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.

Hartog’s pewter dish Australia’s oldest European maritime relic is a Dutch pewter dish which was nailed to a timber post in 1616 on remote Dirk Hartog Island in Shark Bay (off Western Australia) by ...

and constituted the first recorded contact on Australian soil between the Indigenous people of Australia and Europeans. In the following decades, Dutch seafarers such as Dirk Hartog (1616), Abel ...

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