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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd

Madness, murder and rape on the Batavia: new theory on Australia’s most horrific shipwreck

Aerial view of islands surrounded by reefs and shallow blue water
Beacon and Seal islands, part of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, off the coast of Western Australia. Beacon Island is known as ‘Batavia’s Graveyard’. Photograph: Courtesy of Shipwrecks of the Roaring 40s ARC Project

An “evil” man took advantage of a shipwreck to lead a mutiny that caused the death of more than 100 men, women and children.

So goes the story of the Batavia, wrecked off the Western Australian coast in 1629.

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