![]() The discoveries of Carstensz along the Gulf of Carpentaria made in 1623 are not marked. As noted by Rodney Shirley: Five places are marked, corresponding to Dutch discoveries up to 1616-1619 takend from Hessel Gerritsz' manuscript map of the Indian Ocean of 1622. Hartog’s cartography remained in manuscript form for some years, in part, because of the VOC’s cartographic secrecy laws. By 1619 this name was applied in document to refer to all of Australia, a name used for the subcontinent until 1644, when it was replaced by “Nieuw Holland”. In honor of his voyage, he named the land “T Landt van d'Eendracht” (the Land of the Eendracht). After departing Dirk Hartog Island, the Eendracht sailed northwards along the Western Austrain coastline, all the while charting the Australian coastline. De Vlamingh brought Hartog’s plate to Amsterdam, where today it is on display at the Rijksmuseum. ![]() In the year 1616.” Hartog’s plate was found in 1696 by another Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh and replaced by another plate. Deputy supercargo Jan Stins, upper steersman Pieter Doores of Bil. Interestingly, Hartog left a pewter plate near the shore on the northern point of Dirk Hartog Island, on which he inscribed: “1616 On 25 October arrived the ship Eendracht, of Amsterdam: Supercargo Gilles Miebais of Liege, skipper Dirch Hatichs of Amsterdam. He landed close to 26º South, at what is now known as Dirk Hartog Island in the Shark’s Bay area of Western Australia. In 1616, Dirk Hartog, captaining the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Eendracht (meaning ‘Unity’), en route from the Netherlands to Indonesia accidentally went off course and encountered the west coast of the Australian mainland. While Willem Jansz had become the first European known to have discovered Australia in 1606, landing on the coasts of the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Queensland, the discovery of Western Australia was still another decade in the making. This exceptional map is the earliest printed map to show the recent Dutch discoveries on the West Coast of Australia. Rare separately issued map of the world, being the first printed map to depict Western Australia, first issued by Jodocus Hondius in about 1625 and engraved by Francis van der Hoeye.Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula.
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