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A bit of background about Willem Schouten

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Willem Schouten is a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was born in 1567, Hoorn, Netherlands and died in 1625, Antongil Bay, Madagascar. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific Ocean. 

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