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Bisschop is a Dutch surname derived from bisschop meaning "bishop". It may refer to:
- Cornelis Bisschop (1630-1674), Dutch painter
- Jacobus Bisschop (1658-1697), Dutch painter
- Roelof Bisschop (born 1956), Dutch historian and politician
Usage examples of "bisschop".
The experimental voyager Eric de Bisschop added a refinement to his version of this theory by suggesting that the voyagers, on initial exploratory probes to the north and south and back again, noted that they had been displaced by currents in relation to the home islands.
Not so, however, the experimental voyagers Eric de Bisschop and Thor Heyerdahl.
De Bisschop decided to visit the north-east corner of the Pacific in this vessel.
Later de Bisschop tried out a sailing canoe of Philippine Islands type, with outriggers on each side like the Philippine Islands craft.
But if rafts with centreboards could sail upwind, de Bisschop argued, they could have conveyed Polynesians from west to east.
De Bisschop and his companions had to abandon the balsa raft and take to an improvised raft of water drums and timber.
After nearing various islands and then being borne away from them by changing currents and winds, the makeshift vessel was wrecked on a reef at Rakahanga in the Northern Cooks, where de Bisschop suffered fatal injuries.
De bisschop veroordeelde hem tot de brandstapel, maar zijn laatste wens was een maaltijd en hij stierf met een lach om zijn mond.