Aerial view of Beacon island in the Houtman Abrolhos before the island was rehabilitated and the fishing shacks removed. Beacon island was called Bata
Aerial view of Beacon island in the Houtman Abrolhos before the island was rehabilitated and the fishing shacks removed. Beacon island was called Batavia's graveyard by survivors of the 1629 Dutch shipwreck and was the location of many of the murders that followed the mutiny. (Note: these images are not shot through glass, the plane door is off). On June 4, 1629 the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Batavia struck Morning reef in the Wallabi Group of the Houtman Abrolhos before dawn. Survivors made it to nearby islands, but a subsequent mutiny led to the mass murder of approximately 125 men, women and children. The Houtman Abrolhos islands lie 60 kilometres off the coast of Geraldton in Western Australia. There are 122 pristine islands in three major groups; the Wallabi, Easter and Pelsaert groups stretching from north to south across 100 kilometres of the Indian Ocean.
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