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''Leeuwin'' ("Lioness", also spelt "Leeuwine" in some Dutch East India Company (VOC) documents) was a Dutch galleon that discovered and mapped some of the southwest corner of Australia in March 1622. In this way it became only the seventh European ship to sight the continent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 2008-01-30 )〕 Unfortunately the ''Leeuwins logbook has been lost, so very little is known of the voyage. For example, it is not known who captained the ship. However, VOC letters indicate that the voyage from Texel to Batavia took more than a year, whereas other vessels had made the same voyage in less than four months; this suggests that poor navigation may have been responsible for the discovery. The same is suggested by the 1644 instructions to Abel Tasman, which states that The land discovered by the ''Leeuwin'' is recorded in Hessel Gerritsz' 1627 ''Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht'' (''Chart of the Land of Eendracht''). This map includes a section of coastline labelled t Landt van de Leeuwin beseylt A° 1622 in Maert'' ("Land made by the ship Leeuwin in March 1622"), which is thought to represent the coast between present-day Hamelin Bay and Point D'Entrecasteaux.〔 Portions of this coastline are labelled ''Duynich landt boven met boomen ende boseage'' ("Dunes with trees and underwood at top"), ''Laegh ghelijck verdroncken landt'' ("Low land seemingly submerged") and ''Laegh duynich landt'' ("Low land with dunes").〔 ==Australian reference to the ship== The south-west corner of Australia was subsequently referred to by the Dutch as t Landt van de Leeuwin'' ("The Land of the Leeuwin") for a time, subsequently shortened to "Leeuwin's Land" by the English. This name ''Leeuwin'' still survives in the name of Cape Leeuwin, the most south-westerly point of the Australian mainland, so named by Matthew Flinders in December 1801. The sail training ship STS ''Leeuwin II'', based in Fremantle, Western Australia, is named in honour of the ''Leeuwin'', although the ''II'' refers not to the original ''Leeuwin'' but to a yacht that was already entered in Australia's ship's register under the name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leeuwin (galleon)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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