Qualla: Hartog Plate https://qualla.com/hartog-plate en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/r/hartog-plate-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hartog Plate https://qualla.com/hartog-plate Hartog Plate: Introduction https://qualla.com/hartog-plate/ Photo credit Adam Carr at English Wikipedia, Public domain. It is not a monument of bronze or marble. It is a flattened pewter dinner plate, the kind a sailor might eat his evening meal from, hammered with a nail inscription and left on a wooden post in a cliff-top fissure. Yet this plain object -- the Hartog Plate -- is the oldest known artifact of European contact with Australia still in existence, and its 400-year journey from a remote headland in Shark Bay to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and back is a story of decay, rescue, theft, loss, and improbable rediscovery.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/r/hartog-plate-wp/qe2r-hartog-plate-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hartog Plate: October 1616 https://qualla.com/hartog-plate/ Photo credit Adam Carr at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Dutch captain Dirk Hartog, commanding the VOC ship Eendracht on a voyage from Cape Town to Batavia, reached the northwestern tip of an unknown island on 25 October 1616. He was the first confirmed European to see Western Australia. Before departing two days later, Hartog inscribe...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/r/hartog-plate-wp/qe2r-hartog-plate-october-1616.mp3 0:06 2 full Hartog Plate: The Replacement https://qualla.com/hartog-plate/ Photo credit Adam Carr at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Eighty-one years of salt wind and sun had nearly destroyed the post when Dutch sea captain Willem de Vlamingh reached the island in February 1697. He found Hartog's plate, its inscription still legible, and made a fateful decision: he took the original, replacing it with a new pl...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/r/hartog-plate-wp/qe2r-hartog-plate-the-replacement.mp3 0:06 3 full Hartog Plate: French Custody and a Century Lost https://qualla.com/hartog-plate/ Photo credit Adam Carr at English Wikipedia, Public domain. In 1801, French captain Emmanuel Hamelin, second-in-command of the Baudin expedition, found de Vlamingh's plate half-buried in sand, its post rotted to a stump. Hamelin re-erected it and added an inscription of his own, along with a small Dutch flag -- a rare gesture of cross-nat...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/r/hartog-plate-wp/qe2r-hartog-plate-french-custody-and-a-century-lost.mp3 0:06 4 full Hartog Plate: Homecoming https://qualla.com/hartog-plate/ Photo credit Adam Carr at English Wikipedia, Public domain. In 1947, France returned the de Vlamingh plate to Australia in recognition of Australian losses defending France in two world wars. It is now displayed at the Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle, reunited -- conceptually, at least -- with the coastline where it stood ...

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