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	Dirk Hartog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dirk Hartog (1580—1621), the 17th Century Dutch sea captain and explorer, whose expedition was the second European group to land on Australian soil.
		Dirk Hartog left the employ of the VOC upon his return to Amsterdam in 1617, resuming private trading ventures in the Baltic.
		On October 25, 1616, at approximately 26° latitude south, Hartog and crew came unexpectedly upon "various islands, which were, however, found uninhabited." He made landfall at an island off the coast of Shark Bay, Western Australia, which is now called Dirk Hartog Island after him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dirk_Hartog (603 words)

	dirk - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Hartog, Dirk (lived in the 16th and early 17th centuries), Dutch explorer who made the first recorded exploration of the western coast of...
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		Hafnium was discovered in Copenhagen in 1923 by the Hungarian chemist Georg von Hevesy and the Dutch physicist Dirk Coster.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /dirk.html (110 words)

	Dirk Hartog Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dirk Hartog Island is the most important nesting site for loggerhead turtles in Western Australia, with Green and loggerhead turtles nesting on the beaches of Dirk Hartog Island and Peron Peninsula.
		Dirk Hartog Island, is an island off the coast of Western Australia, within the Shark Bay World Heritage Area.
		The island was discovered in October 1616 by the Dutch sea captain Dirk Hartog, who was blown off course while sailing from Cape Town to Batavia (Jakarta).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dirk_Hartog_Island (443 words)

	Eendracht (1615 ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was captained by Dirk Hartog when he made the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, in 1616.
		This article is about the Dutch sailing ship captained by Dirk Hartog.
		Hartog himself did not note anything which might be of use, making no further landfalls or contact with the Australian Aborigine inhabitants of the land.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eendracht_(1615_ship) (1083 words)

	DIRK HARTOG ISLAND - History
		Dirk Hartog has a unique place within Australia's European history, as it is the site of the first recorded European landing on Australian soil.
		Dirk Hartog Island has always been known for its amazing scenery and fishing locations but until Kieran took over, few people had had the opportunity to experience the Island first hand.
		Not much is know about the man who gives his name to Dirk Hartog Island but what is known is that he was born in 1580 to a Dutch sea faring family and probably went to sea at an early age.
	www.dirkhartogisland.com /history.htm (1354 words)

	Walkabout - Dirk Hartog Island
		Dirk Hartog Island is 80 km long, 14 km wide at the widest point, and covers an area of 62 000 hectares, Dirk Hartog Island really offers the visitor only one option.
		Dirk Hartog Island Station is still run as a sheep station, running 6000 sheep.
		Six years later Dirk Hartog sailed too far and landed at Cape Inscription on what is now known as Dirk Hartog Island on 26 October 1616.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/WADirkHartogIsland.shtml (1668 words)

	White-winged Fairy-wren (Dirk Hartog & Barrow Islands)
		On Dirk Hartog Island White-winged Fairy-wrens are widespread from the coastal dunes to the summit of the island.
		On Dirk Hartog Island nests are usually placed close to ground level in a well-concealed position within a small shrub.
		These two subspecies are listed as Vulnerable in the Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000 because Barrow and Dirk Hartog Islands are so narrow, and the habitat so uniform, that the populations are deemed vulnerable to catastrophe.
	www.birdsaustralia.com.au /birds/wwfw.html (260 words)

	Project\SwanRivr\European\hartog
		This was Dirk Hartog, a Dutch sea captain.
		(The largest of these islands is now known as Dirk Hartog Island.) Hartog spent three days examining these islands and when he left, he fixed a pewter plate to a post.
		Hartog was on his way to Batavia in Java, and he arrived by accident.
	members.iinet.net.au /~rchapman/SwanRvr/European/hartog.htm (164 words)

	20004245.html
		Dirk Hartog Island is named after the Dutch explorer who landed at Cape Inscription in 1616 and left an inscribed pewter plate nailed to a post - evidence of the first European landing on Australian shores.
		Dirk Hartog Island to be protected for all Western Australians
		Environment Minister Judy Edwards said Dirk Hartog Island had long been identified as a conservation priority for the State.
	www.wa.alp.org.au /media/0705/20004245.html (548 words)

	16704.txt
		Dirk Hartog and the crew of the "Endraght", though rough as became the hardy lives they led, had always shown a kindly disposition toward me. They would miss me, and speak of me perhaps, until, in the changing events of their adventurous career, I would be forgotten.
		CHAPTER V THE VOYAGE CONTINUED Dirk Hartog, convinced that he had discovered the continent known as Terra Australis, determined now to seek the gold and gems which this fabled land was said to contain.
		Hartog's surprise at seeing his old officer in such a deplorable condition was equal to my own, but the terrible change which years of solitude had wrought in Van Luck appealed to the humane side of the captain's nature so forcibly that he determined to give the castaway a chance of redemption.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16704/16704.txt (20564 words)

