Mijn naam is Justin Rietveld, 23 jaar en scheepsbouwkundige. Afgelopen zomer ben ik afgestudeerd aan de Rotterdam Mainport University of Applied Sciences in HBO Maritieme Techniek. Momenteel ben ik werkzaam als scheepsbouwkundig engineer bij Damen Shipyards.
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Maritime ties between the Netherlands and Australia date back to 1606, When Willem Jansz, Captain of the exploration ship Duyfken, made landfall by chance, mistakenly thinking he was reconnoitering the coast of New Guinea. Jansz was the first European to set foot on Australia’s east coast. But his reception in the Gulf of Carpentaria was less friendly because the navites – Aboriginals, as it later transpired, were less then keen on an encounter with strangers. From 1650 to 1817 the whole continent went under the name of New Holland.
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