islands Schouten.
Although it opened a new way of passage, the Compagnie Dutchwoman of the Eastern Indies carried felt sorry for violation of its commercial monopoly towards the archipelago of the Moluques. Schouten was a stopped time and its ship confiscated on the island of Java.
Schouten reported its voyages in its logbook, which was published in Dutch language with Amsterdam in 1618 then quickly translated in many other languages.
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