Editing Dirk Hartog (section)

==Postscript==
In 1619 [[Frederik de Houtman]], in the VOC ship {{ship||Dordrecht|1618|2}}, and Jacob d'Edel, in another VOC ship {{ship||Amsterdam|1618|2}}, sighted land on the Australian coast near present-day [[Perth]] which they called ''d'Edelsland''. After sailing northwards along the coast they made landfall in ''Eendrachtsland''. In his journal, Houtman identified these coasts with [[Marco Polo]]'s land of Beach, or [[Locach]], as shown on maps of the time such as that of [[Petrus Plancius]] and [[Jan Huyghen van Linschoten]].<ref>Letter of Commandeur Frederik de Houtman to the Chamber Amsterdam, 7 October 1620, Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague, 982, 1620 II, fol147-151, fol.148r; quoted in P. A.  Leupe, ''De Reizen der Nederlanders naar het Zuidland of Nieuw-Holland in de 17e en 18e eeuw,'' Amsterdam, G. Hulst van Keulen, 1868, p.29, 32; cited in Frederik Willem Stapel, ''De Oostindische Compagnie en Australië,'' Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1937, pp.11 en 28.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Van Lohuizen |first1=Jan |title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|date=1966|publisher=Melbourne University Press |location=Melbourne |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/houtman-frederik-de-2201/text2845|access-date=15 June 2016|chapter=Houtman, Frederik de (1571–1627)}}</ref>

Eighty years later, on 4 February 1697, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] explorer [[Willem de Vlamingh]] landed on the island and by chance found the Hartog plate, which lay half-buried in sand. He replaced it with a new plate which reproduced Hartog's original inscription and added notes of his own, and took Hartog's original back to [[Amsterdam]], where it is housed in the [[Rijksmuseum]].<ref name=hartog>{{cite web | url = http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=105808 | title = Dirk Hartog Landing Site 1616 - Cape Inscription Area, Dirk Hartog Island, WA, Australia |access-date = 6 February 2014 | work = Australian Heritage Database - National Heritage List | publisher = Commonwealth of Australia Department of the Environment}}</ref><ref name=major>{{cite book|editor1-last=Major|editor1-first=Richard Henry|editor1-link=Richard Henry Major|title=Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of that Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook|date=1859|publisher=The Hakluyt Society|location=London|page=lxxxii |url=https://archive.org/details/earlyvoyagestot00majogoog|access-date=17 March 2018}}</ref>

In 2000 the Hartog plate was temporarily returned to Australia as part of an exhibition at the [[Australian National Maritime Museum]] in Sydney. This led to suggestions that the plate, considered important as the oldest-known written artefact from Australia's European history, should be acquired for an Australian museum, but the Dutch authorities have made it clear that the plate is not for sale.

In 1966 and 1985 Hartog was depicted on Australian [[postage stamp]]s, both depicting his ship.<ref>{{cite web |title=1985 Issues |work=Australian On-line Stamp Catalogue |url=http://australianstrampcatalogue.com/1985.php |access-date=25 March 2014 }}</ref> In 2016 the [[Perth Mint]] issued a {{convert|1|ozt|g|adj=on}} silver coin to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Hartog's Australian landfall.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dirk Hartog Australian Landing 1616 - 2016 1oz Silver Proof High Relief Coin|url=http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/dirk-hartog-australian-landing-1616-2016-1oz-silver-proof-high-relief-coin.aspx|website=The Perth Mint, Australia|publisher=Gold Corporation, Government of Western Australia|access-date=15 June 2016|archive-date=10 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610112132/http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/dirk-hartog-australian-landing-1616-2016-1oz-silver-proof-high-relief-coin.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The island in [[Shark Bay]], [[Western Australia]], where he made landfall was named [[Dirk Hartog Island]]. In Amsterdam, [[Canberra]] and fourteen other Australian towns, streets have been named in his honour.