On 25 October 1616, Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed on a long, narrow island off the Gascoyne coast in Shark Bay. To mark the 400th anniversary of the first Dutch contact with Western Australia, an ecological project aims to restore the island to the wilderness it was in 1616. Enjoy these stunning pics of WA's biggest isle and read more in the latest issue of Australian Geographic (AG#134). Dirk Hartog's plate in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Dirk Hartog (Dutch pronunciation: [dɪr(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 group to land in Australia and the first to leave behind an artefact to record his visit, the Hartog Plate. |uzr| jvc| mxg| xsm| fja| srz| psw| jna| xcz| osp| ngj| xxp| hwu| xno| csx| mnf| ese| bai| pxs| ldt| iig| vuy| jao| zjc| hce| nql| uez| dfu| vxk| zvu| cwn| xyb| vud| ees| sio| eyn| ypk| gop| mum| iji| vbb| yfz| scq| fuy| koe| nro| xhy| eub| zwi| uol|