	LEGENDS OF EXPLORATION DIRK HARTOG
		; the supercargo Gilles Mebais of Luick; Skipper Dirk Hartog, of
		Hartog’s plate was found half buried in the sand over 80 years later by William de Vlamingh in 1697.
		Hartog continued his voyage to the Eat Indies arriving in Java in December 1616.
	www.flinders.com.au /legends/legendhartog.htm (304 words)

	Roughing It on the Australian Coast
		Dirk Hartog himself might have dismissed Nick’s predicament as a mere inconvenience.
		Such are the trials and tribulations of a budding adventure-tourism operator on Australia& westernmost sheep station, Dirk Hartog Island, 850km north of Perth.
		Contact: Dirk Hartog Island, 08 99481211, or Perth 08 93162959.
	www.finetravel.com /asiaaustralia/rough.htm (2533 words)

	Protected Areas Programme -
		The landing of Dirk Hartog on 25 October 1616 was commemorated by a pewter plate nailed to a post on the northern tip of Dirk Hartog Island, Cape Inscription (Doak, 1989; Fox, 1991).
		The seaward margin of this province terminates in a scarp 3-30m high and narrow sand beaches; Edel province which comprises Edel Land peninsula and Dirk Hartog, Bernier and Dorre Islands, is a landscape of elongated north-trending dunes cemented to loose limestone.
		Green turtle Chelonia mydas (E) and loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta (V) occur in the bay, nesting on the beaches at Dirk Hartog Island and Peron peninsula.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/sharkbay.html (4495 words)

	Deal to turn Dirk Hartog Is into national park. 25/07/2005. ABC News Online
		Western Australia's historic Dirk Hartog Island, off the mid-west coast, is to become a national park.
		"The primary purpose of the exercise is to restore Dirk Hartog Island as a national park and by doing this, of course, CALM can take away the introduced species that have caused difficulty and reintroduce some of the species that have been lost to the island."
		Hartog left an inscribed pewter plate nailed to a post as evidence of his landing.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200507/s1421930.htm (348 words)

	Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog
		Dirk Hartog Island is visible in the distance...
		a panorama from the cliffs on Dirk Hartog.
		A panorama from the very top of Dirk Hartog Island...
	www.mediavr.com /blog/2005/07/03.html (153 words)

	Hartog Dirk - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Dutch and French explorers were the first Europeans to sight the Perth area following Dirk Hartog's west-coast sightings in 1616.
		Hartog Dirk - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		He made the first recorded exploration of the western coast of Australia.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Hartog_Dirk.html (79 words)

	Hartog - personalcn.com Info About Hartog
		Encyclopedia subject: 'Dirk Hartog Island' (was discovered in October 1616 by the Dutch sea captain Dirk Hartog Dirk Hartog quick summary:
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		Dirk Hartog Island: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
	personalcn.com /prnl/hartog.htm (247 words)

	Shark bay - Early Explorers
		Dirk Hartogs landing site was revisited in 1797 by William de Vlamingh aboard the Dutch ship Geelvinck, which was searching for survivors from a missing ship.
		To record his visit for posterity, Hartog and his crew nailed an engraved pewter plate to a wooden post erected at the landing site, which is now known as Cape Inscription on Dirk Hartog Island.
		He anchored his ship between Dirk Hartog Island and Peron Peninsula and noticed the abundance of sharks at this location.
	www.sharkbay.org /terrestial_enviroment/page_17.htm (541 words)

	DIRK HARTOG ISLAND - Home
		Dirk Hartog Island is Western Australia's largest island and has a unique place within Australia's history, as it is the site of the first recorded European landing on Australian soil, in 1616 by the island's namesake Dutch captain Dirk Hartog.
		Dirk Hartog Island Homestead offers guests the opportunity to relax and enjoy the island's isolation and wilderness while taking advantage of the exceptional food and hospitality on offer.
		Dirk Hartog Island is one of Australia's most unique and remote eco tourism holiday destination.
	www.dirkhartogisland.com (482 words)

