Cape York Peninsula of New Holland (now Australia) in 1623, after the first discovery by Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken in 1606, they then named the 'Gulf of Carpentaria' after the Governor-General, Pieter de Carpentier. References Western Australia: a history from its discovery to the inauguration of the Commonwealth by J S Battye (1924) Chapter 1. Much of the information for this article was provided by Mr Jaap de Carpentier Wolf, a descendant of Pieter de Carpentier. The source of the image of Pieter de Carpentier is "Genealogy of the De Carpentier familie of Holland by Edwin Jaquett Sellers, ,Allen, Lane & Scott, USA, Philadelphia 1909." The original oil painting of this gravure is hanging in The Hague in one of the buildings of the governmental heart of The Netherlands, the Binnenhof. 1580s births 1659 deaths Businesspeople from Antwerp Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies Gulf of Carpentaria 17th-century Dutch East Indies people 17th-century Dutch colonial governors Maritime history of the Dutch East India Company