Boer Western Australia

Valdemar II

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Yesterday I was watching a program about the Dutch shipwreck Batavia, and there they mentioned that you could use a southen route to Indonesia from South Africa, that got rather close to Perth. So I was thinking what if the Netherland create a small Boer style colony near Perth? Something like a fort and a harbour where the ships could get water, with a few hundred farmer-settlers living around it to produce food.
 
The southern route was one of the things the Dutch used to beat the Portuguese. The Dutch could do a round trip in a year instead of arriving and then waiting for the monsoon to turn which usually took two years.

The Dutch did land on the west coast of Australia plenty of times, but the place is mostly a shithole and they couldn't wait to leave. Here is a 1659 map of what they knew of in 1644, and despite this knowledge they didn't set up any waystation or anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thevenot_-_Hollandia_Nova_detecta_1644.png
 

Valdemar II

Banned
The southern route was one of the things the Dutch used to beat the Portuguese. The Dutch could do a round trip in a year instead of arriving and then waiting for the monsoon to turn which usually took two years.

The Dutch did land on the west coast of Australia plenty of times, but the place is mostly a shithole and they couldn't wait to leave. Here is a 1659 map of what they knew of in 1644, and despite this knowledge they didn't set up any waystation or anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thevenot_-_Hollandia_Nova_detecta_1644.png

But are Perth really that much worse than the Cape?
 
It would be used less than half as much, ie only by the Dutch on their way out rather than by everybody in both directions, so it is intrinsicly less useful. It would have to be much better than the Cape to overcome this drawback.
 
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