Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht

"Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht" ("Chart of the Land of Eendracht") is a 1627 map by Hessel Gerritsz. One of the earliest maps of Australia, it shows what little was then known of the west coast, based on a number of voyages beginning with the 1616 voyage of Dirk Hartog.

The map is oriented with north roughly to the left. The top left of the map shows a river labelled "Willems revier, besocht by 't volck van 't Schip Mauritius in Iulius A° 1618" ("Willem's River, visited by the crew of the ship Mauritius in July 1618"). The identity of this river, now referred to as "Willem River", is unknown; it is possibly the Ashburton River.cite journal | first = Jan | last = Tent | year = 2006 | title = The importance of bygone placenames | pages = 10–11 | journal = Placenames Australia: Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey | month = March]

In the bottem left corner is a feature labelled "Hier ist Engels schip de Trial vergaen in Iunias, A° 1622" ("Here the English ship Trial was wrecked in June 1622"). This is possibly the first appearance on a map of the Tryal Rocks, the identity of which was not determined until the 1960s.

Other than these two features, the leftmost third of the map shows only a fairly straight, featureless coastline, labelled "'T Landt van de Eendracht, opghedaen by Dirck Hartogs met 't Schip d'Eendracht in October A° 1616" ("The Land of Eendracht", discovered by Dirk Hartog of the "Eendracht" in October 1616").

The middle third of the map has two main features. One, labelled "Fr. Houtman's abrolhos", shows the archipelago discovered by Frederick de Houtman in 1619, and now known as the Houtman Abrolhos. Although this map was not the first to show the Houtman Abrolhos, it represents the earliest known publication of the name.

The other feature, labelled "Tortelduyff" ("Turtledove"), lies slightly to the south (that is, to the right) of the Houtman Abrolhos. Now known as Turtle Dove Shoal, the name is thought to signify that the shoal was first discovered by the ship "Tortelduif", which is recorded as having arrived at Batavia on 21 June 1623.cite book | first = Jan Ernst | last = Heeres | year = 1899 | title = The part borne by the Dutch in the discovery of Australia 1606-1765 | location = London | publisher = Luzac & co. | edition = [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0501231h.html Project Gutenberg of Australia edition] ] Gerritsz's 1627 "Caert" is the earliest known map to show this feature.

The rightmost third of the map shows a section of coastline labelled "'t Landt van de Leeuwin beseylt A° 1622 in Maert." ("Land made by the ship Leeuwin in March 1622.") This is thought to represent the coast between present-day Hamelin Bay and Point D’Entrecasteaux.cite web | url = http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/southland/voyages-1622_Leeuwin.html | accessdate = 2008-01-30 | title = Voyages - 1622 - Leeuwin | work = South Land to New Holland : Dutch chartin of Australia 1606–1756 | publisher = National Library of Australia] Portions of this coastline are labelled "Duynich landt boven met boomen ende boseage" ("Dunes with trees and underwood at top"), "Laegh ghelijck verdroncken landt" ("Low land seemingly submerged") and "Laegh duynich landt" ("Low land with dunes"). This section of coastline is significant because the "Leeuwin"'s log book is lost, and very little is known of this ship's voyage, other than what is revealed by this map.

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