NOT SUBBED Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon lands on the Cape York Peninsula, near what will become the town of Weipa. Dutch explorers chart the west and north coastlines and name the island continent New Holland, but don't attempt to settle here. Later that year Spanish captain Luis Vaez de Torres travels through what will become the Torres Strait, after sailing between the northern tip of Cape York and New Guinea on his way from Manila in the Philippines. This is the first European-recorded navigation of the strait which separates the continent of Australia from the island of New Guinea.