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Dirk Hartog Island WA 6537
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The French whaling ship Perseverant washed ashore near here on 16 March 1841.
The crew stayed 10 weeks, five of them dying of scurvey in the meantime.
Eventually setting out for Java in four of the ship's smaller boats they were separated by a storm and only one boat with crew survived.
