Collinson Library: TIMELINE of W.A. MARITIME HISTORY: 1700s Age of Exploration!

New Holland Castaways

"Between 1629 and 1727 four ships of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) are known to have shipwrecked on the coast of Western Australia. Over 300 personnel of those ships, and some from rescue parties, are estimated to have survived these wreckings. There may have been more survivors as three other vessels, that could have had similar fates, are still unaccounted for.(Click here for ships and survivor estimates.)"

Source : NEW Holland Castaways: VOC shipwreck survivors became Australia's first European settlers, n.d. V.O.C. Historical Society, accessed 21 March 2014, <http://www.vochistory.org.au/castaways.html>.

Australian history that has not been acknowledged in the past.

SOURCE: Secret History, excerpt fro Channel 7 programme, posted on YouTube 2010, Duration: 9:32 mins.

Wreck of the Zuytdorp

Presented by Dr Michael "Mack" McCarthy, Curator, Maritime Archeology as part of the In the Wild West Lecture Series in 2012.

SOURCE: West Australian Museum (2015, March 23). Zuytdorp Wreck.[Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F34rDth146E

Zuytdorp Country

The wreck site and land beyond of the VOC ship "Zuytdorp" in 1712, It is believed that the survivors inter-married with the Nanda Tribe.

SOURCE: Vanderveldt, T. (2009, July 4). Zuytdorp Country.[Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMz7PBrAas4

1712 The "Zuytdorp"

Zuytdorp from VOC Historical Society
Some time in June 1712, the 700 ton VOC ship , Captained by Marinus Wijsvliet, was wrecked on the Western Australian coast, called New Holland at that time, crashing onto rocks at the bottom of cliffs just south of Shark Bay. The cliffs are now called the Zuytdorp Cliffs.
Zuytdorp (Also Zuiddorp) (1712/06) North of Kalbarri
This is the only ship that needs permission to dive on in WA. Protected zone 500 m around wreck.
Zuytdorp 1701-1727
En route from Wielingen to Batavia with approx 200 passengers and crew, a rich cargo including 248,000 silver coins and general cargo. Hit reef and cliff-face, crew and passengers believed to have survived.
Zuytorp [ABC]
The Dutch East India Company's Zuytdorp came to a shuddering halt on Western Australia's remote Murchison coast between Kalbarri and Shark Bay, possibly sometime in June 1712. Unlike the four other Dutch and English East India Company vessels known to have sailed too far east and come to grief on the WA coast, no survivors from the Zuytdorp reached Batavia to tell the tale.

1772 Louis Aleno de St Alouarn

Louis Aleno De St Alouarn
From Voyages of Discovery

1791 King George Sound, Albany

Possession Point and Vancouver's cairn
Vancouvers Peninsula, Quaranup Rd, Albany, WA, Australia
From the Australian heritage database

1792 - d'Entrecasteaux reaches Cape Leeuwin

Antoine-Raymond-Joseph Bruny d’Entrecasteaux

1796 Colony at Swan River

Excerpts from Goran Wallin's A Reluctant Venture: The Swedish Colonisation of Australia
Two hundred and forty four years ago, while Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet were setting up their colony in New South Wales, a small Swedish fleet led by William Bolts arrived on Rottnest Island, claiming the Island for Sweden and King Gustav III before resettling on the banks of the Swan River a week later.