Together with Dirk Hartog Island, this remote peninsula makes ... while Capes tells me about the medicinal properties of ...

On 25 October 1616, Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed on a long, narrow island off the Gascoyne coast in Shark Bay. To mark the 400th anniversary of the first Dutch contact with Western Australia, an ...

The mammals to be re-introduced on Dirk Hartog Island are being bred on the mainland for ... sodium fluoroacetate (the compound occurs naturally in a range of local indigenous plants), the baits are ...

Dirk Hartog Island, or Wirruwana ... The site is powered by a micro-grid, with a desalination plant to transform bore water into drinking water. Take in the clifftop views on the West Coast ...

Explore a stunning perspective of Dirk Hartog Island off the remote WA coast. FOUR HUNDRED YEARS ago, a Dutch explorer made landfall on Western Australia’s remote coastline at Dirk Hartog Island. In ...

Environment Minister Bill Marmion says the project will involve the removal of introduced plants and animals ... 63,000ha island. “Dirk Hartog is not only one of the world’s most important ...

(Supplied: Department of Biodiversity and Conservation ) Dibblers were the fourth species to be translocated onto Dirk Hartog Island as part of the Return to 1616 project In May scientists ...

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More than 150 years before James Cook claimed Australia for Britain, the Dutch East India Company captain Dirk Hartog became the first European to step on the country's west coast in 1616.

A replica of the inscribed ­pewter plate left by Hartog will be ­unveiled by Culture Minister John Day and Dutch representatives in the place now known as Dirk Hartog Island. The clifftop is a ...

THIS week marks the 393rd anniversary of the first known landing of Europeans on Australia's shores, at Dirk Hartog Island in Shark Bay. It will also start another chapter to the colourful history of ...