Dirk Hartog
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Dirk Hartog (30 October 1580, Amsterdam–buried 11 October 1621, Amsterdam[1]) was a Dutch sailor and explorer. Dirk Hartog's trip was the second European group to land on Australia.
In 1985, he was put on a postage stamp by the Australia Post, which showed one of his ships.[2]
References
- ↑ Phillip E. Playford, Hartog, Dirk (1580 - 1621) Archived 2011-03-05 at the Wayback Machine in the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online.
- ↑ Stamp from Australian stamp.com. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
- 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/ Archived 2010-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
- History of Dirk Hartog Island. DIRK HARTOG ISLAND - History. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
- The Eendracht. Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopaedia. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
- Captain Dirck Hartogh. VOC Historical Society. Retrieved 23 September 2010.