Hoorn

Schouten named the cape "Hoorn," from his native city in Holland.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

At 5 o'Clock the weather being fair, and a light breeze at South, we weighed, but making little or no way against the Current, we soon came too again, in 28 fathoms, near a small Island not laid down in the Charts; Pulo Pare* (* Wapping Island is now known as Hoorn, and Pulo Pare as Agenietan Islands.

Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753

In the next eight years, eighty such vessels—the “fluitschip”—were launched in Hoorn.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

In the next eight years, eighty such vessels—the “fluitschip”—were launched in Hoorn.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

Until … in 1594, a Dutch merchant, Pieter Jansz Liorne from the town of Hoorn, commissioned a ship that was four times as long as it was wide and with a much flatter bottom than the usual ships.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

Until … in 1594, a Dutch merchant, Pieter Jansz Liorne from the town of Hoorn, commissioned a ship that was four times as long as it was wide and with a much flatter bottom than the usual ships.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

Until … in 1594, a Dutch merchant, Pieter Jansz Liorne from the town of Hoorn, commissioned a ship that was four times as long as it was wide and with a much flatter bottom than the usual ships.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

Until … in 1594, a Dutch merchant, Pieter Jansz Liorne from the town of Hoorn, commissioned a ship that was four times as long as it was wide and with a much flatter bottom than the usual ships.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

In the next eight years, eighty such vessels—the “fluitschip”—were launched in Hoorn.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

In the next eight years, eighty such vessels—the “fluitschip”—were launched in Hoorn.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011