Editing Matthijs Quast (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Jan Janssonius - Japan.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Jan Janssonius]]'s 1652 map of Japan, incorporating the discoveries of Quast's journey and the discoveries and misinformation of [[Martin de Vries (explorer)|De Vries]]'s]]
Uninhabited, remote, and without known resources or harbors, the Bonins were entirely ignored by the Dutch East India Company{{sfnp|Kublin|1953|p=40}} as they had been ignored by any Spanish before them, permitting their rediscovery and colonization by the Japanese in the next century. Quast's expedition added some detail to Dutch charts of the southern coast of Japan but nothing vital or profitable;{{sfnp|Engels|2004}} it long lingered in complete obscurity until [[Philipp Franz von Siebold]] rediscovered its logs after noticing charts of Dutch islands in the area of the rediscovered Bonins.{{sfnp|Kublin|1953|p=39}} The final leg of his mission which he had been unable to complete was given to [[Martin de Vries (explorer)|Martin de Vries]], whose expedition explored [[Hokkaido]], [[Sakhalin]], and the southern [[Kurils]] in 1643.