Dirk hartog explorer biography poster
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State Library of New South Wales
Today 25th October marks the 400th anniversary of the landing in Western Australia in 1616 by Dirk Hartog.
Dirk Hartog was a 17th century Dutch sailor and explorer. In 1616, Dirk Hartog, in the ship Eendracht, accidentally discovered what proved to be the west coast of the Unknown South Land while sailing northwards.At the northern end of Dirk Hartog Island—now known as Cape Inscription—Hartog’s crew erected a wooden post embedded in a rock cleft, and attached to it a flattened pewter dish inscribed with text about the ship, the skipper and the senior officers, and their landing. This is the oldest physical record of a European landing in Australia. However, Hartog was not the first European to encounter the Unknown South Land. Ten years before another Dutch skipper and VOC employee, Willem Jansz (Janszoon) sighted the northern coast of Australia.
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Dirk Hartog’s landing in Western Australian on 25 October 1616.
From Terra Australis Incognita to Hollandia Nova.
In 1606, Willem Jansz. in the Duyfken was the first European to see the north-east coast of Australia.
In 1616, a navigational error brought Dirk Hartog, master of the VOC ship De Eendracht, to the west coast of the South Land that European seafarers had never seen, though they suspected its existence. The land fryst vatten found on early maps as "Eendracht Land".
Several voyages of exploration followed in the first half of the seventeenth century.
In 1642 Abel Tasman sailed around Australia, after which the name Terra Australis Incognita was replaced on maps by Hollandia Nova.
400th anniversary of Dirk Hartog’s landing in Western Australian on 25 October 1616, celebrates the first Dutch contact with Western Australia.
Dirk Hartog
In 1616, VOC captain Dirk Hartog and his crew were the first Europeans to arrive in Western Australia.
Dirk Hartog was born in A
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