Dirk+Hartog

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 * [[image:25 disc left in Australia by a Dutchman.JPG width="444" height="363"]] || [[image:26 Explanation of 25.JPG width="492" height="332"]] ||
 * In 1616 Dutch ship's Captain Dirck Hartogh scratched some writing onto this metal plate and nailed it to a pole on a promontory on Shark Bay, not far from Carnarvon and Monkey Mia in Western Australia. || The plate, made of pewter, was replaced and brought back to the Netherlands by Willem de Vlamingh 81 years later. It is now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Photographs supplied by Eleanor and Charles Relle. ||