AS a history undergraduate, may I pleased be allowed to correct the letter from Mr J R Yeoman (Letters, October 4)?

He says that the Dutch in 1595 discovered the continent of Australia.

Actually, he has got the date wrong. It wasn't until 1606 that the Dutch East India Company sent the fast, lightly-armed ship Duyfken, captained by one Willem Janszoon, to search for lands beyond the known world.

This is in fact the first historically recorded voyage east to Australia.

Aled Jones,

Mount Crescent, Bridlington.

Updated: 09:46 Saturday, October 08, 2005