First European Setting Foot on Australia Westcoast

Cape Inscription, Dirk Hartog Island, W.A.

On 25 October 1616, Dutch Captain Dirk Hartog struck land while on his way from the Cape of Good Hope to Batavia aboard the Dutch cargo ship "Eendracht". He left an inscripted plaque behind, named the place after his ship "Eendrachtsland" and continued sailing North to Dutch East India.
 
What Hartog had found was actually the biggest and western most island of Western Australia. It is now named Dirk Hartog Island and its northernmost point is known as Cape Inscription.
 
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