Dirk Hartog
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". Archived from the original on 2012-03-18. 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. Archived from the original on 24 June 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
- "The Eendracht". Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopaedia. Archived from the original on 2 December 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
- "Captain Dirck Hartogh". VOC Historical Society. Archived from the original on 3 July 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2010.