# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-le-maire
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:51:10.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-le-maire"
name: "Jacob Le Maire"
slug: "jacob-le-maire"
description: "Jacob Le Maire was a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the Earth in 1615 and 1616. The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honour, though not without controversy. It was Le Maire himself who proposed to the council aboard Eendracht that the new passage should be called by his name and the council unanimously agreed with Le Maire. The author or authors of The Relation took Eendracht captain Willem Schouten's side by proclaiming:“ ... our men had each of them three cups of wine in signe of ioy for our good hap ... [and the naming of] the Straights of Le Maire, although by good right it should rather have been called Willem Schouten Straight, after our Masters Name, by whose wise conduction and skill in sayling, the same was found.”."
tagline: "Dutch mariner and explorer (c.1585–1616)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacob_Le_Maire_from_Antonio_de_Herrera_India_Occidentales.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1585"
deathDate: "1616-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.201876248259524
  historical:           20.97484133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump