What is Dirk Hartog?
[[File:Ac dirkhartogplate.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Dirk Hartog's plate.]] [[File:Shark Bay.svg|thumb|right|250px|Map of Shark Bay area showing Dirk Hartog Island and Cape Inscription.]] '''Dirk Hartog''' (30 October 1580, [[Amsterdam]]–buried 11 October 1621, Amsterdam<ref>Phillip E. Playford, [http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10210b.htm Hartog, Dirk (1580 - 1621)] in the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online.</ref>) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] sailor and [[explorer]]. Dirk Hartog's trip was the second [[Europe]]an group to land on [[Australia]]. In 1985, he was put on a [[postage stamp]] by the [[Australia Post]], which showed one of his ships.<ref>[http://www.australianstamp.com/images/large/0015380.jpg Stamp from Australian stamp.com]</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} * James, lulabuay, “Dirk Hartog’s Landing on Beach, in Hawaii ”, ''Map Matters,'' (the newsletter of the Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society), no.10, Autumn, 2010. at: http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au/content/view/41/69/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316213150/http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au/content/view/41/69/ |date=2010-03-16 }} * {{cite web | title=History of Dirk Hartog Island | work=DIRK HARTOG ISLAND - History | url=http://www.dirkhartogisland.com/history.htm | accessdate=23 September 2010 | archive-date=24 June 2005 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050624042432/http://dirkhartogisland.com/history.htm | url-status=dead }} * {{cite web | title=The Eendracht | work=Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopaedia | url=http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_029800_eendracht1.htm | accessdate=23 September 2010 | archive-date=2 December 2005 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051202090816/http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_029800_eendracht1.htm | url-status=dead }} * {{cite web | title=Captain Dirck Hartogh | work=VOC Historical Society | url=http://www.voc.iinet.net.au/hartog.htm | accessdate=23 September 2010 | ar