text: Dirk Hartog (1580–1621), VOC captain, charted mid-western coast of Australia
  Jacob van Heemskerk (1567–1607), captain of one of Barent's ships on his last fatal expedition
  Cornelis de Houtman (1565–1599), brother to Frederick, established Dutch trading route to the Spice Islands
  Frederick de Houtman (1571–1627), brother to Cornelis, charted several constellations in the southern skies, explored coast of Western Australia
  Willem Janszoon (c. 1570–1630), first European expedition to make landfall on the Australian continent
  Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585–1616), Cape Horn, 1616 circumnavigation
  Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, New Jersey (1614–1620)
  Olivier van Noort (1558–1627), 1598 circumnavigation
  Jacob Quaeckernaeck (1500–1606), reached Japan via Street of Magellan and Moluccas
  Matthijs Quast (died 1641), Japan, Bonin Islands, and legendary islands East of Japan
  Jan Rijp (c. 1570–c. 1613), saved remainder of Willem Barentsz's crew in 1597
  Jakob Roggeveen (1659–1729), First European to reach Easter Island Easter 1722
  Willem Schouten (1567–1625), Cape Horn, 1616 circumnavigation
  Simon van der Stel (1639–1702), explored South Africa North and East of Cape Town
  Abel Tasman (1603–1659), extensive voyages around Australia and southwest Pacific, discovered a.o. Tasmania, New Zealand and Tonga
  François Thijssen (died 1638?), charted 1,000 miles of the Australian South Coast in 1627
  Alexine Tinne (1839–1869), Sahara desert crossing
  Willem de Vlamingh (1640–c. 1698), Western Australia