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The Dutch East Indies produced most of the world's supply of quinine and pepper, over a third of its rubber, a quarter of its coconut products, and a fifth of its tea, sugar, coffee and oil. The profit from the Dutch East Indies made the Netherlands one of the world's most significant colonial powers. [29]
Hessel Gerritsz' map of Australia and the Dutch Indies after the explorations by François Thijssen in 1627. In March 1622, the Dutch galleon Leeuwin, captained by Jan Fransz, mapped parts of the Australian coast between Hamelin Bay and Point D'Entrecasteaux. This was the first European vessel to round what is now called Cape Leeuwin.
The Dutch East Indies (1800–1949) — also known as the Netherlands East Indies, a former colony in Southeast Asia. The colonial predecessor of the present day nation of Indonesia and the Malacca state of Malaysia in Maritime Southeast Asia .
The bankrupt Dutch East India Company was liquidated on 1 January 1800, [65] and its territorial possessions were nationalized as the Dutch East Indies. Anglo-Dutch rivalry in Southeast Asia continued to fester over the port of Singapore, which had been ceded to the British East India Company in 1819 by the sultan of Johore. The Dutch claimed ...
Dutch East Indies: March 1942 - September 1945 Dutch East Indies (NL) Singapore: 15 February 1942 – 9 September 1945 Singapore (UK) Myanmar: 28 May 1942–1945 Burma (UK) East Timor: 19 February 1942 – 11 September 1945 Portuguese Timor (PT) :: Southeast Asia (subtotal) – New Guinea: December 1941 – September 1945 As New Guinea (AU) Guam
However, it failed. By 1824 Britain and the Netherlands agreed that the western half of the island would become part of the Dutch East Indies. Dutch New Guinea in the early 19th century was administered from the Moluccas. Although the coast had been mapped in 1825 by Lieutenant Commander D.H. Kolff, there had been no serious effort to establish ...
The Dutch, following shipping routes to the Dutch East Indies to trade in spices, china and silk, proceeded to contribute a great deal to Europe's knowledge of Australia's coast. [12] In 1616, Dirk Hartog, sailing off course, en route from the Cape of Good Hope to Batavia, landed on an island off Shark Bay, West Australia. [12]
In the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the Dutch heavily interacted with the indigenous population, and as European women were almost non-existent, many Dutchmen married native women. This created a new group of people, the Dutch-Eurasians (Dutch: Indische Nederlanders ) also known as ' Indos ' or 'Indo-Europeans'.