Batavia (1628 ship)
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Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company. She was built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the flagship of one of the three annual fleets of company ships and sailed that year on her maiden voyage for
Full-scale replica of Batavia
Survivors being transferred from the wrecked Batavia to nearby islands in the ship's boats.
Batavia's Graveyard, now known as Beacon Island, in the Wallabi Group, Abrolhos Islands
Massacre of the survivors
Houtman Abrolhos
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The Houtman Abrolhos is a chain of 122 islands and associated coral reefs in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia about 80 kilometres west of Geraldton, Western Australia. It is the southe
Batavia (1628 ship)
…of company ships and sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. 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…
A bay in the Houtman Abrolhos, 2006
Aerial photograph of Rat Island (Easter Group), 2006
Aerial photograph of the southern half of North Island, looking westwards and showing the seasonal fishing camp
Hessel Gerritszoon's 1627 "Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht" contains the first use of the name Houtman's Abrolhos in print.