Hartog to de Vlamingh

The journeys of the early Dutch explorers of the 17th century are chronicled in this gallery. They include the Dirk Hartog Island Plates.
1606 Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken was on the first Dutch voyage of exploration of the Great South Land. He chronicled his sighting and reported his findings to the VOC in Batavia [now Jakarta].
1616 Dirk Hartog in the Eendracht, landed on Dirk Hartog Island in Shark Bay, WA. He left a flattened pewter plate nailed to a post. An inscription of the plate proved he had found this land in 1616 if he did not return home.
1697 Willem de Vlamingh led a party of 3 ships to chart the coastline of WA. He found Hartog’s plate on the island in Shark Bay. He replaced Hartog’s plate with one from his own ship, inscribed the text from Hartog’s plate and added his own inscription.
The original Hartog’s plate is now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,Læs mere