Henry Hudson was 'm voor in 1607, en het eiland is officieel door Noorwegen geannexeerd in 1929.
Lijkt me trouwens uiterst knap als daar al niet iemand geweest was. Vikingen, Noormannen, noem 't maar op.
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"Henry Hudson discovered the island in 1607 and called it Hudson's Tutches or Touches. Thereafter it was several times observed by navigators who successively claimed its discovery and renamed it. (..) The present name of the island is derived from this, the claim of its discovery by a Dutch navigator, Jan Mayen, in 1611, being unsupportable."
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