The proposal of the latter, in 1857, included the organisation of hourly observations at Batavia and the establishment of secondary stations at some places in the East Indian Archipelago ...

A former IBM manager reflects on a pivotal memory linked to the 1998 song All I Need by Air. The lyrics sparked a realization ...

The ship was laden with silver coins and carried somewhere between 320 and 340 passengers bound for the city of Batavia in present-day Indonesia, which was both the ship’s namesake and the ...

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Canberra (Australia) actively promotes Dutch-Australian international heritage ... As part of the allied opposition to Japan, the Royal Netherlands and ...

The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon ... In 1642, the Council of the Indies dispatched another explorer and merchant, Abel Janzoon Tasman on a voyage of exploration to little-charted areas east of the ...

The Koning Willem de Tweede was meant to do trading between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, a former colony that’s ...

A growing number of the world’s leading genocide scholars believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, according to an investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC. The paper interviewed ...

The Koning Willem de Tweede was meant to do trading between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, a former colony that’s now Indonesia. However, just before returning home, the crew picked ...

In just his tenth ODI appearance, West Indies' Matthew Forde produced a world record-equalling outing that left Ireland stunned and brought his name alongside the legendary AB de Villiers in the ...

Sixteen of the ship’s 25 Dutch crew drowned and were buried in the sand dunes of Long Beach, with the whereabouts of the vessel unknown until now. Australian National Maritime Museum’s acting ...