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Captain Willem explored the Austrailian West cost
The Dutch East India Company ship Duyfken,under Captian Wiiem Janzoon,explores the western coast of Cape York Peninsula.This was the first re -
Captain Dirk Hartog leaves a plate on Australia west coast
Dutch captain Dirk Hartog in the Eendracht makes the second recorded landfall by a European,at Dirk Hartog Island on the Western coast of Australia.Leaves behind the Hartog plate.