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- ↑ In Dutch patronyms ending in -szoon were almost universally abbreviated to -sz
- 1 2 Feeken, Erwin H. J.; Gerda E.E. Feeken (1970). The Discovery and Exploration of Australia. Melbourne: Nelson. p. 37. ISBN 0-17-001812-1 . Retrieved 10 July 2009.
