- Pieter Nuyts
Pieter Nuyts (1598,
Middelburg -December 11 1655 ) was a Dutch explorer. He was a governor of Formosa, later known asTaiwan ,June 28 1627 tillMay 9 1630 .During his time as governor, Nuyts, along with his son Laurens, was kidnapped in the Dutch fortress of Fort Zeelandia by Japanese traders on June 29, 1629 in a dispute over tax. Nyuts was sent as a prisonner to Japan, and would only be released in 1636. The Dutch commissioner of
Hirado François Caron was also among the hostages. ["Asia in the making of Europe", p.459 [http://books.google.com/books?id=SqTQjve2VLsC&pg=RA1-PA459&dq=Fran%C3%A7ois+Caron+Nagasaki+Hirado&ei=xLfASLu5D5LkywTG7YmMDg&sig=ACfU3U3YdnzAqL2wOblFJhJiW3I3nyVSYg] ]The problem was resolved on July 5, 1629 with the Japanese being expelled.Fact|date=September 2008 Nuyts was relieved in 1630 by Hans Putmans, who served until 1636.Fact|date=September 2008
Nuyts was the third governor of the Dutch
colony in Formosa, based in the southern port of Tainan.Named after him is the
Nuyts Archipelago off the southAustralia n coast, which he mapped in 1627. He is credited with being the first European to make a sighting of this coastline upon the ship "'t Gulden Zeepaerdt", commanded byFrançois Thijssen .Notes
External links
* [http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/nuyts.htm Biography of Flinders Ranges Research]
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