Dirk Hartog Island should be on every 4wders bucket list, it is an off the beaten track adventure. He had 6 siblings: Maartje Pieterse Hartog , Maartje Pieterse Hartog and 4 other siblings . Dirk Hartog was a Dutch seaman born in 1580. Hartog explored Australia in the early 1600s and then continued on to Indonesia. The island, the state’s largest, measures 48 mi (77 km) by 3–7 mi (5–11km), has an area of 239 sq mi (620 sq km), and supports a sheep station. He was baptized in Amsterdam on October 30th, 1580. Period: Mar 1, 1611 to Dec 22, 1615. Anyone see a contradiction there? Surname Hartog. Origem: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre. On 25 October 1616, he landed at Cape Inscription on the very northernmost tip of the island. Named after him: Hartog Plate on Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia Fay Hartog-Levin (born 1948), American lawyer, consultant, and diplomat; François Hartog (born 1946), French historian Hartog and his crew aboard the Dutch East Indies Company ship Eendracht made their discovery accidentally, landing on the west coast of Australia on what is now called Dirk Hartog Island in Shark Bay. In 1985, he was put on a postage stamp by the Australia Post, which showed one of his ships. The island was named after a Dutch navigator who arrived in 1616 and nailed an inscribed pewter plate to a post at its northern extremity (Cape Inscription), which is now the site of a lighthouse. His name is sometimes alternatively spelled Dirck Hartog or Dierick Hartochsz. Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. Brett Cornwall is an actor, known for Dirk Hartog Island Unleashed (2012). hiscch@princeton.eduSubscribe to our events mailing list, © 2021 The Trustees of Princeton University, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus; Professor of History, Emeritus, Colonial / Revolutionary / Early National America, Committee for the Study of Books and Media, Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop, Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health, Environmental History, Digitization & GIS, The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North, Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age, Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870, American Public Life and the Historical Imagination. Libras. The VOC was established in 1602 to coordinate the activities of Dutch shipping companies in … Dirk Hartog was the first confirmed European to see Western Australia, reaching it in his ship, the Eendracht. In 1616, after inadvertently sailing off course, he arrived at western Australia and made the first recorded exploration of the western coast. Hartog set sail from Texel, a port near Amsterdam, as part of a Dutch East India Company flotilla in January 1616. Explorer. Dirk Hartog Island is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics.If you would like to participate, visit the project page. Hartog and crew made landfall on the island, now known as Dirk Hartog Island which lies off Shark Bay in Western Australia. In February 1611, Hartog married 18-year-old Meynsgen Abels at Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk (Old Church), the same church in which he was baptised. It covers an area of 620 square kilometres (240 square miles) and is approximately 850 kilometres (530 miles) north of Perth. Dirk Hartog Island is an island off the Gascoyne coast of Western Australia, within the Shark Bay World Heritage Area. Dirk Hartog's voyage in 1616 was the first recorded European discovery of Australia. Dirk Hartog was a successful Dutch private shipping merchant commissioned by the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC or the Dutch East India Company) as a ship’s captain. More October 3 Birthdays. For a decade, he was the director of Princeton University’s Program in American Studies. His name was spelled various ways, including Dyrck Hartoochz. Dirk Hartog (Dutch pronunciation: [dɪrk ˈɦɑrtɔx]; baptized 30 October 1580 – buried 11 October 1621) was a 17th-century Dutch sailor and explorer.Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land in Australia and the first to leave behind an artefact to record his visit, the Hartog plate. He married Meynsgen Abels He married 18 year old Meynsgen Abels. Dirk Hartog (1580-1621), mariner, was baptized on 30 October 1580 in the Oude Kerk (Old Church), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, second son and one of at least four children of Hartych Krynen, mariner, and his wife Griet Jans. Libra Explorer #5. They had no known children. Explorer.