Round 10: Tossup 2

Passengers on a ship with this name were tyrannized for weeks by a baby-poisoning mutineer after it wrecked near Australia’s Beacon Island in 1629. In 1611, (15[1])a navigator set an eponymous route to a city with this name which, (15[1])instead of hugging the east African coast, caught the winds of the Roaring Forties. An ex-head of state wrote letters from Kew Palace urging colonial officials to ignore a regime named for this word that was backed by the (*) Patriot faction. Overseas officials based in a city with this name extracted cash crops through the Cultivation System and appointed trading directors for Dejima. (10[1])This word names the state that became the first “sister republic” (10[1])of Revolutionary France through the Treaty of Den Haag. For 10 points, what Latin word for the Netherlands was the colonial name of Jakarta? ■END■

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