West Wallabi Island is an island in the Wallabi Group of the Houtman Abrolhos, in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of mainland Australia.
The Wiebbe Hayes Stone Fort on West Wallabi Island, the oldest surviving European building in Australia, built in 1629 by survivors of the Batavia shipwreck
Image: Wallabi Group (excluding North Island)
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 (50 mi) west of Geraldton, Western Australia. It is the southernmost true coral reef in the Indian Ocean, and one of the highest latitude reef systems in the world.
A bay in the Houtman Abrolhos
Aerial photograph of Rat Island (Easter Group)
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.