Dirk Hartog Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/dirk-hartog/ Mechanically-minded travel Tue, 06 Sep 2016 08:48:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Duyfken, Historic 400 Year Commemoration Voyage https://mechtraveller.com/2016/09/duyfken-historic-400-year-commemoration-voyage/ https://mechtraveller.com/2016/09/duyfken-historic-400-year-commemoration-voyage/#respond Tue, 06 Sep 2016 08:35:32 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=1732 The Australians are celebrating a maritime milestone. To commemorate the landing in Western Australia of the Dutch Explorer Dirk Hartog, the Duyfken Replica – a reproduction of a typical 16th century Dutch trading vessel – has begun a ten-week, 1000-kilometre journey along the Western Australian coast. Dutchman Dirk Hartog and his crew became the first […]

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