Editing Dirk Hartog (section)

{{Short description|Dutch sailor and explorer (1580–1621)}}
{{See also|Dirk Hartog Island}}
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[[File:Ac dirkhartogplate.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Hartog Plate|Dirk Hartog's plate]] in the [[Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]]]]
'''Dirk Hartog''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈdɪr(ə)k ˈɦɑrtɔx|lang}}; baptised 30 October 1580 – buried 11 October 1621) was a 17th-century [[Netherlands|Dutch]] sailor and [[explorer]]. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second [[Europe]]an group to land in [[Australia]] and the first to leave behind an artifact to record his visit, the [[Hartog Plate]]. His name is sometimes alternatively spelled '''Dirck Hartog''' or '''Dierick Hartochsz'''. [[Ernest Giles]] referred to him as '''Theodoric Hartog'''.<ref name="twice">{{cite book |last=Giles |first=Ernest |author-link=Ernest Giles |title=Australia twice traversed: the romance of exploration, being a narrative compiled from the journals of five exploring expeditions into and through central South Australia and Western Australia from 1872 to 1876 (1981 facsimile)|volume=2 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington |year=1889 |url=https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/giles/ernest/g47a/complete.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222064926/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/giles/ernest/g47a/complete.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 February 2011 |isbn=0-86824-015-X}}</ref> The [[Western Australia]]n island [[Dirk Hartog Island]] is named after Hartog.