Coen, Queensland
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Coen is a rural town and coastal locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. The town is situated inland, on the Peninsula Developmental Road, the main road on the Cape York Peninsula in far
Coen, 2012
Sergeant Whiteford and the Aboriginal trackers, 1898
Great Northern Mine's crushing statistics, 1905
Reserve huts, Coen
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
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Jan Pieterszoon Coen was a Dutch naval officer of the Dutch East India Company in the early 17th century, serving two terms as governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. He was the founder of Batavia,
Coen, Queensland
…the Shire of Cook. In 1623, Jan Carstensz, the navigator of the ship Pera of the Dutch East India Company, named a river on Cape York Peninsula after Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Today that river is known as the Archer River and the name Coen River is given to one of its tributaries…
Portrait by Jacob Waben
Monument to Coen in Hoorn
Explanatory text placed in 2012 on the pedestal of the Hoorn statue
Statue for Coen in Batavia