Dirk+Hartog

What role In 1580 Dirk Hartog was born and on October the 30th Dirk Hartog was baptized on the 26th of October. In 1616 Dirk Hartog was the first European to set foot on what now is known to be Dirk Hartog Island just north of shark bay in Western Australia. Dirk Hartog received his first command at the age of 30 and spent a few years trading.
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who is Dirk Hartog? Dirk Hartog was born on the 30th of October and burried on the 11th of October 1621, Amsterdam. Dirk Hartog was the 17th century Dutch sailor and explorer. Hartog's expedition was the second Europeon group to land on Australian soil. Hartog spent three days examining the coast and th nearby islands, he named the area Eendrachtsland. **

early history of Western Australia?

The first European to set foot on Western Australian soil was Dirk Hartogthe cov. Dirk Hartog was born at Amsterdam in 1580. Dirk Hartog was born in a seafaring family In 1611, a new sailing route that stretched across the Pacific Ocean from Cape York, in South Africa to the west coast of Australia This new sailing route took advantage of the powerful winds known as the Roaring Forties The winds were so powerful that it would blow ships, slamming them into the shores of the western coast of Australia.

This is a photo that has been taken on dirk hartog island. he was baptized on 30 October 1580 in the Oude Kerk, he was the second son and one of at least four children of Hartych Krynen, mariner, and his wifes name was Griet Jans. On 20 February 1611, in the Old Church, Dirk married with 18 year old meynsgen ables. They are known to have had any children. The island was discovered on october25, 1616 by the Dutch sea captain Dirk hartog.Dirk Hartog (1580–1621) was a Dutch seaman who spent his early career trading as a private merchant in the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. In 1615 he was appointed master of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Eendracht, and in January 1616 set sail with a fleet of VOC ships for Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia) to trade in spices and other goods.

Eendracht became separated from the fleet in a storm before reaching the Cape of Good Hope but continued on her voyage, sailing about 7,000 km east before turning north and setting a course for Batavia. But Hartog sailed further east than he should have. On 25 October 1616 he dropped anchor off what is now known as Dirk Hartog Island and landed – the first recorded land ing of a European in Western Australia. **

= //He sighed his name as Dyrck Hartoochz however he was known as Dirk Hartog. On the 23rd of October he was carrying, ten money pieces containing 80,000 real (pieces-of-eight), valued at about 200,000 guilders. He died// = // at Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1162 //