The Carpentier River, on the
Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoiled wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth’s last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupació ...
in Queensland, Australia was named in honour of
Pieter de Carpentier
Pieter de Carpentier (19 February 1586 – 5 September 1659) was a Dutch administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who served as Governor-General there from 1623 to 1627. The Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia is named after him. ...
, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. The name was conferred by
Jan Carstenszoon
Jan Carstenszoon or more commonly Jan Carstensz In Dutch patronyms ending in -szoon were almost universally abbreviated to -sz was a 17th-century Dutch explorer. In 1623, Carstenszoon was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to lead an e ...
in 1623.
The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606–1765
J. E. Heeres. 1894. There is now no river in Northern Queensland with that name. See the entry for Pennefather River
The Pennefather River is a river located on the western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.
Location and features
Formed by the confluence of a series of waterways including the Fish Creek in the Port Musgrave Aggregation ...
for details.
See also
* List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of Far North Queensland
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