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Dirk Hartog

1580 - 1621

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Dirk Hartog (Dutch pronunciation: [dɪr(ə)k ˈɦɑrtɔx]; baptised 30 October 1580 – buried 11 October 1621) was a 17th-century Dutch sailor and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land in Australia and the first to leave behind an artefact to record his visit, the Hartog Plate. His name is sometimes alternatively spelled Dirck Hartog or Dierick Hartochszch. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dirk Hartog has received more than 336,802 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Dirk Hartog is the 352nd most popular explorer (up from 354th in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 626th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Dutch Explorer.

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  • 47.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Dirk Hartog ranks 352 out of 405. Before him are Frank Wild, Clements Markham, Henri Duveyrier, Ivan Moskvitin, Edward Belcher, and Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón. After him are Louise Arner Boyd, Alexander Fersman, Gaspar de Portolá, George Kennan, Vasily Chichagov, and Sámuel Teleki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Dirk Hartog ranks 22. Before him are Matei Basarab, Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Carlo Contarini, Ustad Ahmad Lahori, Massasoit, and Thomas Middleton.  Among people deceased in 1621, Dirk Hartog ranks 27. Before him are Ottavio Rinuccini, John Berchmans, Hendrick de Keyser, Pietro Aldobrandini, Mary Sidney, and Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Dirk Hartog ranks 625 out of 1,427. Before him are Peter van de Kamp (1901), Jan Jacob Rochussen (1797), Martin Jol (1956), Zara Whites (1968), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), and Tylman van Gameren (1632). After him are Kick Smit (1911), Netti Witziers-Timmer (1923), Bas Jan Ader (1942), Ryan Babel (1986), Henk Groot (1938), and Maarten Stekelenburg (1982).

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Among EXPLORERS In Netherlands

Among explorers born in Netherlands, Dirk Hartog ranks 14. Before him are Anthony van Diemen (1593), Cornelis de Houtman (1565), Olivier van Noort (1558), Jacob van Heemskerck (1567), Alexandrine Tinné (1835), and Willem de Vlamingh (1640).

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