Dirk Hartog Island could be home to a swag of ecotourism short-stay villas by this time next year under a plan to boost visitor numbers to the historic Shark Bay site. Up to 33 self-contained ...

VIVID Festival may be all about the lights, but one light artwork will celebrate how Australian history was changed when Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog (left) was blown off course onto the west coast of ...

On 25 October 1616, Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed on a long, narrow island off the Gascoyne coast in Shark Bay. To mark the 400th anniversary of the first Dutch contact with Western Australia, an ...

WESTERN Australia is marking the 400th anniversary of Dutch sea captain Dirk Hartog’s landing, where he left behind the oldest physical evidence of European contact with Australia. Hartog left an ...

A former pastoral operation in Western Australia is the location for one of the nation’s most ambitious conservation projects ever undertaken. Four hundred years after Dutch seafarers set foot on Dirk ...

DIRK HARTOG ISLAND, WESTERN AUSTRALIA -- A group of lucky tourists was in the right place at the right time last week, getting a front-row seat to a shark feeding frenzy off the coast of Australia.