Duyfken 1606 Traditional Geocache

The site of first recorded voyage to Australia. It is kind of fitting that this is my first Geocache hide.

The area is also home to two wrecked P47 Thunderbolts. These are found a little bit north of the point approximately 70m in from the shoreline.

Area is accessible either via boat or 4wd/quadbike along the beach

In 1606 the Dutch East India Company (VOC) sent the little ship Duyfken, captained by Willem Janszoon, to search for "south and east lands" beyond the furthest reaches of their known world. Leaving from Banda (Indonesia), Duyfken reached the Cape York Peninsula and charted 300km of the coast. This is the first historically recorded voyage to Australia. For the first time, all the inhabited continents of the world were discovered to the European science of geography.

Early in 1606 Willem Janszoon and Jan Roosengijn take Duyfken southeast from Banda to the Kei Islands, then along the south coast of New Guinea, skirting south of the shallow waters around False Cape and then continuing east-southeast until they reach and chart the shores of Australia's Cape York Peninsula.