Together with Dirk Hartog Island, this remote peninsula makes up Shark Bay, or Gutharraguda in the local language, a UNESCO World Heritage site 500 miles north of Perth in Western Australia.

Due west across the bay, at the northern tip of Dirk Hartog Island, Cape Inscription marks the point where, on October 25, 1616, Dutch sailors became the first Europeans to set foot in what is now ...

While Indigenous Australians have inhabited the continent of Australia for thousands of years and traded with nearby islanders, the first documented landing on Australian soil by a European was in ...