AHC: Widespread Austrian colonization of the New World

Your challenge, is to have the nation of Austria achieve widespread colonization of the New World, with a POD no earlier than 1521, the year the Hapsburgs split into the Spanish and Austrian branches.

In order to achieve this particular challenge, Austria needs to have at least beyond a few settlements, which are permanent, and expanding.
 
Or Charles V and Ferdinand of Austria divide their inheritance differently, and Ferdinand ends up with Austrian Hereditary Lands and the Burgundian Inheritance. Perhaps Ferdinand and not Charles even was the Habsburg candidate for the Imperial election in 1519. Charles, though emotionally attached to the Burgundian Lands (he was born and raised there) would most probably prefer Castille-Aragon over Austria-Burgundy.
Now I think about this maybe Maximilian and Ferdinand of Aragon already make most arrangements for such a succession.

The ports of Flanders, Brabant (Antwerp) and Holland (& Zeeland) will be very useful to obtain these colonies, also with an early enough POD it also will be easier to get a decent piece of the colonial pie.
 
Maybe something like THIS? I'm not sure how generally plausible it is, but at least it involves a Hapsburg colonial hand-over.
 
Of course in order to do ANY serious colonialization, Austria will need a harbor to send ships from. Other then just inheriting Basque, they would have no choice then to fortify their holdings in what is today the northern part of Belgium, build out Ostend as a major harbor and hope the French to the west and the Dutch to the east don't just overrun the country while the Austrian army is busy fighting the Turks. So you can see a heavily militarized Flanders, may be extended into Zealand and other Dutch holdings to ensure control of the Schelde estuary and unobstructed access to the port of Antwerp. May be there would be some battles with France over the region of Dunkirk (which is nominally Flemish-speaking). But anyway, this being the late XVII, early XVIII century, the Austrian empire would still be 200 years late and would have to deal with the crumbs Spain, Portugal and France left over.
 
Well they did establish the Ostend Company in the Spanish Netherlands in 1722 to compete with the British, French and Dutch East India Companies. From what little I know of it the company was apparently highly profitable but was suspended as part of the quid pro quo with England for their agreement to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and later finally closed several years later as part of the terms of an alliance. One obvious solution would be for a similar company to be founded earlier so that it could stake its claim to some territory out East and be successful enough that bargaining it away wasn't an option. Alternatively if what became the Netherlands never becomes independent then you could see a Habsburg backed alternative to the Dutch East India Company, that would of course require them to be allowed sufficient freedom to develop as they did in our timeline.
 
The Ottomans are the biggest problem here, I think. Not having to fight the Ottoman Empire in several centuries of warfare would allow Austria to shift a lot of its efforts into colonisation.
 
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