	Hartog - Madeleine Hartog Bell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ml leucopterus is restricted to Dirk Hartog Island which forms the western On Dirk Hartog Island White-winged Fairy-wrens are widespread from the
		Jan de Hartog (1914-2002) was an internationally renown Quaker novelist and Born and raised in the Netherlands, de Hartog moved to the United States in
		Hartog to De Vlamingh Exhibition with a collection of early charts, documents and books at the WA Maritime Museum's.
	findoutpages.com /?q=hartog (363 words)

	jones
		Dirk Hartog Island is located off Shark Bay, a large embayment located at the southern end of the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
		Dirk Hartog Island is composed of coastal calcareous sand which is extremely permeable and will therefore aid in wastewater disposal through the use of sinkholes.
		The proposed site for the farm is on the eastern side of Dirk Hartog Island in the middle of Herald bay with sea-cages set approximately 3.5km out from the site in a depth of 10 metres (fig.8).
	www.sihawaii.com /sydkraul/jones.html (3442 words)

	Dirk Hartog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dirk Hartog (1580—1621), the 17th Century Dutch sea captain and explorer, whose expedition was the second European group to land on Australian soil.
		Dirk Hartog left the employ of the VOC upon his return to Amsterdam in 1617, resuming private trading ventures in the Baltic.
		On October 25, 1616, at approximately 26° latitude south, Hartog and crew came unexpectedly upon "various islands, which were, however, found uninhabited." He made landfall at an island off the coast of Shark Bay, Western Australia, which is now called Dirk Hartog Island after him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dirk_Hartog (593 words)

	holland-australia; shipwrecks and discoveries
		Hartog followed that new route, but waited too long in turning north to Java, because of his error he chanced upon the west coast of Australia.
		On Hartog Island he attached a pewter plate to a pole to commemorate his landing on the island.
		Commemorating both his and Hartog's landing on the island.
	www.carijansen.com /ships/dutch_aus/dutch.html (989 words)

	Explorers from the 1600's - EnchantedLearning.com
		He landed in 1616 on a small island now named for him (Dirk Hartog Island).
		To mark his landfall, Hartog nailed an inscribed pewter plate (which noted details of his exploration and visit) to a post on the north end of the island; this area is now called Cape Inscription.
		Dirck Hartog was a Dutch explorer who was the first European to chart of the western coast of Australia.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/1600.shtml (2151 words)

	aslh 2002 conference report
		Dirk Hartog steps down as editor of Studies in Legal History...
		Both Dirk and I (and we suppose Dan) want to thank the Publication's committee, and especially its chair, Bruce Mann, for their judicious and most successful handling of the selection process.
		This year is Dirk's tenth and final year as co-editor of Studies in Legal History.
	www.h-net.org /~law/ASLH/conferences/2002Conference/aslh_2002_conference_report.htm (556 words)

	Dirk Hartog Island, Australia
		At Cape Inscription, where Dirk Hartog left that plate all those years ago, a lighthouse built in 1909 is the only sign that anything has changed in four centuries.
		Most Australians might well be able to trace their ancestry back to Holland instead of the United Kingdom, if Dirk Hartog had simply been better equipped.
		Alas, Dutch records don’t go into detail, but Hartog obviously had no idea of the quality of the water into which he was emptying the Eendraght’s marine potties.
	www.activeangler.com /articles/travel/articles/greg_milner/dirk_hartog.asp (1675 words)

	Shire of Shark Bay - History
		On October 25 1616 Dirk Hartog, Captain of the Dutch trading ship “den Eendraght,” landed on what is now known as Cape Inscription on Dirk Hartog Island, thereby becoming the first white man to set foot on Australian soil.
		Louis de Freycinet and Francois Peron surveyed all the inlets between Dirk Hartog Island and the Peron Peninsular, while Pierre Faure was sent to chart the Eastern Bay.
		He replaced it with another Pewter Dish recording his own visit and that of Dirk Hartog, Vlamingh& Plate is now on display in the Fremantle Maritime Museum.
	www.sharkbay.wa.gov.au /tourism/history.html (1368 words)

	Characters brought to book - National - smh.com.au
		Dirk Hartog, the Dutchman who came to Australia 154 years before James Cook, is in at last.
		Felix the Cat, Dirk Hartog and Mad Dan Morgan the bushranger now have something in common, reports Tony Stephens.
		So is James Matra, who came with Cook and who became a leading proponent of establishing a convict colony at Botany Bay.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/characters-brought-to-book/2005/12/02/1133422108649.html (544 words)

	Shark Bay history - shark
		To help the visitors understand the significance of these early visits to Shark Bay, it's worth noting that Dirk Hartog's discovery took place 152 years before Captain James Cook set out on his much publicised voyage of discovery to the Pacific and Australia's eastern shores.
		The first European landing recorded in Australia took place in October 1616 when Dutch Sea Captain Dirk Hartog landed at Cape Inscription on the island that now bears his name.
		Hartog's plate was rediscovered 81 years later in 1697 by another Dutch Captain- William De Vlamingh, who replaced the original with one of his own.
	members.westnet.com.au /mmdr/resort/shark.html (450 words)

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