Dirk Hartog Island is Western Australia’s largest island and known to the Malgana traditional owners as Wirruwana. When first visited by Dirk Hartog on 25 October 1616, the island was in …

Dirk Hartog (Dutch: [ˈdɪr (ə)k ˈɦɑrtɔx]; baptised 30 October 1580 – buried 11 October 1621) was a 17th-century Dutch sailor and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European …

In 1616, Dutch skipper, Dirk Hartog, along with upper-merchant Gillis Miebais, in the ship Eendracht, accidentally discovered what proved to be the west coast of the Unknown South …

Dirck Hartog was a Dutch merchant captain who made the first recorded exploration of the western coast of Australia. Hartog set sail from Texel, a port near Amsterdam, as part of a …

It was here in October 1616 that Dirk Hartog and his crew became the first Europeans to land on the west coast of Australia. Captain Dirk Hartog of the Dutch East India Company's ship, …

But Hartog sailed further east than he should have and made the first recorded landing of a European in Western Australia on 25 October 1616 when he dropped anchor off what is now …

The first plate, left in 1616 by Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog, is the oldest-known artefact of European exploration in Australia still in existence. A replacement, which includes the text of the original …

On 25 October 1616 Dirk Hartog became the first European to set foot on the shores of Western Australia, and only the second to record encountering the Australian continent. Landing on a …

When first visited by Dirk Hartog on 25 October 1616, the island was in pristine condition but it has experienced significant changes to its ecology since that time. Sheep and goats changed …

The Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog in 1616 made one of the first recorded landfalls by a European on the West Australian coastline. To record his visit for posterity, Hartog and the crew from the …