Editing Willem de Vlamingh (section)

== Early life ==
Willem de Vlamingh was born in [[Oost-Vlieland]] in the [[Dutch Republic]]. He was baptised on 28 November 1640. In 1664, de Vlamingh sailed to [[Novaya Zemlya]] and discovered Jelmerland.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hacquebord|first1=Louwrens|editor1-last=Nuttall|editor1-first=Mark|title=Encyclopedia of the Arctic|date=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136786808|pages=2140–2141|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Swr9BTI_2FEC&pg=PA2140|chapter=Vlamingh, Willem de}}</ref>{{sfnp | Witsen |1705 |p= }}{{page needed |date=April 2025}} In 1668, he married; his profession was skipper in [[whaling]], and he still lived on the island [[Vlieland]].<ref>[https://stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl/archieven/archiefbank/indexen/ondertrouwregisters/zoek/query.nl.pl?i1=1&v1=w*&a1=vlaming*&x=20&z=b# City Archives Amsterdam]</ref>{{full short|date=December 2019}} In 1687, he and his wife sold their "apartment" in the [[Jordaan]].<ref>[https://stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl/archieven/archiefbank/indexen/transportakten_voor_1811/zoek/query.nl.pl?i1=1&v1=W*&a1=vlaming&x=14&z=b# City Archives Amsterdam]</ref>

De Vlamingh joined the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) in 1688, and made his first voyage to [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]] in the same year. Following a second voyage, in 1694, he was asked, on request of [[Nicolaes Witsen]], to mount an expedition to search for the {{ship||Ridderschap van Holland|1681|2}}, a VOC capital ship that was lost with 325 passengers and crew on its way to Batavia in 1694. VOC officials believed it might have run aground on the western coast of Australia.