Dirk Hartog
Dirk Hartog (1580-1621) was a sailor and exploring Dutch whose forwarding made of it the commander of the second group of Europeans put the foot on the continent Australia N. It used a stratagem as proof of its passage: famous the Plate of Hartog.
Its name is not known with precision and is sometimes written Dirck Hartog , Dirck Hartog or Dirch Hartichs or even Theodoric Hertoge .
Born in a family from sailors, it accepted the command of its first ship at the 30 years age and spent several years in covered business transactions of success in the Mediterranean and the the Baltic.
He was then engaged by the Compagnie Dutchwoman of the Eastern Indies in 1615 and was named captain of the Eendracht (“Harmony” or “Unit” in Dutch) in a forwarding of a fleet connecting to the Netherlands to the the Eastern Indies Dutchwomen. All the boats left the Netherlands in January 1616 together but Hartog and its ship were separated from different by a storm and it only arrived at the Cape of Good Hope.
It set out again for Batavia (current the Djakarta), by using (or perhaps constrained) the winds of the howling Quarantièmes which had announced the Dutch navigator before Hendrik Brouwer like a faster road to reach the island of Java. October 25th, 1616, with approximately 26° of Latitude southern, Hartog and its crew had the surprise to see appearing a group of unknown islands. They accosted on one of the islands which is now known like the island Dirk Hartog at the entry of the Baie Shark in Western Australia. He was thus the second known European to have posed the foot on the Australian territory, the first having been Willem Janszoon.
Hartog spent three days to skirt the surrounding coast and islands. It called the place Eendrachtsland according to the name of its boat but this name was not used thereafter. Before setting out again it fixed a plate, now known under the name of “plate of Hartog” on a stake at the top of cliff. On the plate it registered some words reporting its history.
Estimating not to have more anything to discover, Hartog took again its road towards north while skirting the unknown coasts of current Western Australia then it moved towards Batavia where it arrived finally in December 1616, five months after the date envisaged.
Dirk Hartog left its employment on its return to Amsterdam in 1617 and took again its trade in the Baltic.
He died in 1621.
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