What did Willem De Vlamingh discover?

Answer 1

Willem Hesselsz de Vlamingh (28 November 1640, Oost-Vlieland - 1698 or later) was a Dutch sea-captain who explored the central west coast of Australia (then "New Holland") in the late 17th century.In 1696, Willem de Vlamingh commanded the rescue mission to Australia's west coast to look for survivors of the Ridderschap van Holland that had gone missing two years earlier. The mission proved fruitless, but along the way Vlamingh charted parts of the continent's western coast and as a result improved navigation on the Indian ocean route from the African Cape of Good Hope to the Dutch East IndiesOn 29 December 1696, he landed on Rottnest Island. He saw numerous quokkas (a native marsupial) there, and thinking they were large rats he named the island "rats' nest" (Rattennest in Dutch) because of them.