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1600s . 1610s in archaeology . 1620s

Other events: 1610s . Archaeology timeline

The decade of the 1610s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• 1616: Cape Horn, a sheer, 425-meter (1300-ft) high promontory, where the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean merge, is discovered by a Dutch commercial expedition.
• 1616: Dutch explorers map the Delaware River.
• 1619: Frederik de Houtman, in the VOC ship Dordrecht, and Jacob d'Edel, in another VOC ship Amsterdam, sighted land on the Australian coast near present day Perth which they called d'Edelsland.

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Other events

• 1613: The territory of Kuwait is founded.

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