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The Pewter Plate That Outsmarted a Lost Dutch Galleon
The Pewter Plate That Outsmarted a Lost Dutch Galleon
The oldest written European artifact in Australia sat exposed to salt wind for eighty years after its maker walked away - while the ship that carried him sank with a cargo of coins. How did a thirty-five-year-old Amsterdam merchant end up nailing a pewter plate into a rock cleft on an unmapped coast in 1616, and why did that plate alone survive the fate that took his ship?
In this episode, we tell the recorded facts of Dirk Hartog's 1616 voyage on the Eendracht and the sequence of events from departure to the plate's recovery, focusing on…
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