Tamala Steep Point track WA

See Dirk Hartog Is a little to the North.. www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2016/10/creation-of-... museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/roaring-40s/Zuyt... Zuytdorp (1712) On 1 August 1711, Zuytdorp (also Zuiddorp, meaning ‘South village’) departed from the Netherlands to the trading port of Batavia. It never arrived. No search was undertaken as there was no clue to where the ship was lost and the crew was never heard from again. Hints of a Shipwreck In 1834, Aborigines told a farmer near the recently colonised Perth about a wreck some distance to the North. With references to a wreck and coins on the beach, details strongly point to the Zuytdorp, however the colonists presumed it was a recent wreck and sent rescue parties who failed to find it nor any survivors. In 1927 wreckage, mainly coins (some dated 1711), bottle fragments, timbers including a spar, carved female figure, breech blocks from swivel guns and other objects including evidence of a deliberately lit fire, were seen atop and at the foot of cliffs on the coast mid way between Tamala and Murchison House Stations on the mid-west coast. In 1954 following advice from Tamala Station head stockman Tom Pepper, a geologist Phillip Playford travelled to the site and viewed the site that had been seen by Pepper (a European who had married Lurlie Mallard an Aboriginal woman). His Aboriginal family including Lurlie, her sister Ada and her husband Ernest Drage had also seen wreck material. The remains indicated that some survivors came ashore from an unknown wreck. See my Mapped images, around the World and #roundAustraliawithSpelio.... the-map-group.top/people/spelio/