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De scheepsjongens van Bontekoe (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: The ship Nieuw-Hoorn shows a steering wheel. Dutch ships in this age used a tiller.
  
  
• Factual errors: The name Batavia for the Dutch settlement on Java was first used on 12 March 1619 and in 1621 became the official name for the town founded by Jan Pietersz. Coen. Willem Bontekoe left Holland in December 1618 as captain of the ship Nieu-Hoorn. According to the movie, they did not encounter any Dutch ships on their return voyage to Holland on which they could dispatch Padde back to his mother. The Nieu-Hoorn caught fire on 19 November 1619 (so: not shortly after New Year, as suggested) and therefore the boys could not have known the name Batavia when they were stranded on the little island off the coast of Sumatra.
  
  
• Factual errors: Potatoes from the Americas reached Europe (Spain) in the middle of the 16th century. People were insecure of the plant because the berries are poisonous. It did not belong to the staple diet early in the 17th century (1618).
  
  

• Factual errors: Pineapples, also from America, were imported in Europe as luxury products. They were not indigenous to South Africa, were the ship's crew are eating them, and were not spread outside the Americas and the Caribbean until the 18th century.
  
  
• Factual errors: The flag of the Nieu-Hoorn shows the word VOC with an L, above the word. This L is the letter for the city Lelystad, the home port of the Retour ship Batavia, the ship used in the Film. It should have been an H, as the home town of the Retour ship the Nieu-Hoorn is Hoorn. Also Lelystad is a "Brand new" city as it's build in the 20th century from reclaimed seabed of the lake Ijselmeer (former Zuiderzee)
  
  

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