An accumulation of oyster shells near the inland fort on West Wallabi island, it was constructed by Dutch soldier Wiebbe Hayes and other survivors of
An accumulation of oyster shells near the inland fort on West Wallabi island, it was constructed by Dutch soldier Wiebbe Hayes and other survivors of the Batavia shipwreck in 1629, it is the oldest European building in Australia. On June 4, 1629 the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Batavia struck Morning reef in the Wallabi Group of the Houtman Abrolhos. 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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