On 4 June 1629, Batavia was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of small islands off Western Australia. As the ship broke apart, approximately 300 of the Batavia ' s 341 passengers and crew made their way ashore, the rest drowning in their attempts.

Sep 18, 2024 · Almost 400 years ago the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia wrecked near a small group of islands off Australia’s western coast. What followed remains one of the most bizarre and disturbing incidents in the European history of Australia. Of the 200 people who survived the wreck, only about 70 would still be alive three months later.

Mar 11, 2024 · The ordeal that followed the Batavia's wreck is a dark tale in maritime history. A group of mutineers massacred an estimated 125 people during a reign of terror that lasted until a rescue ship arrived from Batavia in September 1629.

Mar 10, 2023 · The shipwreck followed by the terror that was inflicted upon its survivors explain why the story of the Batavia makes it one of the worst maritime tragedies of the early modern era. In total, two thirds of the people onboard died or were killed.

Sep 12, 2024 · In the 1600s the Dutch-owned, Batavia, was shipwrecked off what eventually became known as Western Australia. More than 100 people died in the grounding but the carnage didn’t end there. What befell the survivors was sheer horror – anarchy, tyranny, madness, murder and rape, in a reign of terror where people were picked off one-by-one.

May 24, 2023 · In 1629 Batavia, a three-masted sailing ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, ran aground on a coral reef in the arid Houtman Abrolhos Islands off western Australia, which was then uninhabited...

On 4 June 1629, the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) ship, Batavia wrecked off the coast of Western Australia, in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands. In the chaos that followed, one man led a group of mutineers on a violent spree, assaulting and murdering over 100 people.

Apr 6, 2006 · The Batavia wreck site is located in the Wallabi group of the Houtman Abrolhos, a series of low reefs and islands lying about 65 kilometres off the Western Australian coast. Human skeletal remains of passengers and crew murdered by the mutineers were recovered from Beacon Island in the 1960s.

On the morning of the fourth of June 1629, Batavia was wrecked on Morning Reef, on the Houtman Abrolhos (Lat. 28º 29.422S, Long. 113 º 47.603E). She was the first Dutch ship to be lost off the west coast of Australia. Pelsaert recorded the shipwreck in his journal:

Carrying 322 crew and passengers, the 650 ton Batavia is one of the most infamous and historically significant wrecks on the Australian coastline. Wrecked in 1629 on Morning Reef in the Wallabi group of the Abrolhos Islands off Geraldton.