Jacques l'Hermite
Jacques L' Hermite (* 1582, † June 2, 1624 in Callao de Lima) was a Dutch admiral and namesake of the Hermite islands near Cape Horn.
Life
Jacques L' Hermite was Rotterdam shipowner and merchant, such as the Dutch East India Company (VOC ) belonging. He is over the centuries as Admiral of the Nassau fleet, from 1623 to 1626 circled the world ( world tour ), and has retained its popularity with the naming of Isla Hermite (55 ° 50.5 ' S, 67 ° 40' W) near Cape Hoorn his " perpetuation " found.
The Nassau fleet was sent out by the States General and Prince Maurice of Nassau as an expedition against the Spanish in Peru. She ran with 11 ships (Orange, Haas, ( Wapen van ) Amsterdam, Arend, David Koning, Delft, Eendracht, Griffioen, Windhond, Hollandia and Hoop en Mauritius) and 1637 crew on April 29, 1623 from the port of Amsterdam. The ship of Admiral L' Hermite was the Amsterdam. On February 16, 1624, the fleet sighted Cape Horn in NNE. After two long cross strokes and any significant advance towards the west they ran into the later so-called Nassau Bay ( Bahía Nassau ). This L' Hermite discovered in the back cape Hoorns the northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific. From this discovery testify in the region, a number of geographical names. Besides the already mentioned Bahia Nassau and Isla Hermite, these are the Bahía Schapenham (after Vice Admiral, 55 ° 34 ' S, 68 ° 1' W), the Bahía Windhond (after a ship in the fleet, 55 ° 14 ' S, 67 ° 32 ' W) and the Bahía Orange ( after another ship in the fleet, 55 ° 31' S, 68 ° 4 ' W).
In addition to the geographical discoveries of the first encounter between Europeans and the Yámana (or Yaghan ) Indians made this journey meaningful. However, the meeting was extremely bloody, 17 men of Arend were killed by the Indians or captured.
After circling the southern tip of America's fleet Callao (Lima, Peru ), Guayaquil and attacked Pisco. Before Callao L' Hermite died, who was a sick man for eight months on 2 June 1624th He was buried on the Isla San Lorenzo, immediately before Callao. John Hugo Schapenham completed the circumnavigation of the globe and returned with a ship in 1626 to the Netherlands, while the other ships remained as a reinforcement of the VOC in Jakarta.