Pieter van der Aa is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Pieter van der Aa as Dutch cartographer (1659-1733).
Pieter van der Aa was born at Leiden in 1659. His recorded nationality is Dutch Republic.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as printer, publisher and bookseller.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Pieter van der Aa died in 1733, aged 74. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as printer, publisher and bookseller
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