The wrecking of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia in 1629 is perhaps the best-known maritime disaster in Australian history. The subject of books, articles, plays, and even an opera, Batavia ...

The Batavia was built in Amsterdam but hit a reef off Western Australia and sank on its maiden voyage Researchers have determined where the timbers originated It helps build a picture of Dutch ...

Experts have used 3D imaging to bring the story of one of Western Australia's most tragic shipwrecks to life in intricate detail. The Batavia was wrecked at the Abrolhos Islands on its maiden voyage ...

Archaeologists have unearthed new evidence of a 400-year-old bloody battle on a remote Western Australian island. Franklin was pretty sure the skeleton was here because, in the 1960s, archaeologists ...

Before dawn on the morning of June 4 1629, the Batavia, a ship of the Dutch East India Company, struck a reef at the Abrolhos Islands, some 70 kilometres off the Western Australian coast. More than ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The wrecking of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia in 1629 is perhaps the best-known maritime disaster in Australian history. The subject of books, articles, plays, ...